important centre for the manufacture of silk fabrics. Currently, wine, rubber, chocolate, glasses and coffee are the town's main businesses. Rovereto is the birthplace (1941) of Sferoflex eyeglasses, now taken over by Luxottica. Other relevant companies located in Rovereto are Marangoni Pneumatici, Sandoz Industrial Products S.p.A., Cioccolato Cisa, and Metalsistem. Rovereto is also home to Pama S.p.A. machine tool builder. Transport Rovereto railway station, opened in 1859, forms part of the Brenner railway, which links Verona with Innsbruck. People Gaspare Antonio Cavalcabò Baroni (1682–1759) Baroque painter Girolamo Tartarotti (born 1706), author Bianca Laura Saibante (1723–1797), poet Giuseppe Tomaselli (1758–1836), operatic tenor Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (1763–1842), musician Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (1797–1855), priest, philosopher and founder of the Institute of Charity (The Rosminians) Gustavo Venturi (1830–1898), a bryologist whose herbarium is now kept at the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali in Trento. Riccardo Zandonai (born 1883), composer Fortunato Depero (1892–1960), artist Fausto Melotti (1901–1986), artist and sculptor Carlo Belli (1901–1991), artist and writer Ivo Modena (born 1929), physics researcher Maria Pia Gardini (1936–2012), entrepreneur and critic of Scientology Valerio Fioravanti (born 1958), founder of the terrorist group Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari Paolo Seganti (born 20 May 1965), actor, author Sport Silvano Bresadola (1906-2002), football player Armando Aste (born 1926), influential Italian alpinist of the postwar period Marco Martinelli (born 1965), a former volleyball player who earned 155 caps for the Italy men's national volleyball team Elena Tonetta (born 1988), archer and 2005 Junior European Champion Massimo Parziani (born 1992), Motorcycle racer Cesare Benedetti (born 1987), professional cyclist. Twin towns and sister cities Rovereto is twinned with: Bento Gonçalves, Brazil Dolní Dobrouč, Czech Republic Forchheim, Germany Kufstein, Austria See also Vallagarina (district) List of Podestà of Rovereto References External links Official website Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto Blog OcchioDiRovereto Massa Critica Rovereto Italian War Museum in Rovereto ViaggiaRovereto (Android Application) – Implemented as part of SmartCampus project, the research project founded by TrentoRise, UNITN, and FBK Cities and towns in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol