Trento Travel Guide

Trento is a bit of a posh town. The history made it a proud town, with a number of large manors outside town, where bishops used to come for holidays. Nowadays it is one of the most expensive towns in Italy, with the wealth from farming, wine, and high-tech. At Easter the fields around Trento are filled with apple trees in blossom.

The town centre is pretty much a pedestrian area, and walking around the historic centre you can see a number of outdoor frescos on historic buildings. In former days the river Adige flowed right outside the centre where now Torre Verde is.

Apart from the council of Trento, which gathered here in the sixteenth century for many periods of several years each, and dominates the town centre, there is one other noteworthy historical event, related to Judaism. A little boy named Simione died about five hunderd years ago. The event was blamed on the Jews, with stories of pagan rituals. Fictional scenes are depicted on two plaqettes on via Roma. Therefore all Jewish men were killed, while women and children were expelled. The Jews put a ban on Trento in return. In the 1990s relations between Trento and the Jewish community improved when the Trentini stopped (officially) honouring Simione as a martyr, and the ban was lifted. A plaquette in a little alley off via Roma commemorates this occasion.