Tourist guide of Italy
Trento

museums and galleries  cathedrals and churches  castles and fortress  buildings and historical squares  monuments  
 

Capital of the Trentino-Alto Adige region, Trento is famous worldwide to be the first headquarters of the Council of Trento, 1534-63, in which the Catholic Church sat down important guidelines as, for example, the number of sacraments or that the only interpretation of the valid Bible was that of the Church.

 
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useums and galleries
 
  • Museo Diocesano
    • Located in Palazzo Pretorio of the XIII century it houses, among other works, a Sacramentario otoniano of the XI century, seven flamenco tapestries of the XVI century, fabrics in Brussels, statues and wooden carved altars of the XIV-XV centuries.

  • Museo Provinciale di Arte
    • Located in Palace Great sample archaeological collections, sacred objects, codexes, currencies and paintings.

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athedrals and churches
 
  • Duomo
    • Built in the XII and XIII centuries and dedicated to San Vigilio. It is a románico-Gothic imposing building that has as peculiarity a high small battlemented castle on the apse, Castelletto Merlato, of the XIII century, with a steeple of the XVI century. In the interior funeral monuments is come, remains of fresh of the XIII-XV centuries, the wooden crucifix before which the famous ordinances of the Council of Trento were promulgated in the years 1534-1563 and the crypt with remains of a basilica paleocristiana of the century VI.

  • San Lorenzo
    • Church of style románico that dates of the XII century.

      Santa Maria Maggiore

      Built in the year 1520 in Renaissance style with vain steeple of three, a choir of marble of 1534 and an altarpiece of G. B. Moroni of the year 1540.

  • San Apollinare
    • Románico-Gothic church that dates of the XIV century.

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astles and fortress
 
  • Castello del Buonconsiglio
    • It contains several buildings surrounded by a wall and that formerly outside the residence of the princes bishops. Castelvecchio.

  • Castelvecchio
    • Restored in 1475 following the Gothic Venetian style Together to the castle the Big Tower is.

  • Torri delle Muraglie
    • Of the old wall of the XIII century they still stay the Green Tower and the Tower Vanga. The Big tower is together to Castelvecchio.

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uildings and historical squares
 
  • Piazza del Duomo
    • When leaving Duomo the square of the same name it is located in the one that can be admired the Source of Neptune, of the XVIII century, the Houses Cazuffi of the XVI century whose facades were painted by Fogolino in the year 1530 and Palazzo Pretorio that dates of the XIII century in which the Diocesan Museum is located.

  • Casas Cazuffi
    • Buildings that flank the square of Duomo. They date of XVI century and they highlight for their facades painted by Fogolino in the year 1530.

  • Palazzo Sardagna
    • The palace that welcomes to the Museum Tridentino of Natural Sciences.

  • Palazzo Galasso
    • Building of Baroque style, popularly the devil's" call and built in the year 1602.

  • Magno Palazzo
    • Lifted in the year 1536, according to the cánones of the Renaissance style, with fresh of Dossi, Romanino and Fogolino and it welcomes to the Provincial Museum of Art with archaeological collections, sacred objects, codexes, currencies and paintings.

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onuments
 
  • Monumento a Cesare Batisti
    • Risen in the year 1935 in the place that it offers a beautiful panoramic of the city.

  • Monumento a Dante
    • This famous monument, work of Zocchi, it was built in the year 1896 and located in the Public Garden.