This is one of the best loved walks, encompassing the Adige river, several churches, an ancient village and a peculiarly shaped hill. It goes from Piazza Dante to the banks of the Adige river and includes the interesting church of S. Lorenzo, built in the 12th century by Benedictine monks. Today, the church is curiously below ground level, due to the numerous floods that, over the centuries, have deposited alluvial soil raising the surrounding ground level. Cross the Ponte S. Lorenzo bridge to one of the most typical urbanised river landscapes in Trentino, with the church of S. Apollinare, the ancient village of Piedicastello, with its workers’ district, towered over by the huge rocky outcrop of Doss Trento. The slender church, built in the 13th century and painted by Dürer, reflects in its shape the rocky outcrop, while Piedicastello still preserves the oldtime atmosphere of a village of fishermen and raft-builders, the houses all neatly arranged in a row against the nearby escarpment. Cross the little square and take Via Brescia to Piazzale Divisioni Alpine, from where an easy road leads up to the summit of the Doss Trento. This is a place of considerable historic and natural interest, having been the site of an inaccessible Prehistoric fort, a Roman fortress and an Early Christian church, and also featuring a number of rare plants and monumental trees. The 1940 road and its tunnels, and the National Historical Museum on the summit, were built by the Alpine Corps and form a sort of “shrine”. On the side facing toward Trento there is the monumental Mausoleum of Cesare Battisti, built with the red and white stone of Monte Calisio. This is a great spot for some marvellous views. Returning to the church of S. Apollinare, nearby are the socalled “Galleries”, a prestigious and original exhibition space of the Historical Museum of Trentino, where local history is on show according to state-of-the-art display techniques.

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