Roccabruna Palace

Palazzo Roccabruna is a Renaissance palace located in the heart of the city of Trento.  The building is now the "House of Trentino products", a reference point for enthusiasts and operators eager to learn more about the food and wine and craftsmanship aspects that express the most authentic vocation of our province.

The Trento Chamber of Commerce, which owns it, has dedicated it to the promotion of the territory and its products. Its rooms, which preserve an artistic heritage of great value, are the setting for events and events that aim to accompany consumers in the discovery of wine, the most representative agri-food and artisanal products of Trentino, and to spread a product culture anchored to the territory, its traditions and its history. Since September 2007 it has also been home to the Enoteca provinciale del Trentino: in its rooms you can admire a splendid historical collection of over 600 labels from Trentino from the 1940s to the 1980s that tell the story of wine in the province of Trento and taste the wines of Trentino in combination with the food and wine products of our tradition.

But Palazzo Roccabruna is not only a place to enhance the territory, it is also a place to visit for its historical-artistic value. Built in the 16th century by the will of Gerolamo Roccabruna, canon of the cathedral of Trento, the building declares its function as a representation from the façade on which the celebratory signs of the greatness of Cardinal Madruzzo and his collaborator Canon stand out. Inside between two wings of Cesari unfolds a stucco wrap with floral decorations, it is the hall: the triumph of Renaissance classicism. The Council of Trento is the historical background that animates the life of the sixteenth century in Trentino and it is in this period that the ambassador of the King of Spain, the Count of Luna, chooses the Palace as the official seat of his delegation.

The main hall celebrates the glories of the Roccabruna; from the entrance, the gaze is captured by a sequence of symbols: an anthropomorphic yellow sun, a flowery heliotrope and the cryptogram N, S, M. Recent studies have revealed that behind the enigma hides the heraldic feat of Jerome II. "Nec Sorte Movebor", or "Not even fate will be able to distract me",  is the Latin motto suggested by the three letters that seals a symbolic representation in which the religious fervor of the Canon is identified in the dedication with which the elytropium follows the course of the sun. Beyond the back wall is the private Chapel dedicated to the eponymous saint. It is one of the few public oratories that preserves a complete and refined pictorial apparatus of the late sixteenth century. A tradition of the last century would even attribute to Titian the face of the Canon, depicted in prayer on one of the walls.

Today Palazzo Roccabruna is the space for the enhancement of provincial economic resources: agri-food, artisanal, industrial products and tourist offers that positively characterize the image of Trentino on a local, but also, and above all, national and international horizon.