Must-see attractions in Trento

  • Castello del Buonconsiglio

    Trento

    Guarded by hulking fortifications, this massive edifice was home to Trento's bishop-princes until Napoleon's arrival in 1801. Enclosed within is the…

  • MUSE

    Trento

    A stunning modernist architectural work, courtesy of Renzo Piano, houses this 21st-century science museum and cleverly echoes the local landscape…

  • Museo Diocesano Tridentino

    Trento

    Sitting alongside the duomo, this former bishop's residence dates from the 11th century. It now houses one of Italy's most important ecclesiastical…

  • Villa Margon

    Trento

    Built by a Venetian family as a summer house in the 1540s, this villa 7km southwest of Trento is one of Trentino's most beautiful historic sites. Frescoes…

  • Duomo

    Trento

    Once host to the Council of Trent, this dimly lit Romanesque cathedral displays fragments of medieval frescoes inside its transepts. Two colonnaded…

  • Piazza del Duomo

    Trento

    Trento's heart is this busy yet intimate piazza, dominated, of course, by the duomo, but also host to the Fontana del Nettuno, a flashy late-baroque…

  • Galleria Civica di Trento

    Trento

    This city gallery/project space is the Trento campus of the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto and focuses on 20th-century and…

  • Giardino Botanico Alpino

    Trento

    This is one of the oldest and largest gardens in the Alps; more than 2000 species of rare high-altitude plants are nurtured in this beautiful, fragile…

  • Fontana del Nettuno

    Trento

    In the centre of Piazza del Duomo is the town's beloved if rather unlikely Fontana del Nettuno, a splashing 18th-century fountain dedicated to the trident…

  • Case Cazuffi-Rella

    Trento

    Frescoes decorate the facades of two private Renaissance houses, known as the Case Cazuffi-Rella, on Piazza Duomo's northern side.

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