Molino Vittoria, Università di Trento

A large red-orange historic mill building with a tall tower and green trees in front. — The Molino Vittoria in Trento, a red-orange industrial building with a central tower, seen from ground level with trees in the foreground. Photo: Stefano Vigolo, 2010.

Trento · San Giuseppe – Santa Chiara · University administrative headquarters

A former industrial mill on Via Verdi in Trento, now the administrative headquarters of the University of Trento. Its south front carries two large statues of Ceres and Mercury.

At a glance

The building stands at Via Verdi 6, near the railway line in Trento. The Comune di Trento identifies it as a university site, while trentinomese records that it was built as an expansion of an earlier industrial bakery.

Key facts

Where: Via Verdi 6, Trento
What: University administrative headquarters
When: 1912
GPS: 46.0662, 11.1161 · Open in Google Maps

History

The Comune di Trento states that the building was constructed in 1912 by the engineer Stolcis of Trento for grain processing, and that its position near the railway was meant to help the arrival of wheat. After a fire in 1921, the owner added a tower with a water storage tank. The University of Trento bought the building in 1989, and restoration work ended in 2002.

Roberto Pancheri, writing in trentinomese, gives a slightly different chronology: the project was approved by the municipal commission in 1911, work concluded in August 1912, a fire destroyed the mill in 1919, and it was rebuilt in 1922.

What you see

The photographs show a red-orange building with a tall central tower. On the south front there are two colossal seated figures in cement mortar. The Comune identifies them as Ceres and Mercury; trentinomese adds that they carry the attributes of a sickle and a caduceus, and that their author is the sculptor Remo Stringari, based on a period photograph by Giulio Rosetti.

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Nearby

Santa Maria della Vittoria Church — shares the «Vittoria» dedication in the same city
Casa Vittoria — another Trento place with the Vittoria name

Gallery

The same red mill building seen from behind a construction fence and overhead wires. — Molino Vittoria viewed through a white construction barrier, with an industrial crane and overhead power lines crossing the scene Photo: Stefano Vigolo, 2010.

Sources

Comune di Trento, Molino Vittoria, Università di Trento: construction date, address, fire, tower, university acquisition and restoration, statues of Ceres and Mercury
trentinomese, Il Molino Vittoria e l’enigma dei colossi: project approval, construction, fire, rebuilding, sculptor Remo Stringari, iconography of the statues
OpenStreetMap, Way: Molino Vittoria: coordinates and address
Stefano Vigolo, photographs and notes to the editorial staff (2026): identification of the subject as university administrative headquarters. Not a published source

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