Things to See in Rovereto | 2 Monuments & Landmarks

All the monuments in Rovereto

The landmarks and masterpieces worth planning a day around.

The entrance corridor to Botta's MART rotunda, Rovereto

MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e RoveretoMART RoveretoBotta's glass-domed piazza, Futurism collection, Depero archive, twentieth-century Italian artMario Botta sank a glass-domed rotunda into the middle of Rovereto and filled it with Italy's twentieth century. Opened in 2002, the museum holds one of the country's deepest collections of Futurism, alongside Morandi, de Chirico and a strong run of contemporary work, all arranged around Botta's central piazza coperta, lit from above by a ring of glass. The connection to Rovereto runs deeper than the building: this was the hometown of Fortunato Depero, the Futurist painter and designer, and MART also runs the small Casa d'Arte Futurista Depero nearby, built to his own eccentric floor plan. A combined ticket covers both, plus the Galleria Civica in town, so a single visit can trace Futurism from its manifestos to its household objects.Plan the visit

CastleHidden GemCastel BesenoLargest Trentino fortress, 1487 Battle of Calliano, Von Trapp family ownership, Buonconsiglio museum networkThe largest fortified complex in Trentino-South Tyrol spreads its elliptical walls across a hilltop above Besenello, stretching about 250 meters, first documented in the twelfth century as a fief of the Counts of Appiano. The castle's most consequential day came in 1487, when it served as the site of the Battle of Calliano between Venetian and Tyrolean forces, a clash that helped fix the border between Italian and German-speaking Trentino for centuries afterward. The Von Trapp family, of Sound of Music fame, owned the castle until donating it to the province in 1973, and restoration through the later twentieth century turned it into a branch of the Buonconsiglio Castle museum network, now drawing around forty thousand visitors a year with summer events staged inside its walls.

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