Trentino is the most sport-oriented province of Italy. This statement was affirmed by the Clas research Group and published by Sole 24 Ore, the most prestigious economic newspaper of our country which has crowned our province after using 33 different parameters.

Thanks to these criteria, Trentino has collected 779,9 points ahead of Genoa (771,9) and Perugia (741,0), followed by Bolzano, Parma, Livorno, Trieste, Florence, Cagliari and Treviso. In this article Giacomo Bagnasco underlines that elements such as the high number of sport affiliates (the highest in Italy), the outcomes achieved, the infrastructures of quality and the support that the province and the institutions give to the sport practice, make our province the most sporting province of Italy, benchmarking 7 times in different sport categories. For instance, Trentino is in third place among the provinces for individual sports, in 4th place for “sport and society” and in 22nd place for team sports. For these reasons, Trentino is the ideal place where to practice sports like skiing or cycling, but also athletics and tennis, while with regard to team sports the most important prestigious is the national championships won by Trentino Volley and Trentino Cricket.

The list of the single athletes of Trentino able to achieve success in the disciplines mentioned above is rather long: Moser, Zorzi, Anesi, coming to more “niche” sports (which are very spread in Trentino, as Sole 24 Ore underlines) such as water skiing with Thomas Degasperi, or archery with Jessica Tomasi. The quality of facilities and the public intervention are very important.  Sport becomes the healthy symbol of outdoor activities. “We are a real outdoor gym – as explained by the provincial minister of agriculture, woods, and tourism Tiziano Mellarini -  and it’s for this reason that we want to make our province known also through sports excellences”. This statistic explains better the concept of “Active holiday” which has become one of the strong points of our region’s tourist offer. Trentino is a place where relaxation meets everybody’s interest in keeping fit and active.

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