Palazzo Sardagna, the seat of the Rectorate of the University at 14 via Calepina, opens its doors to the public and displays its cultural and historic heritage. 

The guided tours organized by APT Trento on Saturday afternoons in the historic centre will include Palazzo Sardagna. The tours will make a short stop at the Rectorate and continue to nearby Palazzo Roccabruna. 

Visitors will have the opportunity to admire the frescoes of Marcello Fogolino that adorn two of the ground floor rooms.

For information and reservations please visit the website of the tourist office of Trento, Monte Bondone, Valle dei Laghi.

For information:
APT Trento, Monte Bondone, Valle dei Laghi
Piazza Dante, 24 - 38122 Trento
Telephone +39 0461 216000
Fax +39 0461 216060
info [at] discovertrento.it

The University of Trento participates in ‘Palazzi Aperti’, the initiative launched by the Municipality of Trento and the Autonomous Province of Trento for the spring season.

Palazzo Sardagna
Palazzo Sardagna, at 14 via Calepina, a masterpiece of Mannerism and the early Baroque period in Trentino, hosts the offices of the Rectorate of the University of Trento. The building dates from the 16th century, considered the golden age of Trentino, due in large part to the patronage of the prince-bishop Bernardo Clesio. There are no documents relating to the first owners of Palazzo Sardagna, and it is not known when construction began. The only certain dates are 1535-1540, the period in which Marcello Fogolino painted frescoes in two of the ground floor rooms. In the seventeenth century alterations were made to the building, including the construction of the façade. The building is centred around a large courtyard, the largest of all those in the city’s historic buildings. The entrance hall, decorated with coats of arms and flanked by Fogolino’s frescoed rooms, leads to from the outside to the courtyard, with its double loggia and long galleries.