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34 unusual facts about Trento


Alessia Merz

Alessia Merz (Trento, September 24, 1974) is an Italian model, television host and showgirl.

Anna Proclemer

Born in Trento, Proclemer was the daughter of an engineer and a housewife.

Antonio Pedrotti

Antonio Pedrotti (August 14, 1901 – May 15, 1975 Trento) was an Italian conductor and composer.

Aracruz, Espírito Santo

Another large wave of Italian immigrants began coming around 1872, when a ship called Sofia arrived bringing 386 Italians from the region of Trento.

Arnold Fanck

After the screening of his film Der ewige Traum at the mountain film festival in Trento in 1957, Fanck was once again recognized for his artistic achievements.

Battle of Castelfranco Veneto

Seizing Bolzano on 18 November, he then marched his brigade south to Trento.

Bristol Coanda Monoplanes

A single Bristol Coanda Monoplane survives, in the Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics, Trento, Italy, being the oldest surviving Bristol aircraft still in existence.

Caproni Ca.100

Floatplane ex-I-DISC and MM56237 is in the Museo dell'Aeronautica Gianni Caproni, Trento.

Carlo Battisti

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

David S. Wall

He completed a partnership with Transcrime (Università Cattolica del sacro Cuore of Milan and the University of Trento) and the CNRS, (Sorbonne, Paris) looking at "Public and Private Partnerships for Reducing Counterfeiting of Fashion Apparels and Accessories" as part of the EU Aegis Programme Framework 6.

Department of Alto Adige

Its capital was Trent and the administrative language Italian, but the German-speaking areas temporarily adopted bilingualism in the public notices and used German in city government.

Droane

The church is named for the first time in the bull of Pope Urban III of 7 March 1186 and was visited by delegates of the bishop of Trent in 1750.

Elijah Mizrachi

A compendium by Jacob Marcaria was published under the title Kitzur Mizrachi (Trento, 1561), and later, one by Isaac ha-Kohen of Ostroh, entitled Mattenat 'Ani (Prague, 1604-9).

Francesco Antonio Begnudelli-Basso

Francesco Antonio Begnudelli-Basso (born at Trento; died at Freising, 9 October 1713) was an Austrian canon lawyer.

Francesco Casetti

Francesco Casetti (born April 2, 1947) is an Italian film and television theorist from Trento, Italy.

Francesco Rossetti

Francesco Rossetti (Trento, 14 September 1833 – Padova, 20 April 1885) was a notable Italian experimental physicist.

Frederic Nausea

When the Council was reopened at Trent in 1551 Nausea was present, taking an active part in its deliberations, especially on the Sacraments.

Galeas von Thun und Hohenstein

He was born in Trento (then in Austria, now in Italy), the youngest son of Count Guidobald Maria Thun und Hohenstein and of his wife, Teresa Guidi dei Marchesi di Bagno.

Giuseppe Placido Nicolini

Monsignor Giuseppe Placido Maria Nicolini O.S.B. (1877-1973), born Villazzano, Italy, was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Assisi from 1928-1973.

Grey-faced sengi

This new species was first seen when caught on film in 2005 by Francesco Rovero of the Museum of Natural Sciences in Trento, Italy, who set up camera traps and captured an unfamiliar elephant shrew.

Hofkirche, Innsbruck

The church was designed by architect Andrea Crivelli of Trento in the traditional German form of a hall church, consisting of three naves with a setback three-sided choir, round and pointed arch windows, and a steep broken hip roof.

Jacob Marcaria

Jacob Marcaria (died 1562) is best known as operator of the Jewish printing press in Trento in the period from 1558 to 1562.

Karl von Seinsheim

He held similar posts in the government councils of Trento in 1808, Straubing in 1809, Salzburg in 1810, and Munich in 1817.

Niccolò Castiglioni

Following his return to Italy in 1970, he eventually resumed teaching composition at the conservatories of Trent (1976–77), Milan (1977–89), Como (1989–91) and Milan once again (1991–6).

Nicola Guarino

Nicola Guarino (born Messina, 1954) is an Italian computer scientist and researcher in the area of Formal Ontology for Information Systems, and the head of the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), part of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Trento.

River Waveney

The ice sheet closed the natural drainage from the Vale of Pickering, the Humber and The Wash so that a lake of a complex shape formed in the Vale of Pickering, the Yorkshire Ouse valley, the lower Trent valley and the Fenland basin.

Scouting and Guiding in Italy

The Austro-Hungarian soldier and Austrian Scoutleader Julius Markaritzer founded in 1916 a Scout troop in Trento.

Tabula clesiana

It is actually conserved at the Castello del Buonconsiglio Museum in Trento.

Taxis-Bordogna-Valnigra

Bonus von Bordogna worked with his in-laws in the Taxis family's postal system and took over the post office in Trento from his brother-in-law David von Taxis.

Timbó

Most immigrants who arrived in Timbó came from Germany (Pomerania and Hamburg) and from Italy (Chiavenna and Trent).

Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party

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.

Trento DOC

Chardonnay grapes were first brought to the region from France around 1900 by Giulio Ferrari when Trento was still part of the Habsburg Empire.

Trento-class cruiser

The three ships in the class were named after the three unredeemed cities taken from the Austro-Hungarian empire after the victory in World War I: Trento, Trieste, and Bolzano.

Trient, Switzerland

:Trient is also the German name for the city of Trento, Italy


6th Alpini Regiment

After World War II the 6th Alpini regiment was reformed on April 16, 1946 in the city of Meran with the battalions "Edolo", "Bolzano" and "Trento" and became the sole Alpini regiment of the reformed Alpine Brigade Tridentina.

Bleggio

Bleggio Inferiore, a former municipality of the province of Trento (from 2010 part of Comano Terme).

Bolzano/Bozen railway station

The station was opened on 16 May 1859, upon the opening of the Trento-Bolzano/Bozen portion of the first stage of the Brenner railway from Verona.

Castelfranco Veneto railway station

The main destinations are Trento, Venezia, Padua, Treviso, Vicenza and Calalzo.

Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois

In a series of skirmishes, Vaubois was driven out of Trento and pushed back to Calliano where his command was defeated on 7 November.

COSBI

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

Council of Trent

During the pontificate of Pope Paul III, the Council fathers met for the first eight sessions in Trento (1545–47), and for the ninth to eleventh sessions in Bologna (1547).

Federico Wanga

As Bishop he founded several hospitals and had a defensive tower (Torre Vanga) built on the Adige in Trento.

Giacomo Bresadola

Giacomo Bresadola (Mezzana, Trento; often given as Giacopo) 14 February 1847 – Trento 9 June 1929) was an eminent Italian mycologist.

Idro

Lake Idro (or Lago d’Idro), a subalpine lake in the Provinces of Brescia and Trento

Katia Serra

She played for Bologna (1986–1991), Lugo di Ravenna (1994–1997), Modena (1997–1999), Lazio (2002–2003), Bergamo (2003–2004), Atletico Oristano (2004–2005), Agliana and Terme di Cervia (2005–2006), Reggiana (2006–2007), Trento (2007–2008), Roma (2008–2009) and Levante (2010).

Molina di Ledro

Molina di Ledro, located about 35 km southwest of Trento, bordered with the following municipalities: Riva del Garda, Bezzecca, Pieve di Ledro, Tiarno di Sopra, Nago-Torbole, Limone sul Garda and Tremosine.

Moser Cicli

Francesco Moser began building racing bicycles after his retirement, as did many Italian bicycle racers, in a small workshop in Trento, Italy.

Pieve di Ledro

Pieve di Ledro, located about 35 km southwest of Trento, bordered with the following municipalities: Concei, Riva del Garda, Bezzecca and Molina di Ledro.

Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen

His area of responsibility stretched from the northern tip of Lake Garda to Trento on the west side of the Adige River.

Rolling highway

In Italy, Trenitalia and Trasposervizi signed an agreement between Italy, Austria and Germany for a new rolling road that connects the inland of Roncafort (north of Trento) with Regensburg (north of Munich) and previously managed by the Austrian Ökombi.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen

The present-day diocese was created by a papal bull of 6 August 1964, when the South Tyrolean parts of the Trento diocese around Bolzano and Merano were merged into the former Diocese of Brixen.

Stefano Cagol

He studied at the Institute of Art in Trento, the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera, Milan and at the Ryerson University in Toronto, where he was a post-doctoral fellow.

Taxis-Bordogna-Valnigra

The baronial branch held the Lieutenant Postmaster General position in Trento and the Adige and the counts held the Lieutenant Postmaster General position in Bolzano.

Tiarno di Sopra

Tiarno di Sopra, located about 40 km southwest of Trento, bordered with the following municipalities: Condino, Bezzecca, Cimego, Tiarno di Sotto, Storo, Molina di Ledro, Tremosine, Bondone and Magasa.

Traubi

A Croatian company Trento sokovi licenses it from Waldquelle since 2006, and produces it in Brestovac.

Ugo Rossi

Before entering politics, he worked in the insurance sector and for the Trento–Malè–Marilleva railway.

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.