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Rovereto (; "wood of "; locally: Roveredo) is a city and comune in Trentino in northern Italy, located in the Vallagarina valley of the Adige River.
The town has therefore different reminiscences: a leaf shape (the blazon image is "The Town of the Oak" and, as a lanceolate leaf forms the antique part of the town, it recalls the lance of the Roman army) which in other regards is completed by a coquille form of plan, with more of archaeological expectations, as a radiant line, that in some aspects, may recall to us again the triangular geometric construction of a pure alignment of elements. Up to the mountains, with a hermitage built on the rocks, San Colombano on its way up there is on the left the castles of the town, which has become a memorial museum of the history of the wars as the First World War was close to these boundaries.
In 1509 it became an exclave of the Habsburg (Austrian) County of Tyrol and remained so until Trent was absorbed into Tyrol in the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.
In the 16th and 17th centuries the town had a development of cultural and educational institutions, with a call for building from the architects of Lombardy (Comaschi-builders-stone workers), for a unity of style, which does not lack curious humour: at every corner, of the Renaissance part of the city – faces, masked and frowning, when not regarding with such stern expression to surprise, are merging some visible points. The history of education starts its scholarship with Descartes's idea of a human being, with its cathedra threshold of anatomy and renews its philosophic pedagogy with the priest – philosopher Antonio Rosmini, in the aesthetic tradition of text–art resources. Roads are therefore built in a rational cut: brevity, then clarity and scientific development of the thought. In the 16th century, the expansion of the town permits to continue the construction of small but high buildings and to use the river to structure small canals for water. Therefore, the colour industry starts with silk and textile its adventure from the more advanced and widespread Venetian corners.
On 4 September 1796, during the War of the First Coalition (French Revolutionary Wars) the Battle of Rovereto took place resulting in victory for the forces of the First French Republic against the Habsburg forces. During the Napoleonic Wars Rovereto was controlled by Bavaria from 1805 (Peace of Pressburg, from 1808 within the ), then the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy from 1809 (Treaty of Schönbrunn, Department of Alto Adige). It returned to Austrian Empire control (as part of the County of Tyrol) in 1815 following the Congress of Vienna. Rovereto was the centre of Kreis Roveredo, one of the seven Kreise within Tyrol and Vorarlberg until 1849.
The 19th century is characterized by the influence of the rediscovery of the romance history, with all the consequences of ratios: a tribunal is placed in the area of the new town, with the main external road in its proximities. In a certain regard, it could be said that it is the handle of Saint Catherine's sword on the right side of the Corso where we can find the monastery. Indeed, the road ends up with a piazza and a corner toward the meridian Corso ( New Corso – Corso Nuovo) that brings us to the Licei. The organization of the triangular setting is quite easy to collect as a zoning system of areas: we can find a trivium of the oldest part of the town, in its original settlement – but a rational Euclidean square corner in the Modern; an extension of the triangular area that develops and gathers some of the actualized styles of Roman genres (the 19th century and the Post Modern, as Fortunato Depero discovered) at its base on the main road to the Province of Trento.
After World War 1, southern Tyrol, including Rovereto, passed to the Kingdom of Italy in the Treaty of Saint-Germain.
The town in the 20th century (the Novecento) was recognized as a Peace Town for its Courtois origin and because of its colossal bell dedicated to the fallen people of the "Grande Guerra". A university organized around the theme, is actually not only a mere representation of a witness. We might say that the structure of this town has constitutional de-tensive equilibrium, of a pragmatic strategy of the forces it is possible as resistance, far from being a method to reduce conflicts by themselves. A tensive weight, in favour of which, to quote Luciano Anceschi, is placed the torsions of our Baroque rediscovery of the translation ideas that enrich languages, guides the Italian lexicon to be reflective and transparent in its style and town planning. Within this frame some of our most famous physicists studied here as Ivo Modena.
The town is located at the southern edge of the Italian Alps, near the Dolomites. It is bordered by Monte Cengialto ( above sea level) to the east.
In the area of Lavini di Marco footprints of dinosaurs have been found. The species have been identified as the herbivorous Camptosaurus and carnivorous Dilophosaurus.
Marco also hosts a large landslide which was mentioned by Dante Alighieri in his Divina Commedia: "Qual è quella ruina che nel fianco di qua da Trento l'Adice percosse, o per tremoto o per sostegno manco" (Inferno, canto XII).
Rovereto is the birthplace (1941) of Sferoflex eyeglasses, now taken over by Luxottica. Other relevant companies located in Rovereto are Marangoni Pneumatici, Sandoz, Cioccolato Cisa, and Metalsistem. Rovereto is also home to Pama S.p.A. machine tool builder.
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