The 10 Best Things to do Good for a Rainy Day in Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

How do you feel about entering a SACRED and a bit magical world? It's right here, under the Congress Hall of Andalo... a place where everything seems to have become smaller to be easily visited in all of its beauty. Do you know the park Italia in Miniatura? The idea is very similar, here in Andalo you can see a similar exhibition but with a religious-based topic. They're the sacred miniatures of the permanent exhibition, that offers a series of masterpieces of solidarity created by the experts hands of Gino e Ivan Simoni and starting from this year, there's also the wooden nativity scene created by Elio Pellegrini. Cathedrals, houses, detailed sacred representations that are real masterpieces to find out and be amazed! A special and unmissable world that will surprise and marvel you and your children. Remember...the magic of this place is created only if you talk quietly. An unmissable visit during your holidays in Andalo!

Meet here the world’s famous chalcolithic ice mummy called "Ötzi, the Iceman" who was found with all his belongings on the Similaun glacier in 1991. Situated in the city center of Bolzano (pedestrian area), the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology displays the oldest wet mummy in a sophisticated ice cell and shows Neolithic craftmanship in his equipment: the world’s most antique clothes and the hunting equipment with the world's oldest fully preserved copper axe.

The Buonconsiglio Castle is the largest and most important monumental complex of the Trentino Alto Adige region. It was the residence of the prince-bishops of Trento from the 13th century to the end of the 18th century, and is composed of a series of buildings of different eras, enclosed by walls and positioned slightly higher than the city. Castelvecchio is the oldest nucleus, dominated by an imposing cylindrical tower; the Magno Palazzo is the 16th century expansion in the Italian Renaissance-style as commissioned by the Prince-Bishop and Cardinal Bernardo Cles (1485-1539); the Baroque-style Giunta Albertiana dates from the end of the 17th century. At the extreme south of the complex is the Torre Aquila, within which is conserved the famous Cycle of the Months, one of the most fascinating secular pictorial cycles of the late Middle Ages.

The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, the Mart, is located in Trentino, in northern Italy, and is one of the most important italian museums. Its large complex has been designed by the swiss architect Mario Botta, together with the Rovereto engineer Giulio Andreolli, and inaugurated in Rovereto on 15 December 2002.Mart has seen almost 2 million of visitors to date, and has produced original and innovative exhibitions - such as "Mountain art science myth", "The dance of the avant-gardes", "The Word in Art", "The Century of Jazz" or "Futurism 100"; exhibitions on Italian artists such as Medardo Rosso, Luigi Russolo, Thayaht, Fausto Melotti, Mario Sironi, Carol Rama, Alighiero Boetti, Vincenzo Agnetti.

Housed in the Castle of Rovereto, it is one of the most important Italian museums dedicated to the First World War. It offers two possible itineraries: one is dedicated to the armies and wars of the Nineteenth century and the Great War, with objects, photographs and materials concerning trench warfare and the experience of civilians, the other leads to the discovery of the fortified towers and tunnels of the Castle, housing collections of weapons from prehistoric times to the modern-age.

The Early Christian basilica of Saint Vigilius was built outside the city walls presumably around the end of the fourth century. The structure’s original purpose was as a burial place for the missionaries in Anaunia Sisinius, Martyrius, and Alexander, murdered in the Val di Non by pagans on 29 May 397. Alongside the martyrs Vigilius, the third bishop and the patron saint of Trent was also buried.