Dro

The name is an oak: Dro probably comes from the Celtic dru, though the village appears as Dro only in 1307. The coat of arms, however, puts an olive tree, and in the historic versions the tree was ringed by the words Omnia tellus fert, «the earth bears everything»: a boast about the microclimate, and not an idle one, because here the olive is grown at its northern limit in Italy, along with the vines and the plums the village dries.

In 1703, during the French invasion of the Trentino, Dro escaped sacking thanks to a church: that of Sant'Antonio di Padova, built in 1667 by the Magnifica Comunità di Dro e Ceniga, because the duke of Vendôme who commanded the troops was deeply devoted to that saint. North of the village lie the Marocche, the largest landslide field of glacial origin in the Alpine arc: a chaos of enormous boulders along the Sarca, which in Habsburg times they tried to reforest with black pine and Aleppo pine.