Trento's market occupies Piazza Fiera against the medieval city walls and Piazza Cesare Battisti, with around ninety chalets of Trentino craft and food — speck, canederli, mulled wine from local grapes. The setting is a Renaissance city of painted facades, where the Council of Trent sat for eighteen years in the sixteenth century.
No attendance figure is recorded here in this pass.
The distinction from Bolzano is cultural rather than scenic. Trento is Italian-speaking and Italian in its food; Bolzano, thirty minutes north by train, is German-speaking and Austrian in its. Visitors who do both in a day notice the change at the station.
The window runs from late November into early January. The Dolomites behind the city make this the Christmas market most often combined with a ski week.
PlanningA six-week window; Trento is Italian-speaking, unlike Bolzano half an hour north.