The Mozart Route

Rovereto is not a large town, but the industriousness of its inhabitants, most of whom are engaged in viticulture and silk weaving, has made it a pleasant place to live. There are many friendly houses and the foreigners are warmly received“ noted Leopold Mozart, father of Amadeus on 7 January 1770 in Verona during his trip to Italy with his son Amadeus. They had started in Salzburg on 13 December 1769 for a journey to Italy (they will descend to Naples), which at that time was considered the land of music par excellence, a source of creativity and an opportunity for important encounters. They travel by carriage, with large suitcases in tow: an exhausting journey on rough roads and with the danger of robbery, which ended 15 months later, on 28 March 1771, in Salzburg. They arrive on 24 December in Rovereto, a small town on the border between Germanic and Latin cultures. They stay at the Hotel Zur Rose (alla Rosa; commemorative plaque), in the bottleneck of Corso Bettini - the same where