La Campana e la Città

For the centenary of Maria Dolens: a photographic exhibition at the Museum of the City of Rovereto and the reopening of the Bell Room at the MITAG.

Rovereto celebrates this important anniversary with the photographic exhibition “La Campana e la Città. From the Castle to the Colle di Miravalle (1925–1965)”, which, through the evocative power of archival images, restores a fragment of the city’s history. The exhibition, curated by Alice Salavolti and open to visitors at the Museum of the City of Rovereto from the 2nd of November, 2025, to the 11th of January, 2026, was born from the desire to recount the period when the Maria Dolens Bell stood atop the Malipiero Tower of the Castle, an image now lost but for decades a distinctive symbol of the city.

The photographs come from the archives of the Fondazione Campana dei Caduti, the MITAG – Italian War History Museum, the Fondazione Museo Civico, and the History Laboratory of Rovereto, documenting the first forty years in the life of Maria Dolens.

On Sunday, November 2, 2025, MITAG will open its halls free of charge from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (last admission at 5:00 p.m.) and will present to the public the reopening of the Bell Room, definitively returned to the city after a meticulous restoration. The renewed and evocative space will welcome visitors on a journey dedicated to the history of Maria Dolens and its deep bond with the Rovereto community.

The photographic exhibition and the reopening of the Bell Room ideally dialogue with one another, offering a unified vision of Rovereto’s historical memory—a city that has managed to preserve and reinterpret its symbols, renewing over time the meaning of the Bell born to remember and to unite.

The exhibition is part of a project funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento, led by the Vallagarina Community, in cooperation with the Municipality of Rovereto, and the ApT Rovereto Vallagarina and Monte Baldo.