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Palazzo della Regione, the Presidence

Favorite thing: Palazzo della Regione Trentino-Alto Adige is a low, modern looking building lying in front of Dante's Square with a wide open gallery running in front. The entrance bears on one side “Palazzo della Regione Trentino-Alto Adige Presidenza Giunta Regionale” and on the other side “Region Trentino Süd Tirol, Präsidium des Regionalausschusses”.

I have made under "Local Customs" a special tip on the complex language situation in Regione Trentino-Alto Adige/Region Trentino Süd Tirol.

Palazzo della Regione, offices

Favorite thing: The offices of the Palazzo della Regione stand in another, taller, building, 200m away. The architect was also Adalberto Libera. It is also built in an aerial way and a large part of the building is standing on a pillar that contains the staircases and lifts. The whole, though huge, looks very light and elegant.

Palazzo della Regione, the architecture

Favorite thing: The architecture of the Palazzo della Regione is especially striking once you are in the gallery. The main part of the building is corbelled and standing on huge pillars, some are looking like giant hands that bear the first level. Others look like elegant spools. This is the work of Adalberto Libera (1903-1963), a famous local architect that belonged to the avant-garde of modern architecture in Europe. It was built from 1954 to 1963.

Palazzo della Regione, the Presidence

Favorite thing: Palazzo della Regione Trentino-Alto Adige is a low, modern looking building lying in front of Dante's Square with a wide open gallery running in front. The entrance bears on one side “Palazzo della Regione Trentino-Alto Adige Presidenza Giunta Regionale” and on the other side “Region Trentino Süd Tirol, Präsidium des Regionalausschusses”.

Provincia autonoma di Trento (Autonome province of Trento) and Provincia autonoma di Bolzano (Autonome province of Bolzano) make up the Regione Trentino-Alto Adige.

TheTrento Province has several small linguistic minorities.
A Ladin speaking minority. Ladin is a mountain Latin language of the Rheto-Roman branch, also spoken in Switzerland (where it is the fourth national language, appearing on the banknotes).
Two minorities speaking German languages, the Mochen language and the Cimbra language.

The situation in the Bolzano province, is very different. The population is mainly native German speaking (69%). Native Italian speakers occur for only 26% of the population, mainly in Bolzano/Bolzen. The Ladin minority accounts for 5%. German is an official language in the province, together with Italian. The Bolzano province is also called Alto Adige/Süd Tirol province. Both name have been officially recognized by the Italian constitution in 2001.

Piazza Cesare Battisti, Fiore lunare

Favorite thing: On Piazza Cesare Battisti the monument called Fiore lunare (moon flower) matches perfectly with the modern theater. It was built in from 1981 to 2002 to recall the memory of Marco Pola (1906-1991), poet from Trento. Please not that this is Marco Pola and not Marco Polo, who anyway lived in a completely different century!

Teatro, Piazza Cesare Battisti

Favorite thing: Cesare Battisti was born in 1875, in Trento, then a part of Austria-Hungary. He became a leader of the "irredentismo" movement that fought for Italian speaking territories, such as the Trento region, to become part of Italy. He was sentenced to death for high treason to Austria and executed in the courtyard of Castello del Buonconsiglio in 1916.

Piazza Cesare Battisti, though in the old city center looks very different. On one side of the square, stands the theater with a very modern look.