Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The local bus company runs buses from the InterCity bus station (Via Andrea Pozzo), to
and from Madonna di Campiglio, San Martino di Castrozza, Molveno, Canazei and
Rovereto.
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Rovereto
POP 37,500
In the winter of 1769, Leopold Mozart and his soon-to-be-famous musical son visited
Rovereto and found it to be 'rich in diligent people engaged in viticulture and the weaving
of silk'. The area is no longer known for silk, but still produces some outstanding wines,
including the inky, cherry-scented Marzemino (the wine's scene-stealing appearance in
Don Giovanni
suggests it may have been a Mozart family favourite). Those on a musical
town that Mozart knew still has its haunting, tightly coiled streets, but it's the shock of the
new that now lures most: Rovereto is home to one of Italy's best contemporary and 20th-
century art museums.
Sights
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Rovereto
(MART; 0464 43 88 87; english.mart.trento.it; Corso Bettini 43; adult/reduced €11/7, incl Casa del
Depero €13/9; 10am-6pm Tue-Thu, Sat & Sun, to 9pm Fri)
The four-floor, 12,000-sq-m steel,
glass and marble behemoth, care of the Ticinese architect Mario Botta, is both imposing
and human, with mountain light filling a central atrium from a soaring cupola. It's home
to some huge 20th-century works, including Warhol's
FourMarilyns
(1962), several Pi-
cassos and a clutch of contemporary art stars, including Bill Viola, Kara Walker, Arnuf
Rainer and Anslem Keifer. Italian work is, naturally, well represented, with pieces from
Giacomo Balla, Giorgio Morandi, Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni. Temporary exhibi-
tions cast a broad net, from easygoing shows of Monet or Modigliani to cutting-edge con-
temporary surveys.
ART GALLERY
Casa del Depero
MUSEUM
