Trento

Northern Italian city

Trento is a city in northern Italy, capital of the Trentino-Alto Adige region.

It sits in the Alps along the Adige River.

The city is best known as the site of the Council of Trent (1545–1563), the Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation.

We stopped in Trento on our way to the Dolomites.

geography

Dolomites

Alpine range, northeastern Italy

Italian cities

Verona

Italian city, famous tragically

  • VicenzaItalian city in Veneto
  • PaduaItalian city in Veneto
  • VeniceLagoon city, northeastern Italy

Innsbruck · Trieste · Bergamo · Milan · Ferrara · Modena · Bologna

history

Counter-Reformation

Church's internal reform movement

1919 · medieval · Roman

culture

science museum

Institution displaying natural phenomena

research · viticulture · spumante · apple orchards · Christmas markets

Opposites
geography/coastal vs inland

TrentoNaples

Mediterranean port city

Genoa · Palermo · Venice · Trieste · Catania

religious history/counter-reformation vs reformation

TrentoWittenberg

Reformation's starting point

Geneva · Zurich · Strasbourg · Edinburgh · Canterbury

cultural identity/italian-germanic borderland vs pure cultural cores

TrentoRome

Italy's capital city

Florence · Munich · Vienna · Milan · Berlin

Phrases
Family

Trent

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G