Day trips
Day trips from Trento
15 towns within 90 minutes
Closest first. Trento is 4 minutes out. Drive times are computed on real roads, so they are a fair estimate rather than a promise about traffic.
Trento
Province: Trento · 194 m
4 minutes from Trento. The Alpine capital on the Adige at 194 metres, where the Council that reshaped the Catholic Church met in a castle still standing above the city.
Levico Terme
Province: Trento · 520 m
30 minutes from Trento. A Habsburg spa town in the Valsugana at 520 metres, built on arsenic-iron thermal waters.
Rovereto
Province: Trento · 204 m
31 minutes from Trento. The Vallagarina city at 204 metres where a Venetian-Austrian castle holds the Italian war museum and a domed contemporary art museum holds Italy's largest collection of its kind in the Alps.
Andalo
Province: Trento · 1,042 m
39 minutes from Trento. An alpine pass at 1,042 metres on the Paganella plateau, with a mountain range on one side and a periodic lake that empties and refills.
Bleggio Superiore
Province: Trento · 628 m
41 minutes from Trento. A scattered Giudicarie commune whose hilltop hamlet of Rango holds the Christmas markets, with a Slow Food walnut grown on the terraces below.
Brentonico
Province: Trento · 692 m
42 minutes from Trento. The Monte Baldo plateau town between Lake Garda and the Vallagarina, with chestnut groves, war trenches and a botanical garden.
Lavarone
Province: Trento · 1,172 m
43 minutes from Trento. A Cimbrian plateau at 1,172 metres above the Val d'Astico, with a karst lake and a wooded fort line.
Tenno
Province: Trento · 428 m
43 minutes from Trento. A hillside commune above Lake Garda where a medieval stone hamlet, a turquoise lake and the northernmost olive groves in Europe sit within reach of each other.
Riva del Garda
Province: Trento · 73 m
47 minutes from Trento. The north tip of the lake at 73 metres, where the Trentino mountains close in on the water and a Habsburg port town stayed bilingual into the twentieth century.
Borgo Valsugana
Province: Trento · 380 m
49 minutes from Trento. The valley town built on both banks of the Brenta in lower Valsugana, with a hilltop castle above and a contemporary art project in the side valley.
Luserna
Province: Trento · 1,333 m
51 minutes from Trento. A Cimbrian island at 1,333 metres on the Alpe Cimbra plateau, the last village in Italy where the medieval Bavarian dialect is still spoken at home.
Baselga di Pinè
Province: Trento · 964 m
57 minutes from Trento. The main town of the Piné plateau at 964 metres, with a Blue Flag lake, Italy's outdoor speed skating oval and a baroque Marian sanctuary.
Molveno
Province: Trento · 864 m
71 minutes from Trento. The village at the north end of a deep blue alpine lake, with a pale limestone range rising straight out of the water.
Pieve Tesino
Province: Trento · 843 m
75 minutes from Trento. A plateau village in eastern Trentino, birthplace of Alcide De Gasperi, shaped by centuries of families who left to trade prints across Europe.
Ossana
Province: Trento · 1,003 m
89 minutes from Trento. A small borgo at the foot of a 25-metre stone keep, with Christmas nativity scenes filling its streets every December.
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Biccari
Province: Foggia
A Subappennino Dauno borgo at 450 meters under Monte Cornacchia, the highest peak in Puglia at 1,151 meters, with a Byzantine tower at its core.
Sirolo
Province: Ancona
A clifftop borgo at 125 meters, above the Due Sorelle sea stacks of the Adriatic.
Penne
Province: Pescara
The brick city at 438 meters between the Tavo and Fino, ancient capital of the Vestini, rebuilt after Allied bombing and awarded the Silver Medal of Civic Merit.
Palazzolo Acreide
Province: Siracusa
An 8,000-resident hilltop town on the Iblei plateau at 670m, rebuilt entirely in late Baroque after the 1693 earthquake and founded over the Greek Akrai colony in 664 BC, with a Greek theatre and a cluster of rock carvings unlike anything else nearby.
Verucchio
Province: Rimini
A spur over the lower Marecchia valley, cradle of the Villanovan civilization and birthplace of the Malatesta lordship of Romagna.