Trento

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Chapters: People from Trento, Andrea Pozzo, University of Trento, Martino Martini, Mirko Bortolotti, Chiara Lubich, Christoph Anton Migazzi, Ernest von Koerber, Giovanni Kessler, Trento railway station, Ida Dalser, Paolo Oss Mazzurana, Daniel Oss, Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Beniamino Andreatta, Alessandro Vittoria, Lorenzo Bernardi, Cesare Maestri, Mauro Trentini, Margherita Cagol, Jacob Acontius, Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen, Cesare Battisti, Matthias Gallas, Marcello Guarducci, Rody Mirri, Francesca Neri, Leonardo Bertagnolli, Adriana Volpe, Ludovico Madruzzo, Galeazzo von Thun und Hohenstein, Bice Bones, Roberto Sighel, Giulia Turco, Antonio da Trento, Hermann Zingerle, Gianna Pederzini, Leopold Ernst von Firmian, Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Alessandro Bonetti, Trento Calcio 1921, Giovanni Battista Ceschi a Santa Croce, Mariano Piccoli, Mattarello, Lorenzo Dellai, Giulio Alessandrini, Andrea Stoppini, Giorgio Moser, Francesca Dallapé, Renzo Cramerotti, Cognola. Excerpt: Trento ·) (traditional English: Trent; Italian: , pronounced or ; local language: Trènt; German: ) is an Italian city located in the Adige River valley in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. It is the capital of the region and of the Autonomous Province of Trento. In the English-speaking world, the city is most notable as the location of the Council of Trent. Trento is a major educational, scientific, financial and political centre in Trentino Alto-Adige and Northern Italy in general. The University of Trento ranks highly out of Italy's top 30 colleges, coming 1st in the Italian Ministry of Education ranking, 1st in Engineering area according to Censis-La Repubblica ranking and 5th in the Il Sole 24 ore ranking of Italian universities, and amongst the 500 best in the world, coming 407th. The city contains a picturesque Medieval and Renaissance historic centre, with ancient buildings such as Trento Cathedral and the Castello del Buonconsiglio. Modern-day Trento is a cosmopolitan city, with highly-developed and organized modern social services. The city often ranks extremely highly out of all 103 Italian cities for quality of life, standard of living, and business and job opportunities, coming 1st, 6th and 2nd respectively. Trento is also one of the nation's wealthiest and most prosperous, with its province being one of the richest in Italy, although poorer than its neighbours Lombardy and South Tyrol, with a GDP per capita of ¿29,500 and a GDP (nominal) of ¿14.878 billion. The township of Trento is geographically very large and encompasses the town centre as well as many suburbs of extremely varied geographical and population conditions (from the industrial suburb of Gardolo, just north of the city, to tiny mountain hamlets on the Monte Bondone). Various distinctive suburbs still maintain their traditional identity of rural or mountain villages. Trento lies in a wide glacial valley called the Adige valley just south of the Alps foothill range Dolomite Mountains, where the