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Country
  
Italy

Elevation
  
204 m (669 ft)

Province
  
Trentino

Province / Metropolitan city
  
Trentino (TN)

Demonym(s)
  
Roveretani

Postal code
  
38068

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Region
  
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol

Frazioni
  
Borgo Sacco, Lizzana, Lizzanella, Marco, Mori Stazione, Noriglio, San Giorgio, Santa Maria, Sant'Ilario

Weather
  
15°C, Wind S at 8 km/h, 78% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Museo Storico Italiano d, Museo civico di Rovereto, Castle of Rovereto, Casa d'Arte Futurista Depero, Lago di Cei

Rovereto [roveˈreːto] - Rofreit in German - ("wood of Cornish oaks") is a city and comune in Trentino in northern Italy, located in the Vallagarina valley of the Adige River.

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Map of 38068 Rovereto, Province of Trento, Italy

History

Rovereto was an ancient fortress town standing at the frontier between the bishopric of Trento – an independent state until 1797 – and the republic of Venice, and later between Austrian Tyrol and Italy.

Geography

Rovereto is east of Riva del Garda (at the north-western corner of Lake Garda). The town is located at the southern edge of the Italian Alps, near the Dolomites. It is bordered by Monte Cengialto (686m above sea level) to the est.

Main sights

  • The castle, built by the counts of Castelbarco in the 13th–14th centuries, and later enlarged by the Venetians during their rule of Rovereto.
  • The Italian War museum (Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra) is located inside the castle. The Italian War Museum was founded in 1921 in remembrance of the First World War and in it are preserved arms and documents relating to wars from the 16th to the 20th centuries.
  • The mighty bell Maria Dolens, one of the largest outside Russia and East Asia, and the second-largest swinging bell in the world after the St. Peter's Bell of the Cologne Cathedral. Maria Dolens ("the grieving Virgin Mary") was built under the inspiration of a local priest, between 1918 and 1925, to commemorate the fallen in all wars, and to this day it sounds for the dead every day. Originally a patriotic rather than pacifist idea, it is today regarded as a shrine to peace.
  • MART, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto offers temporary exhibitions, educational activities, and has a remarkable permanent collection.

    • In the area of Lavini di Marco footprints of dinosaurs have been found. The species have been identified as the herbivorous Camptosaurus and carnivorous Dilophosaurus.

    Marco also hosts a large landslide which was mentioned by Dante Alighieri in his Divina Commedia: "Qual è quella ruina che nel fianco di qua da Trento l'Adice percosse, o per tremoto o per sostegno manco" (Inferno, canto XII).

    Economy

    In the past Rovereto was an important centre for the manufacture of silk fabrics. Currently, wine, rubber, chocolate, glasses and coffee are the town's main businesses.

    Rovereto is the birthplace (1941) of Sferoflex eyeglasses, now taken over by Luxottica. Other relevant companies located in Rovereto are Marangoni Pneumatici, Sandoz Industrial Products Spa, Cioccolato Cisa, and Metalsistem.

    Transport

    Rovereto railway station, opened in 1859, forms part of the Brenner railway, which links Verona with Innsbruck.

    Notable people

  • Armando Aste (born 6 January 1926), influential Italian alpinist of the postwar period
  • Gaspare Antonio Cavalcabò Baroni (1682–1759) Baroque painter
  • Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), artist
  • Valerio Fioravanti (born 28 March 1958), founder of the neo-fascist terrorist group Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari
  • Maria Pia Gardini (1936–2012), entrepreneur and critic of Scientology
  • Marco Martinelli (born 1965), a former volleyball player who earned 155 caps for the Italy men's national volleyball team
  • Massimo Parziani (born 1992), Motorcycle racer
  • Giuliano Pontara (born 1933), professor of philosophy, Stockholm University
  • Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (1797–1855), priest and philosopher
  • Paolo Seganti (born 20 May 1965), actor, author
  • Elena Tonetta (born 1988), archer and 2005 Junior European Champion
  • Girolamo Tartarotti (born 1706), author
  • Gustavo Venturi (1830–1898), a bryologist whose herbarium is now kept at the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali in Trento.
  • Riccardo Zandonai (born 1883), composer

    • Twin towns – Sister cities

    Rovereto is twinned with:

  • Bento Gonçalves, Brazil
  • Dolní Dobrouč, Czech Republic
  • Forchheim, Germany
  • Kufstein, Austria

    • References

    Rovereto Wikipedia
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