When the Dolomites sound
On the map she looks like a butterfly. The wings spread wide, hesitant, on which flower he should settle down. The delicate backbone is the Adige, the second longest river in Italy, the rump part of Lake Garda. His wings are made of many colorful explosives. Brown - these are the Dolomites. Green - these are the meadows, the valleys, the mountain pastures. And all the colors between emerald green and azure - these are the lakes. At least 100 gray dots turn out to be castles, and the red dots are the villages and towns, and the biggest blob is Trento, the capital of the small northern Italian province of Trentino.
From a butterfly you can learn how to stagger from flower to flower without hurry. A pace that matches Trentino, although the province offers its guests a dizzying array of offers. Should I drive along Gourmetstrasse or prefer the wine road? Do I feel like doing sports? Then I can hike or bike, climb, ride or bask in the healing springs of Levico Terme. And the cultural offers are so abundant that you lose the overview. Art exists not only in museums, but in the cathedrals, churches, chapels and castles.
Many artists are attracted to Trentino in South Tyrol
Music is played on every corner in the summer, for every taste: classical or rock or pop. In the backyard, in the hall, in the tent or, as in the last year, jazzy world music on Passo Fittanze, east of the Adige, not far from the town of Avio, at noon at 1399 meters. Hours before, visitors occupied the slopes. The sun was shining, it was warm. And because the people wore colorful T-shirts, it looked like in the meadows, as if a thousand colorful flowers. The bandleader was a celebrity: Trilok Gurtu, an Indian. His band drummed, blew and fluted Arabic, African and Indian rhythms. A shadow moved across the valley, staying there for a while, as if listening. The wind stole the sounds from the instruments and carried them into the valleys. Tumbling or dancing like a butterfly. A flower is the MART, the museum of modern art in Rovereto. Not only because of the paintings and sculptures, you can also look at modern art at home, but because of the architecture of the building and especially because of the fantastic glass-steel dome of the architect Mario Botta. Visitors lay their heads in the neck for a long time because nobody can see enough about this dome.
One of the most unusual flowers is called Arte Sella and is a very special art trail in the Val di Sella, an enchanted beautiful valley. Every two years artists work here with the materials that make up this landscape: stones and branches, earth and logs, leaves and roots. When the artists leave, they leave behind art that they can not buy because it belongs to the landscape. An entire theater of branches stands here in the woods, including wolves and hedgehogs. Awesome, the visitors roam through the living plant-cathedral of the artist Giuliano Mauri. Fancy history? Then forget Trento, the capital, the city of the Lombards, the city in which the Teutons, the Habsburgs, the French, the prince-bishops have left their mark everywhere: the Cathedral of San Vigilio, the bulky Castello del Buonconsiglio. Riches, art treasures and town houses with exciting stories. Trento became Italian only after the First World War. The butterfly does not say, "Either - or." He says, "Fly wherever you want, go to the museum in the morning, go swimming or rowing at noon, go to a castle in the afternoon where you cook so well and eat in a knight's hall, enjoy the tranquility of thick walls and long history Nowhere do you sleep better. "
Breathtaking beauty, spread over six thousand square kilometers of countryside. Green, blue and gray lakes. Rugged three-thousanders and long, gentle valleys. Cities and villages full of stories, history and art. And offers for almost every holiday need. Swimming, cycling, hiking, scrambling in the Dolomites, Play golf or prefer wellness at a height of one thousand meters? And where do you live? In the castle above the city, in the lonely hut in the forest, the apartment, the chic hotel. Who wants to get to know Trentino, without being rushed by his offers, there is nothing left but the decision to relax and let yourself go. Like here in the Valley of the Lakes, Valle dei Laghi, Continue? Or - magically attracted by Castel Toblino - stop in the once ancient temple, which was then a castle and today is a café and restaurant? To decide - that is the hardest exercise on this journey.
The steps of the last visitors echo through the mighty, thousand years old Castello di AvioThe evening wind moves the leaves of the trees. In the town Aviobelow the Castello, the bells ring in the evening, and at night there is only the sound of the Adige to listen. That's how it sounds in the Dolomites.
The next day, at noon, on the other side of the Adige, in the High valley of the Passo Fittanze, completely different sounds. Five musicians meet for one of the many summer concerts. For many holidaymakers, listening to music in the open air is the goal or starting point of a hike. Whether pop, rock, jazz, classical or world music, unknown or famous ensembles and bands - there is music in Trentino during the holiday season at sunrise and sunset and in the blazing noonday heat. There is the music event in a tuxedo and with expensive card or in the T-shirt on the lawn completely free. With wine, cheese, salami and ciabatta from the picnic basket.
Art appreciation. MART is the name of the museum of modern and contemporary art in Rovereto, under whose sensational metal-and-glass dome, a play of air and light, every visitor turns his neck.
Seven thousand works of art - then the senses must calm down in the café.
Or in the midst of ancient cultural landscapes, to which the Apple, wine and gourmet streets belong in Trentino. Recognizing good wine is also an art that requires expertise.
Float in the east of the province, in the Val di Sella land and after Artesella ask (near Borgo Valsugana). For over twenty years, an international, very own show of modern art takes place here. Works whose material may only be taken from the local landscape. Tree trunks and branches, stones, leaves and earth. So mysterious wheels are in the forest, a theater in the thicket or a large tree-cathedral of the sculptor Giuliano Mauri.
Teroldego - wine from Trentino
The winemaker Elisabetta Foradori produces on her farm in Mezzolombardo a unique wine in the true sense of the word: Teroldego Rotaliano. Since the Middle Ages, the Teroldego vine has been cultivated in the Rotaliana plain, on the gravelly soils between the Noce and Adige rivers. The grape variety is autochthonous, so originally grew only here. In the 19th century, connoisseurs compared the strong red Teroldego with the finest Bordeaux wines. But a hundred years later, the grape variety was about to die out, and the thin drink, which was still pressed from the grapes, caused little regret. Elisabetta Foradori changed that. In 1985, the oenologist inherited her father's estate and henceforth devoted herself to her goal of saving the Teroldego. She turned to organic farming, changed planting, cutting and work in the cellar. With success: Foradoris Teroldego Rotaliano, a spicy, polished red wine, convinced the critics immediately. And their dense, noble Granato, pressed only in top vintages from grapes of the highest quality, is considered the best Teroldego in the world.
Travel Info Trentino
Getting there With Air France from Frankfurt from 288 euros to Verona. Then continue with the rental car, z. Eg Europcar from 191 Euro / week, about 45 minutes north to Trento.
info Trentino Marketing also arranges accommodations and gives u. a. Information in German on music events, castles, wineries, etc. Via Romagnosi 11, I-38100 Trento, Tel. 00 39/04 61 21 93 00, Fax 00 39/04 61 21 94 00, www.visittrentino.it
