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From Verona we went to visit Trento, which is an hour and a half away by train. I decided this time to go further north because I thought that part of Italy must be beautiful.
It is a city located in the Trentino-Alto-Adige region. It is known internationally for the Council of Trento that was made by the Catholic Church. It was Austrian territory until World War I.
For this visit we changed the outfit and we took jackets just in case. It was cold when we arrived, but the August heat arrived immediately.
The first thing we found was the Vanga Tower, which was built in 1210 by the Vescovo prince Federico Vanga. It was intended to control access to the Doss Trento hill, but it was also a prison for princes and wealthy people.
When we visited it, the entrance was free and we were attended by a lady who went out of her way to give us all the information; in fact, she showed us the floors that were not yet given access to the public. We could not go up to the end of the tower because the staircase was damaged and due to the covid they had not been able to have it fixed.
The tower is now a museum and they have soldiers’ uniforms, weapons and photos of Trento during the war. There is also a photo showing that this tower was the only building left standing after Trento was bombed.
Go up to the Mausoleum di Cesare Battisti. Good thing we did this first because it was quite a hike uphill.
It makes me laugh because our vacations are always running with backpacks, or sweating, or being dead tired. Anything but glamorous.
From the top there are good views to take a photo of all of Trento and there are also some small archaeological ruins.
We went down the mountain and continued towards the center and after seeing the first church I felt a drop of energy that I couldn’t even walk, so we urgently looked for a restaurant. We found a place right next to the Cattedrale di San Vigilio and it was full of locals so it had to be good. The simplest pizza cost 6 euros.
We toured what was left from the center and we went to the Castello del Buonconsiglio.
To see the museum, you had to book online and there was no space at that time either. We dedicated ourselves to touring the gardens, which are beautiful and even more so in August, that green seemed retouched with Photoshop.
We didn’t make it to the 3:30 p.m. train and we had to wait for the one an hour later.
On the trip from Verona to Trento there were some bad people who were walking from here to there all the time in all the wagons. Even without a mask, so a man was arguing with one of them for a while. The same guys were also in the station square in the afternoon, and we realized they were selling drugs.
When we got on the train it started to rain and about half an hour from Verona, we began to hear super loud bangs from the train. At one point we stopped, and they told us we couldn’t continue because there was a log in the middle of the road.
We were there an hour waiting. My theory is that the train, after taking so many blows from the fallen trees, broke down. In the end we backed off, and the train left us two stations behind. It was raining very hard, and we were all in the tunnel under the platforms. The situation looked like something out of a movie.
We arrived in Verona 3 hours later than we had planned and it was an apocalyptic scenario: fallen trees everywhere.
Then we went to a pharmacy because I needed a lip cream and it was closed, when they said in the Goolge that it should be open. A guy from the area told me that it was open, but that it had flooded in the storm and until recently they were removing the water with buckets.
Due to the hailstorm that afternoon, a total of 600 trees fell in Verona. We couldn’t believe that all this had happened while we were sleeping back on the train.
Apart from the story of the return, I loved the landscape of Trento, and the architecture of the city resembles that of Trieste. German is also spoken in Trento and in fact, all the signs came in both languages.
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