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# 77 MARCH 21 , 2016
Art and architecture, nature and museums have made Trento a cultural hotspot.
Provincial and (autonomous) Regional
Capital, this city in Trentino Alto Adige
boasts a long, rich tradition and some of
the most important monuments in Italian
history. Trento was struck at the base of
the rocky spur of the Doss Trento, on the
Adige River's right bank (and beneath the
Mausoleum of Cesare Battisti), as early as
the Roman age.
The city's ancient nucleus was transferred
to the opposite bank of the river, while an
imposing defensive wall was constructed
around it in the Middle Ages.
Around the year 1,000, the Holy Roman
Emperor Conrad II founded the Bisho-
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