Borgo Valsugana is a comune (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian

Italy

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 region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 30 km east of Trento

Trento

Trento is an Italian city located in the Adige River valley in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. It is the capital of Trentino...

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Borgo Valsugana borders the following municipalities: Telve

Telve

Telve is a comune in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 30 km east of Trento...

, Telve di Sopra

Telve di Sopra

Telve di Sopra is a comune in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 25 km east of Trento. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 619 and an area of 17.8 km²....

, Torcegno

Torcegno

Torcegno is a comune in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 35 km east of Trento. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 677 and an area of 15.2 km²....

, Ronchi Valsugana

Ronchi Valsugana

Ronchi Valsugana is a comune in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 25 km east of Trento. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 380 and an area of 10.0 km²....

, Roncegno

Roncegno

Roncegno Terme is a comune in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 20 km east of Trento.-Geography:...

, Castelnuovo, Novaledo

Novaledo

Novaledo is a comune in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located in the Bassa Valsugana valley about 20 km southeast of Trento...

, Levico Terme

Levico Terme

Levico Terme is a comune in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 15 km southeast of Trento...

, and Asiago

Asiago

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Geography

Borgo is located in one of the tightest parts of Valsugana

Valsugana

The Sugana Valley is one of the most important valleys in the autonomous province of Trentino in Northern Italy. Leading into the Alps' foothills, an important main north-south Roman road, the Via Claudia Augusta, one of Europe's main roads since its construction in Antiquity, winds along the...

, in between mount Ciolino and mount Rocchetta, neither very high. It grew on the two sides of river Brenta

Brenta

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 and its ancient part is the only one in Trentino to occupy both sides of a river (Trento

Trento

Trento is an Italian city located in the Adige River valley in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. It is the capital of Trentino...

, for instance, is located on only one side of river Adige

Adige

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History

Borgo Valsugana, whose ancient name was Ausugum (the main street of the town, indeed, is named "Corso Ausugum"), used to be a Roman settlement along the Claudia Augusta Altinate road which connected Altino to Tridentum (ancient name for Trento

Trento

Trento is an Italian city located in the Adige River valley in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. It is the capital of Trentino...

) and then to Augsburg

Augsburg

Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...

, nowadays in Germany

Germany

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Thanks to its location at the bottom of an open valley, the town always benefited from trade. Noblemen from Castelnuovo and Caldonazzo

Caldonazzo

Caldonazzo is a comune in Valsugana, in Trentino, northern Italy.The nearby Lake of Caldonazzo is the source of the Brenta River....

 and the Welsperg family used to govern the town and its surroundings.

In 1862 a huge fire destroyed a large part of the town, whose buildings were largely built using wood.

From 1943 to 1945 the antifascist partisans fought in the framework of the "Gherlenda" battailon of the Garibaldine brigade "Antonio Gramsci" located in Feltre

Feltre

Feltre is a town and comune of the province of Belluno in Veneto, northern Italy. A hill town in the southern reaches of the province, it is located on the Stizzon River, about 4 km from its junction with the Piave, and 20 km southwest from Belluno...

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External links

Official website