Editing Trento (section)

== Economy ==
[[File:Pergola trentino.JPG|thumb|left|Vineyard in Trento]]

The city owes much of its unique economy to its position along the main communication route between Italy and Northern Europe and to the Adige river which, prior to its diversion in the mid-19th century, ran through the center of the city. The Adige river was formerly a navigable river and one of the main commercial routes in the Alps. The original course of the river is now covered by the Via Torre Vanga, Via Torre Verde and the Via Alessandro Manzoni.

As late as World War II, Trento depended on wine-making and silk.<ref>Taylor 40:224.</ref> Sparkling wine made in the Trentino province is part of the [[Trento DOC]] classification. The manufacturing industry installed in the post-war period has been mostly dismantled. Today, Trento thrives on commerce, services, tourism, high-quality agriculture and food industry (including wine and fruit), as a research and conference center thanks to a small but renowned [[University of Trento|university]] and internationally renowned research centers such as ''Fondazione Bruno Kessler'', active in both fundamental and applied research, the Italian-German Historical Institute, the Centre for Computational and Systems Biology  and ECT*, active in theoretical nuclear studies and part of FBK, and as logistics and transportation thoroughfare.{{cn|date=December 2022}}

Valued pink and white [[porphyry (geology)|porphyry]] are still excavated from some surrounding areas (Pila).{{cn|date=December 2022}} This stone can be seen in many of Trento's buildings, both new and old.

The city has two long-running annual sporting events: the [[Giro al Sas]] (a {{convert|10|km|0|abbr=on}} professional road running competition) was first held in the city in 1907 and continues to the present,<ref name=Storia>[http://www.sportrentino.it/portale/novitast/pagina.asp?pid=8 Un balzo nel passato] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722055434/http://www.sportrentino.it/portale/novitast/pagina.asp?pid=8 |date=22 July 2011 }} {{in lang|it}}. Giro al Sas. Retrieved 2010-11-03.</ref> while the [[Giro del Trentino]] is an annual [[road cycling race]] which the city has hosted every year since 1963.<ref>[http://www.girodeltrentino.com/EN/1/9/Albo-Doro.htm Albo d’oro dal 1962 al 2009] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207094414/http://www.girodeltrentino.com/EN/1/9/Albo-Doro.htm |date=7 December 2010 }}. Giro al Trentino. Retrieved 2010-11-03.</ref>

=== Economy Festival of Trento ===

The Festival dell’Economia di Trento (Economy Festival of Trento) was brought into being in 2006{{cn|date=December 2022}} in order to enable and facilitate discussions between economists and a broad public. The aim of this festival is to put economic terminology across to everyone. The festival takes place every year at the end of May on the historic Palazzi of the old town in Trento. Well known economists explain and interpret current economic issues, both from an economic-scientific as well as from a social and entrepreneurial viewpoint. In the course of recent years, numerous economic scholars and managers such as Sir [[Tony Atkinson|Anthony Atkinson]], [[Fan Gang]], [[Zygmunt Bauman]] and the Nobel Prize winner [[Gary Becker]] took an active part.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.trentino.com/en/highlights/tradition-and-culture/economy-festival-trento/|title=Economy Festival Trento|publisher=trentino.com|access-date=2017-12-02}}</ref>