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( 0461 23 01 71; Piazza Battisti; adult/reduced €2.50/1.50; 9am-noon & 2-5.30pm Oct-May,
9.30am-1pm & 2-6pm Tue-Sun Jun-Sep)
Explore Roman Tridentum's city walls, paved streets,
tower, domestic mosaics and a workshop. The site was discovered less than two decades
ago, during restoration works on the nearby theatre.
MUSE
(Museo della Scienze; 0461 27 03 11;
www.muse.it
;
Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3; adult/reduced
€9/7; 10am-6pm Tue-Fri, 10am-7pm Sat & Sun; )
A stunning new architectural work
for Trento, care of Renzo Piano, houses this 21st-century science museum. Design-wise,
the building cleverly echoes the local landscape and the museum itself typifies the city's
brainy inquisitiveness. Highly interactive exhibitions explore the Alpine environment,
biodiversity and sustainability, society and technology.
MUSEUM
Funivia Trento-Sardagna
CABLE CAR
( 0461 23 21 54; Via Montegrappa 1; one way/return €3/5; 7am-10pm, 15min/half-hourly)
A brief
but spectacular cable-car ride from Trento's valley floor delivers you to the pretty village
of Sardagna - admire the vista over a grappa or two.
Badia di San Lorenzo
(Via Andrea Pozzo 2; 7am-noon, 3-7pm Mon-Sat)
The harmonious proportions of this 12th-
century church epitomise the calm simplicity of its Bergameschi Benedictine builders.
Look up to the cross-vaulting, touchingly festooned with rust-red stars.
CHURCH
Galleria Civica di Trento
ART GALLERY
( 0461 98 55 11;
www.mart.tn.it/galleriacivica
; Via Belenzani 46; Tue-Sun 10am-6pm)
This new city gallery project space steps into the breach while the future of the Trento
campus of MART (Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto) re-
mains uncertain.
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