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33 unusual facts about Trentino


Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen

When he died in Arco on 18 February 1895, Archduke Albrecht received a state funeral and was buried in tomb 128 of the Imperial crypt in Vienna.

Battle of Rovereto

On 3 September, Masséna attacked 1,500 of Vukassovich's troops near Ala and drove them back to Marco on the east bank of the Adige.

Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul

During the next decades, the region was settled by immigrants coming mostly from the Italian regions of Veneto, Trentino, and Lombardia.

Bosco Chiesanuova

Bosco Chiesanuova borders the following municipalities: Ala, Cerro Veronese, Erbezzo, Grezzana, Roverè Veronese, and Selva di Progno.

Brigitte Guibal

She also won a silver medal in the K-1 event at the 2000 European Championships in Mezzana.

Cimon della Pala

The mountain lies near the town of Tonadico in Trentino, the southern part of the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, and is the watershed between the Cismón valley and the Travignolo valley.

COSBI

The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (COSBI) is a non profit research center located in Trentino, Italy.

Erling Fløtten

During the third round of the 2010 World Senior Chess Championship in Arco, Italy, Fløtten collapsed at the chessboard, and despite rapid intervention from medical personnel, his life could not be saved.

Jean Joseph Magdeleine Pijon

On 3 September 1796, Pijon reported to his army commander that the Austrians were defending Serravalle near Ala in the Trentino.

Jindřich Bišický

His mandatory 10 month long military service was in Trient, as a military sketcher.

Johann Philipp d'Arco

D'Arco was born in Arco, Trentino, and already had 30 years distinguished service when he was ordered by Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden in 1703 to defend Breisach to the last man against a French attack under Villars.

Jon Ergüín

He won a bronze medal in the C-1 team event at the 2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in La Seu d'Urgell and also at the 2000 European Championships in Mezzana.

Jordi Domenjó

He also won a bronze medal in the C-1 team event at the 2000 European Championships in Mezzana.

Jordi Sangrá Gibert

He won a bronze medal in the C-1 team event at the 2000 European Championships in Mezzana.

Ladislav Čáni

He won a bronze medal in the C-2 team event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Mezzana.

Laurent Burtz

He won a bronze medal in the K-1 event at the 2000 European Championships in Mezzana.

Leonardo Sandri

Sandri was born in Buenos Aires to Antonio Enrico Sandri and Nella Righi, who had emigrated to Argentina from Ala, a village in Trentino in Italy.

Matteo Pontarollo

He also won a gold medal in the same event at the 2000 European Championships in Mezzana.

Miha Terdič

He also won a silver medal in the K-1 team event at the 2000 European Championships in Mezzana.

North Tyrol

Besides those two regions, the historical region of Tyrol for many centuries also included the South Tyrol and the historical region of Welschtirol, which were annexed by Italy after World War I.

Paolo Orsi

During his studies, he discovered the prehistoric zone of Colombo at Mori in Trentino.

Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg

Moritz Franz Friedrich Constantin Alexander Heinrich August Carl Albrecht of Saxe-Altenburg (Eisenberg, 24 October 1829 – Arco, Italy, 13 May 1907), was a German prince of the ducal house of Saxe-Altenburg.

Rock Master

Rock Master is an international climbing competition held every year in Arco.

Sant'Anna d'Alfaedo

Sant'Anna d'Alfaedo borders the following municipalities: Ala, Avio, Dolcè, Erbezzo, Fumane, Grezzana, Marano di Valpolicella, and Negrar.

Selva di Progno

Selva di Progno borders the following municipalities: Ala, Badia Calavena, Bosco Chiesanuova, Crespadoro, Recoaro Terme, Roverè Veronese, Velo Veronese, and Vestenanova.

Siege of Turin

On 17 June Victor Amadeus left Turin to meet Eugene, who was marching from the Trentino with Austrian troops under his command.

Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Union

In 1988 the two parties merged into the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party, which gained 9.9% in the subsequent provincial election.

Trentino Tyrolean People's Party

ASAR, whose slogan was "integral autonomy from Borghetto to Brenner", was a group which fought successfully for the establishment of the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol as special statute Region.

Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections, 2008

In South Tyrol the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), which had governed the Province for sixty years, was confirmed by far as the largest party, but lost many votes to Die Freiheitlichen.

Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections, 2013

In Trentino, where the President is elected directly by the people, Ugo Rossi (Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party, supported also by the Democratic Party, the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party and other minor parties) was elected by a landslide (58.1%).

The Democratic Party was confirmed as the largest party in the Province (22.1%), followed by the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (17.5%), Union for Trentino (13.3%), Trentino Project (9.0%), Lega Nord Trentino (6.2%) and the Five Star Movement (5.8%).

Ulrich Neckel

Ulrich Neckel survived the war, only to succumb to tuberculosis while in Arco.

University of Verona

From a location point of view, Verona University has two important poles: Veronetta, where the humanistic departments are to be found and Borgo Roma, the site of the Medicine and Science departments, besides the many other locations spread throughout the territory: Legnago (VR), Vicenza, Bolzano, Trento, Ala (TN) and Rovereto.


2013 Winter Universiade

The 2013 Winter Universiade, the XXVI Winter Universiade, was a winter multi-sport event which took place in Trentino, Italy, between 11 to 21 December 2013.

Adalberto Libera

He graduated from Parma's Institute of Art in 1925 and then in 1928 from Rome's Scuola Superiore di Architettura he became acquainted with Futurism through his fellow Trentino Fortunato Depero.

Alpine Brigade Tridentina

The brigade’s name Tridentina was taken from the name Venezia Tridentina, which was the name invented by the linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli for the region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and was officially in use for the area between 1919 and 1948.

Battle of Vittorio Veneto

The Imperial army tried on one side to force the Tonale Pass and enter Lombardy, on the other side to make two converging thrusts into central Venetia, the first one southeastward from the Trentino, the second one southwestward across the lower Piave.

Carlo Battisti

Battisti was born in Trento, Austria-Hungary in 1882 (nowadays Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy).

Citizens' Union for South Tyrol

The Union for South Tyrol was founded on 2 October 1989 by the merger of the nationalist South Tyrolean Homeland Federation of Eva Klotz (2.3% in the 1988 provincial election), the liberal-conservative Freedom Party of South Tyrol led by Gerold Meraner and right-wing splinters from the South Tyrolean People's Party led by Alfons Benedikter.

Comano

Comano, a frazione of the former commune of Lomaso, in Trentino, northern Italy (now part of Comano Terme)

Federation of the Greens

The Greens are stronger in cities and urban areas (Milan, Venice, Rome, Naples, etc.), in mountain regions, such as Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Aosta Valley, and in some Southern regions, such as Basilicata and Campania.

Lagarino bianco

However, while ampelographers do believe that Lagarino bianco was growing in the Trentino area during this time (with evidence supporting its planting around communes of Cembra, Faver and Grumes), not all are convinced that these references to weiss Lagrein are referring to Lagarino bianco with some speculating that the Jura wine grape Savagnin (known as Traminer in South Tyrol) being more likely the grape mentioned in these accounts.

Maurizio Fondriest

Born in Cles, Trentino, Fondriest turned professional in 1987 with the Ecoflam team.

Mòcheno language

Mòcheno is an Upper German variety spoken in three towns of the Mocheni Valley (German: Fersental, Italian: Valle del Fersina, Mòcheno: Bersntol), in Trentino, northeastern Italy.

Pergine

Pergine Valsugana, a municipality, in Trentino, in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol

Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso

Ampelographers have long thought Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso was related to the Marzemino grape of the San Michele all'Adige region of Trentino.

Rossignola

The variety is permitted as a minor blending component in a number of DOC regions including Bardolino, Valpolicella, Breganze, Garda Orientale and the multi-regional Valdadige DOC that extends into the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol wine region.

Štivor

Štivor (cirillic alphabeth: Штивoр) is a village near Prnjavor (Bosnia), whose population has Italian origin from Sugana Valley (Italian-Valsugana) in the present authonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige, Northern Italy.

Tabula clesiana

49.9 x 37.8 x 0.61, discovered in 1869 at Campi Neri near Cles in Trentino, northern Italy.

Tommaso Tittoni

After the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, his imprudently worded speech at Carate created the illusion that Italy was to be compensated, perhaps by the cession of the Trentino, and the disappointment when nothing of the kind materialized greatly weakened his prestige.

Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party

In the 2003 provincial election, Andreotti, who was the candidate for President of the centre-right, was soundly defeated (60.8% to 30.7%) by incumbent Lorenzo Dellai (Daisy), who appointed PATT members in his government.

In the 1993 provincial election the party had its best result ever (20.2%), thanks to the crisis of Christian Democracy (DC), and its leader Carlo Andreotti was President of the Province of Trento for the successive five years, at the head of a coalition composed of the PATT and the Italian People's Party, one of the successors of DC, and some minor parties.

In the run-up of the 2013 provincial election Ugo Rossi of the PATT won the centre-left primary election.

In the 2008 provincial election the PA supported Sergio Divina, senator and leader of Lega Nord Trentino, as candidate for President, while the PATT chose to continue its alliance with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and Lorenzo Dellai's Union for Trentino (UpT).

Trento–Malè–Marilleva railway

In 1891 a proposal for a new railway in Trentino (then part of the Austrian Empire was issued by Paolo Oss Mazzurana, mayor of Trento.

U.S. Alta Vallagarina

U.S. Alta Vallagarina is an Italian association football club located in Volano, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.

Veronese Riddle

Michele A. Cortelazzo and Ivano Paccagnella say that the plural -es of boves may well be considered Ladin (a Romance language spoken in parts of Veneto, Trentino and South Tyrol) and therefore not Latin, but romance.