The blog of Ostello Rovereto
An evocative wonder above the Leno River. The hermitage enjoys a unique view. It’s a pearl set in the rock wall overlooking the lake behind San Colombano dam. Are you ready to dive into the history of the many hermits who spent their lives here?
Winston Churchill defined the Tremosine Gorge as the “eighth wonder of the world”. The road climbs from Gargnano on Lake Garda and arrives in Tremosine, the most exciting terrace on Lake Garda. It’s a unique masterpiece in the world. Human ingenuity has created an exchange with the wildest nature. A winding tongue set in the rock ensures the impression of entering the sinuosity of the mountain.
The dialogue between nature and man has generated a unique wonder. Do you know about the most beautiful road in the world?
Have you ever thought of taking a prehistoric walk? A few kilometers from the historic center of Rovereto, an evocative route will take you on a hunt for footsteps of dinosaurs.
A few kilometers from Rovereto Hostel and in the lap of surrounding vineyards, we want to tell you about Ala.
Having the Orange Flag of the Italian Touring Club since 2007, it’s a picturesque village of very ancient origins, and during the 1700s, it experienced a golden period thanks to the weaving of silk velvets. Do you want to breathe the air of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Do not miss a walk to admire its streets and squares!
It’s a deep canyon created over tens of millennia by the tumultuous waters of the Fersina Stream. Do you know of the Ravine of High Bridge?
It was splendidly built in honor of the Trento province nobleman who donated his possessions to the church, took a vow of poverty and lived surrounded by nature in the fourth century. Tradition has a bear as his inseparable companion. To the present day, the sanctuary has hosted a bear in an enclosure below the complex for some decades. An interesting peculiarity is the composition of the sanctuary, which has an evocative structure of five churches overlooking one another. Have you ever had the opportunity to visit one of the most beautiful sanctuaries in the Alps? Don’t miss history, ideas and how to arrive at the Sanctuary of Saint Romedius.
Near Lake Garda, this is undoubtedly one of the most evocative and mystical places in all of northern Italy.
Built on a vertical cliff on Monte Baldo, it originally housed a hermitage. The current church was built in 1530, becoming a sanctuary when the knights of Malta had the church rebuilt in 1625. Its relative inaccessibility has preserved the site, which has remained almost intact until now. The interior of the sanctuary houses the Scala Santa, a reproduction of the staircase found in Rome near the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran
Begun in 1212 and completed in 1321, this structure rose along the road to Verona, at the site of the ancient Basilica of Saint Vigilius. The basilica was originally built around the end of the fourth century as a sepulcher for the missionaries Sisinnius, Martyrius, Alexander, and the saint himself.
In the city of Ala, the rich hall in the beautiful Pizzini Building (Palazzo de Pizzini) has a prestigious collection of pianos from the time of Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Chopin. The Ala Museum of Ancient Pianos is a precious delight and it will leave you enchanted even if you are not a classical music lover. Do you know about this small but charming museum in the picturesque town of Ala in the province of Trento? Don’t miss this insight and make an opportunity to visit to Trento province.
