Trento area
From Ponte San Lorenzo, near Trento bus station, the cable car runs to the town of SARDAGNA on the slope of the mighty Monte Bondone massif. There are a number of houses here, which are mostly Trentino, in winter you can go skiing; Camping Mezavia in summer (• 0461/47478) located two hours from the top station of the cable car, it competes with a campsite by the river. As popular with the locals as Sardagna are the more southern resorts LAVARONE and FOLGARIA, but for those who come from far away, the higher and steeper peaks of the mountains will be more attractive.
South of Trento, the railway line runs along the scree slopes of the Adige Valley, where the monotony is broken only by rare railway platforms and fortifications of castles or fortresses from World War I. One of the few castles restored and open to visitors is Castel Beseno. It lies on a rocky hill above the village of CALLIANO, in the distance 9 kilometres north of Rovereto.
Rovereto and Monte Pasubio
ROVERETO is the largest city between Trento and Verona. From Trento to Rovereto you can go by train (towards the south) 50 Minutes. In the FIFTEENTH century. Rovereto was a forward outpost of the Venetian Empire. From this period comes the gilded lion st.. Brand, located above the gate leading to the old part of the city. Also in the fifteenth century. this part of the castle was added, which is now the Museo della Guerra (VIII codz. 8.00-19.00; in summer 8.00-12.00 and 14.00-19.00; in winter 9.00-12.00 and 14.00-18.00).
On the other hand, in one of the dark stone streets of the old town is the Museo Depero (9.00-12.00 and 14.00-19.00; Free entrance), containing an overview of futuristic art - from Fortunato Depero advertising projects (m.in. Campari posters) for semi-abstract works. More conventional exhibits are complemented by cassettes and scenes with commentary, among them the deeply reflecting image of the New York City subway.
Some of the bloodiest battles of World War I took place around the Monte Pasubio massif, located southeast of Rovereto. On the recently created Peace Trail (Senliero della Pace), along the former front line, from the Órtles Mountains in the east to the Marmolada Range in the west, you can still find the remnants of barbed wire today and find old bullets. Hostile armies forged their fortresses in the rock and cut tunnels in the glaciers, but such protection against enemy fire did not guarantee safety during one of the harshest winters of the century; in 1916 year, from avalanches were killed over 10 Thousand. soldiers. The famous British historian G.M. Trevelyan, in this campaign commander of the British Red Cross rescue unit, described one of these fortresses: „[…]four floors of the gallery, one above the other, each had cannons and machine guns. There were also wooden machines with a medieval appearance, designed to throw avalanches of stones into the gully, if the opponent decides to climb […]. Our work was focused, of course, at the foot of the so-called. teleferiche, that is, overhead queues, that supplied these amazing rock citadels, and the sick and wounded in special cages were lowered by ropes into a chasm of several hundred meters”. The Campana dei Caduti bell, melted from a former cannon, rings every evening from the Colle di Miravalle outside the city in memory of the victims on both sides.