Archaeological city museum, Pegognaga
The Roman finds in this museum come from an archaeological site near the parish church of San Lorenzo, dating from the times of Matilda of Tuscany, and prove the existence of a small rural vicus on t...
Read moreBonifica di Revere pumping station
The pumping station was completed in 1926 as part of the Revere reclamation project.
Its purpose was to drain water from the Oltrepò areas to the right of the River Secchia into the Po. The wa...
Read moreBorgoforte fort
Also called Forte Centrale or Forte Magnaguti, this was built in 1859, along with Forte Noyon in Motteggiana, on the right bank of the River Po, and the Rocchetta and Bocca di Ganda forts, above and ...
Read moreCentro Eridano
A building of considerable architectural and historic worth converted to a visitor reception centre for the Isola Boscone nature reserve.
Read moreChiavica Vallazza
The Chiavica Vallazza divides the Fossalta canal, the oldest in the Oltrepò area, to the right of the River Secchia and dating from the 15C, into two stretches historically known as the Fossal...
Read moreChurch Annunciazione della Beata Vergine Maria
Attributed to Giovanni Maria Borsotto and erected in 1756-1776, this was the church of the Carmelitan fathers, as confirmed by the statue of St Albert on the second altar on the right. In 1751, Giuse...
Read moreChurch Assunzione della Beata Vergine Maria, Pieve di Coriano
As stated in a XVI century plaque on its façade, they believe that the church was built on the orders of countess Matilda of Tuscany. Actually, it was already there in 980 and it was related t...
Read moreChurch of Cristo Redentore
Built in 1979, this is dedicated to Jesus Christ the Redeemer of Mankind, in memory of Pope John Paul II’s first encyclical.
Set in a central space with several other public buildings, the new ...
Read moreChurch of St Biagio
The present parish church, at San Biagio, was constructed between 1764 and 1780 to replace a previous one, built in the 14C, and dedicated for worship ten years later. It was provided with major rest...
Read moreChurch of St Celestino I pope
As early as 1037, a church dedicated to Pope St Celestine, of which no trace remains, stood at Pietole in a hamlet that once existed by the River Mincio.
The rediscovery of the body of St Celestine c...
Read moreChurch of St Erasmo and Agostino
This parish church was built in 1756 and completed in 1805 to 18C baroque models and has decorative similarities to Sant’Andrea in Mantua. The bell-tower, in a Lombard Gothic style resembling t...
Read moreChurch of St Felicita and Sette Fratelli Martiri
Already present in the 14C and rebuilt from 1339 on by bishop Gotifredo of Mantua, this church features three large windows on the facade. Inside, it has three aisles and a transept. The central aisl...
Read moreChurch of St Filippo and Giacomo
The parish church was built in about 1695. The then parish priest, Father Giacinto Cagnoli, abandoned the dilapidated church that stood at the Torri and built this one.
Recently cleaned inside, it fo...
Read moreChurch of St Gervasio and Protasio Martyrs
This church has extremely old roots although the present construction can be dated to between 1730 and 1741, the time of its radical refurbishment by Paolo Soratini from Camoldoli in the province of ...
Read moreChurch of St Giacomo Maggiore
The parish church was built in 1790, also on the riverbank. As early as the Middle Ages, Bonizzo had its own place of worship but, as if the River Po were not enough, this was destroyed by a violent ...
Read moreChurch of St Giorgio martyr
This imposing church standing on the main Cisa road is of clearly neo-16C inspiration. Built to a design by Veronese architect Paolo Pozzo, it was completed in 1798. The Saint’s day is celebrat...
Read moreChurch of St Giovanni Battista
Consecrated in 1550, this was completely rebuilt in 1788 following damage caused by a violent hurricane. Situated on the riverbank in the hamlet of Bonizzo, it conserves a precious painting depicting...
Read moreChurch of St Giovanni Battista
The present parish church was inaugurated in 1863 but recent restoration work has uncovered traces of an early Romanesque church facing east-west that was partially restructured between the late 16C ...
Read moreChurch of St Girolamo
The parish church is dedicated to St Jerome, priest and Doctor of the Church. It was built from scratch by Duke Guglielmo Gonzaga, on the site of an old tower which was converted to a bell-tower, in ...
Read moreChurch of St Maria Assunta
The church of Santa Maria Assunta was built in 1580 and has a simple but unusual facade of pink and white marble ashlars. The interior has just a nave and was decorated in 1767 by Gaetano Ghidetti wi...
Read moreChurch of St Maria Assunta and St Cristoforo in Castello
The archpretal church known as in Castello was once inside the walls of Viadana. From 700 AD, there are records of a chapel on the site of the present church dedicated to St Christopher, who remained...
Read moreChurch of St Martino and St Nicola
The earliest record this church dates from 1442. In 1571, the church of San Martino, which stood one kilometre south of the riverbank, was destroyed by flooding and a more secure location was chosen ...
Read moreChurch of St Michele Arcangelo
The parish church originally dates from the 17C but was radically renovated in 1958 in the modern style.
The Archangel Michael is depicted in the apse as well as in a fine 18C painting in the chapel,...
Read moreChurch of St Michele Arcangelo
The church stands in the middle of town. Of mediaeval origin, it was built in 1460 but the Gothic-revival facade dates from the last century. A large square separates it from the main Abetone-Brenner...
Read moreChurch of St Michele Arcangelo
Dedicated to two patron saints, St Michael the Archangel and St Andrew the Apostle, this church is the product of two successive reconstructions: in or around 1476, an early oratory became the site o...
Read moreChurch of St Michele Arcangelo
A plaque on the exterior commemorates Monsignor Luigi Martini, spiritual comforter of the Belfiore Martyrs and born in Sustinente.
Founded by the monks of Polirone, its present architecture, now resto...
Read moreChurch of St Pietro Apostolo
The present parish church was commenced in 1750 and completed in 1830. It boasts one of the finest organs in the diocese. St Peter the Apostle is the patron saint of the parish.
In the Middle Ages, t...
Read moreChurch of St Rocco
Until the late 16C this small oratory was the seat of the Confraternita dei Disciplini. The present architectural structure dates from the early 17C. Inside is a nave with two side chapels and it end...
Read moreChurch of St. Agata
An 18C parish church featuring an imposing cycle of frescoes painted by Giorgio Anselmi of Verona in 1792-1793.
The artist (also responsible for the Sala dei Fiumi in Palazzo Ducale, the dome of Sant...
Read moreChurch of St. Bartolomeo Apostolo
This church was rebuilt in 1732 from the foundations and in the centre of town to a design by Giovanni Maria Borsotto from Ticino. It features a fairly complex and unusual pillar arrangement, with a ...
Read moreChurch of St. Biagio in Zello
This small church dedicated to St Blaise is mentioned in a document of 1279. It conserves votive frescoes stylistically similar to those of Pieve di Coriano, executed by local artists between the lat...
Read moreChurch of St. Cataldo
This late-17C construction of modest architectural interest conserves a well-executed crucifix on the main altar. One of the parish rooms also contains a fine picture depicting St Aloysius Gonzaga att...
Read moreChurch of St. Fiorentino Martire
This is one of the most ancient monuments in Basso Mantovano. It first appears in documents in 1059, but it seems to be really older.Its Latin Cross layout and three apses remind of St. Mary church i...
Read moreChurch of St. Giacomo Maggiore
The parish church, at San Giacomo Po, is no longer the one mentioned in documents of the 16C and 17C but was built between 1906 and 1909, away from the master banks of the River Po with materials fro...
Read moreChurch of St. Giorgio Martire
This church stands on the site of an oratory of the second half of the 15C, formerly dedicated to St George the Martyr. It was built to a design by the architect Pietro Antonio Maggi from Viadana, wh...
Read moreChurch of St. Giovanni Battista
Constructed between 1723 and 1729 to a design by Ticino architect Giovanni Maria Borsotto, this church has an unfaced two-level stone facade. The section of the pediment above the entrance is interru...
Read moreChurch of St. Giovanni Battista
This church has a Virgin with Saints by Giandomenico Cignaroli (1769). In the choir is another important painting in the Mantuan Mannerist style depicting the Baptism of Christ, initially attributed ...
Read moreChurch of St. Maria Assunta
Designed with a nave in late-Baroque style by the renowned architect from Viadana, Pietro Antonio Maggi, the interior is enriched with paintings by Scotti of Brescia and Morini of Viadana. It has a p...
Read moreChurch of St. Nicola di Bari
Constructed around 1600, probably by monks linked to the Abbey of Polirone, the church contains an altarpiece depicting the patron saint and an altar dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, featuring a ...
Read moreChurch of St. Rocco
The parish of San Rocco is situated to the left banks of the River Secchia, along the provincial road between Quistello and Quingentole that joins the main road from Quistello to Poggio Rusco and Fer...
Read moreChurch of Sts Pietro and Paolo
A simple and linear church constructed in the first decades of the 19C.
Read moreChurch of Sts Rocco and Sebastiano
In 1513, a chapel was erected to serve the needs of the Confratelli Bianchi dell'Annunziata, dedicated to Saints Rocco and Sebastian, who have always been closely associated with the plague.
The bre...
Read moreChurch of Sts Vito, Modesto and Crescenzia Martiri
The name of this parish church is uncommon and generally indicates very old foundation. It is, indeed, of very old origin and the stocky solid bell-tower, set against the wall of the presbytery, cons...
Read moreChurch of the Annunciazione
This small baroque construction dates from 1730. Inside, it has a nave and is decorated with gilded stuccowork. A significant painting, attributed to Lorenzo Costa the Younger and dating from the lat...
Read moreChurch of the Assunzione della Beata Vergine Maria
This X century structure was also a Benedictine monastery; Matilda of Tuscany assigned Santa Croce in Sermide to this church, then she enlarged it and aggregated it to Polirone abbey in 1075.
Later i...
Read moreChurch of the Assunzione della Beata Vergine Maria
This parish church celebrates its name-day on 15 August. Set at a bend in the River Po, the church stands close to the main road. With a nave and two aisles, it dates from the final years of the 18C....
Read moreChurch of the Beata Vergine del Carmine
Like all religious buildings, the church of the Beata Vergine del Carmine is linked to a history, tradition of worship, cults and devotions with age-old and deep roots. In the centre of the apse is a...
Read moreChurch of the Beata Vergine Incoronata
An octagonal plan inspired by 15C Lombard models with a Bramante matrix is the distinguishing feature of this church. Erected in 1586 and annexed to the Servite convent, it was painted by Clemente Is...
Read moreChurch of the Immacolata Concezione della Beata Vergine Maria
The late Neoclassical facade overlooks Piazza Garibaldi with its porticoes. The church was designed by the engineer Antonio Arrivabene from Mantua and was completed in 1854, following the demolition o...
Read moreChurch of the Immacolata Concezione di Maria and Beata Osanna Andreasi
The tiny hamlet of Carbonarola (approx. 60 people) boasts a parish church with a rare and unusual oval plan, built in 1649. The corte where the church stands was first owned by the Andreasi family, t...
Read moreChurch of the Natività della Vergine Maria
On 25 April 1979, pope John Paul II blessed the first stone of the new church of Cristo Redentore dell'Uomo, now nearly complete. It is opened for services that attract the largest number of worship...
Read moreChurch of the Sacra Famiglia di Gesù, Maria e Giuseppe
The parish of the Sacra Famiglia was built in 1965. On 14 September 1968, Monsignor Carlo Ferrari blessed the first nucleus of the new parish church comprising a hall-chapel, rectory and oratory.
On ...
Read moreChurch of the Spirito Santo
The parish church of the Spirito Santo in Buzzoletto dates from 1870 and contains frescoes by the painter Miolato of Verona and a Pentecost by Felice Araldi. It ensued from the subdivision of the par...
Read moreComplesso del Forte centrale
These barracks form part of the defensive Quadrilatero of Borgoforte-Motteggiana-Rocchetta-Boccadiganda, a core component of the double bridgehead constructed by the Austrians for defence purposes aro...
Read moreComplex of the Torriana
This residence with main house, church and other buildings, dated 1650, reflects the influence of Giulio Romano.
The church is the most important architectural building, with an entrance loggia and st...
Read moreCorte Bugni
The farm is situated on the border of the municipalities of Tabellano and Torricella. The name stems from the fact that, a long time ago, there used to be several bugni di rotta (the so called Bugni ...
Read moreCorte Castiglioni
A splendid rural aristocratic home, in which, on 6th December 1478 the famous Baldassare author of il Cortegiano was born.
Relevant example of exclusive dwelling dating back to the XV century w...
Read moreCorte Passioncella
A historic complex dating from around 1880 and consisting in a main house, labourers’ dwellings, a barn, cowshed and outhouses.
Read moreCorte Quaranta
A magnificent farmhouse situated below the main dyke of the River Po. Surrounded by splendid scenery, the farm has fortunately been restored and saved from an otherwise certain decline.
Today, this i...
Read moreCorte Recorlandi
A glance at this farm on maps dating from the times of Maria Theresa of Austria immediately reveals that it consists in two quite separate buildings, constructed parallel to Corso di Zara.
The main f...
Read moreCorte Tedolda
A beautiful farm with its own special charm that seems to change shape, depending on where you are standing. Unfortunately, it has been abandoned and is destined to fall into decline. It has all the ...
Read moreDucal Palace, Revere
The ducal palace was originally a Modena fortress, which was built in 1125 and later conquered by Mantuans. They added seven towers and called it the castle of Revere. /After several Po river floods,...
Read moreDucal Palace, Sabbioneta
The ducal palace was the government building of Sabbioneta Duchy. They built it in 1560-1561, after a fire destroyed the previous structure. It is a four floors building, and it was the residence of ...
Read moreEvangelical Waldensian church
For more than a century, a hardworking and solid community has grown up around a religious faith imported from places very different from the Lombard countryside.
We must go back to the history of th...
Read moreForcello Archeological Park
The archaeological park of Forcello di Bagnolo San Vito, a few kms south east of Mantua, rises around the remains of an important Etruscan settlement from VI-IV centuries B.C.. The archaeologic...
Read moreformer Casa del Balilla
The building, initially dubbed 'Casa del Balilla e Palestra', dates back to 1929. Its name is consistent with the framework of sheer and absolute faith as fascist education commanded: the most mass...
Read moreGalleria degli Antichi, Sabbioneta
This large arcade, built in 1584-1586, is an articulated brick building. Strangely, they did not construct it to connect different parts of a building nor two palaces; it just had to host the duke's...
Read moreGalleria del Premio Suzzara museum
Established in 1948 following a proposal by Dino Villani and with the backing of Cesare Zavattini, the prize was notable for its jury, comprising not only of experts but factory, office and farm work...
Read moreGalliano Tower
Galliano seems to have been the name of the builder commissioned by Matilda of Tuscany to construct a castle, destroyed in 1718. All that survives of the complex are one of the seven towers (later co...
Read moreGiuseppe Greggiati Opera Pia Musical Foundation, Ostiglia
The Ostiglia Fund collects autograph scores of Ferdinand Bertoni, Luigi Gatti and his brother George, compositions of Giuseppe Ferrari, Vincenzo Benatti, Giovanni Battista Merighi, Francis Comencini A...
Read moreGonzaga family Town tower
This civic tower is the only one left of the citadel erected by the city of Mantua around the year 1000 and fortified by Ludovico Gonzaga after 1370. It is a solid crenellated tower adorned with an e...
Read moreGonzaga Porticoes, Gazzuolo
The porticoes were constructed in the early 16C for Ludovico Gonzaga, son of Gianfrancesco, under the direction of Andrea Bertazzolo of Acquanegra, father of the more famous Gabriele, and probably ad...
Read moreLa Gonzaghese della Bonifica dell’Agro Mantovano pumping station
An important feature of Oltrepò architecture consists of buildings erected for reclamation work and, here, they played an important role in redesigning the landscape.
One of the principal examp...
Read moreLa Pila da Riso del Galeotto
The mill, which Francesco Galeotti started to build in 1763, maintains its original function and consists in a long building housing the husker and mill with the barn on the first floor, beside which...
Read moreLegenda library system
Instituted in 2002 by merging the Eridano system and the Polirone consortium, the Legenda library system provides services for the libraries of the 21 member towns in the south-east of Mantua, servin...
Read moreMonument to the 'Mondinas'
Created by the local council in 1998, this commemorates the seasonal workers who toiled in the numerous rice paddies in the area on the left side Mincio from the early 20C to the 1960s.
The monument ...
Read moreMu.Vi. - Museo Civico Antonio Parazzi (town museum)
The museum hosts the following collections: fossils, vases, prehistoric tombs and relics, Egyptian statues, Etruscan-Italic relics, Roman coins, sculptures and objects, terracotta, paintings, pyrograp...
Read moreMulino Natante
This picturesque shipmill on the river is an external feature of the museum. It is the only life-size reconstruction of a perfectly operational shipmill, a record of the more than 300 shipmills that ...
Read moreMulino sul Po
With the advent of electricity, the River Po’s floating mills were moved to dry land in the 1930s. The Bonizzo mill was the only one to continue working until the 1980s and is today a folk muse...
Read moreMuseo d`Arte Sacra 'A passo d`Uomo'
This museum is in the old town centre, beside the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta. The building can be dated to the second half of the 16C.
In 1989, the museum was inaugurated with the opening t...
Read moreMuseo delle auto storiche Alfa Romeo
The restoration of the 20C theatre has reinstated the hall’s traditional U-plan, introduced by the architects in the 18C.
The space still responds perfectly to the needs of theatre acoustics but...
Read moreMuseo diffuso del fiume - Conca del Bertazzolo
The lock, designed and constructed by the engineer Gabriele Bertazzolo from 1605 on, and dam, the first of which may be a work ascribable to Alberto Pitentino and aimed at regulating the level of the...
Read moreMuseo diffuso Giuseppe Gorni
Designed by the artist himself, this is a point of reference for the history of local and Italian art. The building was designed between the two wars as a primary school but refurbished to accommodat...
Read moreMuseum of the rural society, Bagnolo San Vito
An ethnological educational museum in an old farm courtyard, not far from the archaeology site, with a rich ethnographic collection and an educational project structured for different young visitor ag...
Read moreOratorio di Santa Margherita di Cortona
The oratory at Campione has a tall, 18C facade and stands in a corte known as Palazzone.
Read moreOratory of St Andrea di Ghisione
Sant'Andrea oratory in Ghisione village is the parish artistic treasure; it stands where once was a Roman villa. It is an original terracotta Romanesque building with three apses. In XV century, the...
Read moreOratory of St. Lorenzo
Built in 1770 to boost local veneration of the Madonna of Loreto, this stands in an area rich in vestiges of the past.
Recent excavations have uncovered a highly significant archaeological complex: t...
Read moreOratory of the Beata Vergine delle Grazie dell'Alberone
This oratory was opened on 17 May 1665.
Around 1660, while workers were demolishing a portico of the house of the affluent Giuseppe Bottesini at Alberone (the name is thought to stem from the dialect...
Read moreOratory of the Beata Vergine di Loreto
The division of Commessaggio into two entities stems from the fact that the larger is a comune, whereas the smaller (called ‘Inferiore’ not because smaller, but for its position in relati...
Read moreOstiglia old castle Towers
There are many sources proving the presence of Ostiglia Old Castle Towers. Nowadays only three of the circle of walls can be seen. One of them is the tower in which is now placed ...
Read morePalazzina Mondadori
Palazzina Mondadori in Ostiglia, first seat of Arnoldo’s printing house, has been recently restored and nowadays is part of the mutual agreement with Regione Lombardia, with the aim to make Arn...
Read morePalazzo del Giardino, Sabbioneta
This suburban villa was a leisure and relaxing place for duke Vespasiano. It is a modest building with a wooden framed white façade. The outside was decked (1582-1588) by painter Bernardino Ca...
Read morePalazzo Gonzaga di Vescovato
Palazzo Gonzaga di Vescovato stands in the village of Portiolo near San Benedetto Po. Privately owned, it was built at various times between the 15C and 17C. This is the earliest example of a villa-c...
Read moreParish church of Barbassolo
The first traces of the church of Barbassolo date from the 12C. The present appearance is fruit of a radical restoration project undertaken in the middle of the last century. The Romanesque imprint o...
Read moreParish church of Santa Croce del Lagurano
Santa Croce – id est Holy Cross – church bears sign of an XI century hermitage. Its apse, bell tower and layout are Romanesque, but it was consecrated only in 1479. The interior is decked...
Read moreParish church of St Antonio Abate
Villa Pasquali is dominated by the imposing parish church of Sant’Antonio Abate, a splendid surprise for anyone visiting a small village. The church is famous for its spectacular architecture a...
Read moreParish church of St Leone Magno
Tradition has it that Pope Leo the Great stopped Attila’s advance at a place called Forte Urbano, not far from here. Records of the previous church are inadequate but it is known to have been r...
Read moreParish church of St Michele Arcangelo
The parish church has a rectangular interior, with harmonious proportions, that extends to the presbytery. The altarpiece in the choir, painted in 1783 by Luigi Niccolini of Mantua and influenced by ...
Read moreParish church of St. Lorenzo Diacono e Martire, Pegognaga
Pegognaga appears in documents as a land estate in 877, and as a parish of Reggio Emilia diocese in 980; San Lorenzo parish was likely known as San Lorenzo di Flexo in early IX century. The bishop of...
Read moreParish church of the Annunciazione della Beata Vergine Maria
The church, designed by Filippo Juvara, is in baroque style with classical influences. It was built in different periods because of frequent flooding of the River Po. Its slender, taut lines make it ...
Read morePharmacopeia Museum
Pharmacopeia Museum displays the Losa Collection, purchased by Regione Lombardia and now seated at Comune di Ostiglia thanks to a mutual agreement. The Collection is partly made of apothecary moulds ...
Read morePigozzi Palace
The palace was built in the second half of the XVIII century on the properties of Teodoro Vanini, the liege lord of the Mensa del Vicariato of Mantua. The architectural structure was finished on 11 M...
Read morePinacoteca Comunale
The core of the collection centres on paintings, drawings, sculptures and graphics by local artists, dating from the late 19C to the second half of the 20C and with works by Baldissara, Cavicchini, C...
Read morePo river II World War museum
This is a memorial centre about II World War events along the Po, the great river.
It retains movies, pictures, documents and relics from 1944 (first air raids) to April 1945 (crossing of the battlef...
Read morePo river Museum
This old fortress was converted to an elegant ducal residence by the Marchese of Mantua, Ludovico II Gonzaga, who commissioned the Tuscan architect Luca Fancelli to execute it.
The demo-ethno-anthropo...
Read morePolirone Basilica, San Benedetto Po
Today's basilica is still attesting of Giulio Romano's genius and summing up the most important moments in Polirone's history. From 1540 to 1545, Giulio built again the basilica without destroying...
Read morePolirone town museum
Founded in 1977, this is one of the largest ethnographic museums in Italy. With over 13,000 objects, it has a policy of preserving the material and immaterial record of the Po Plain.
The exhibition l...
Read morePomponesco – Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish cemetery was constructed at the beginning of the 16th century, and later relocated at the beginning of the 20th century. It is situated in the outskirts of the town, and can be reached thro...
Read moreQuingentole town hall
Formerly the bishop's villa, this building now houses the town hall, a civic theatre and the schools. It originated from a pre-existing building that bishop Ludovico Gonzaga (1483-1511), son of Ludo...
Read moreRevere bell-tower
Revere’s old tower is an architectural testimony to a fortified complex linked to the system of towers, castles and corti in the Bassa Padana area. It belonged to an old fortified system, now l...
Read moreSabbioncello pumping station
The Sabbioncello pumping station was completed in 1957 and straddles the main Quingentole riverbank. It draws water from the River Po to irrigate 60,000 hectares of land in the provinces of Modena, M...
Read moreSabbioneta – Ducal Square (Piazza Ducale)
Since the 16th century, The Ducal Square (or Great Square) was the center of the public life ofthe Lord and citizens, and the place where the city market was located; consequently, it was also the cor...
Read moreSabbioneta – Gate of Victory (Porta Vittoria)
One of the two gates of the city, the Gate of Victoria is headed towards Milan, once headquarter of the Spanish Government. It was built in 1562, during the first construction phase of the medieval wa...
Read moreSabbioneta – Holy Mary of Grace Sanctuary, Vigoreto
In 1543 in Vigoreto, a little town a kilometer far from the medieval walls of Sabbioneta, there was a miraculous apparition of the Holy Virgin through a painting: the image –presumably frescoed ...
Read moreSabbioneta – Imperial Gate (Porta Imperiale)
The Imperial Door was built in 1579, at the end of the second stage of reconstruction of the medieval walls. It was dedicated to Emperor Rodolfo II of Asburgo, as one can read in the epigraph placed a...
Read moreSabbioneta – Square of Arms (Piazza d’Armi)
The current Square of Arm –formerly known as “Castle Square” for the imposing presence of the Fortress until 1786 – was the center of the Lord’s private life and the plac...
Read moreSabbioneta, il museo diffuso
Sabbioneta was created for Duke Vespasiano Gonzaga in the second half of the 16C and is an extraordinary example of a constructed ideal town, 'a dream turned into stone'.
A model of Renaissance urb...
Read moreSan Lorenzo archaeological area
Recorded since 1059, San Lorenzo di Quingentole formed part of the parish of Coriano in a feudal area controlled, on behalf of the bishop of Reggio, by Marchese Bonifacio, Matilda’s father.
It ...
Read moreSan Lorenzo chapel and parish church
San Lorenzo appears in documents since 1059; the bishop of Reggio Emila assigned it to marquis Boniface, the father of Matilda of Tuscany. It stood on the road to Pieve di Coriano, where recent excav...
Read moreSan Matteo delle Chiaviche pumping station
Near where the Oglio flows into the Po we find the village of San Matteo delle Chiaviche, where we can still see the impressive dam built by Pietro Portaluppinel 1939 to prevent constant flooding. Ne...
Read moreSan Siro pumping station
The San Siro pumping station was completed in 1926 as part of Parmigiana-Moglia reclamation project to drain the low-lying waters (less than 25 metres above sea level) of the provinces of Reggio Emil...
Read moreSanctuary of the Comuna
This is one of the three most important churches in the diocese but is mainly attended by worshippers from the nearby provinces of Verona and Rovigo. It was completed in the late 14C when, according ...
Read moreSermide Environmental Education Centre in the former cableway
The cableway was built by Sermide to transport materials brought by water on the River Po. Long in disuse, in the 1960s the base station became home to the Sermide rowing club but later abandoned for...
Read moreSiphon tunnel under the Secchia river
A siphon tunnel is a hydraulic mechanism that enables two waterways to cross. The tunnel under the River Secchia carries the main canal of the Agro Mantovano-Reggiano under the Apennine river through...
Read moreSt. Stefano and Anna Basilica
The basilica is of age-old origin, having been founded in 620 by Adoaldo and his mother Queen Theodolinda.
In 1596, the old church was damaged when the River Po flooded and was rebuilt farther away f...
Read moreSynagogue, Pomponesco
River traffic and corn trade encouraged Jewish settlements in Pomponesco during XVIII and XIX centuries; some mansions and the remains of the synagogue building and of a cemetery – where Canton...
Read moreSynagogue, Sabbioneta
Sabbioneta Jewish community knew an economical and cultural splendour and a great printing flowering with duke Vespasiano Gonzaga, in XVI century. Still, in XVIII and XIX centuries they developed the ...
Read moreSynagogue, Sermide
In 1598 the Holy See allowed Sermide Jewish community to turn an existing place into a synagogue. In 1635 Mantua community gave them a beautiful Holy Ark, which looked like a classical basilica fa&cc...
Read moreSynagogue, Viadana
The unfinished synagogue - which was designed by Carlo Visioli in early XIX century - is in the former ghetto; it was used as a carpentry for many years. While the interior has a dome and a loggia fo...
Read moreTeatro all’Antica, Sabbioneta
This wonderful gem was the first resident theatre in Europe. After building Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, architect Vincenzo Scamozzi designed this one on the orders of duke Vespasiano, in 1588; it was...
Read moreThe Polirone monastic complex
Founded in 1007 by Tedaldo of Canossa, grandfather of the celebrated Countess Matilda, on the island between the rivers Po and Lirone, the monastery played a key role in the history of monasticism vi...
Read moreThe Statue of Minerva in Sabbioneta
Minerva, a Roman assimilation of the Greek Athena, is the goddess of all the arts that require skill. knowledge and memory but it is also Athena Polias, goddess of the city.
The monument stands in th...
Read moreTorre d` Oglio pontoon bridge
Between 1750 and 1926, people paid a toll to be taken across the River Oglio on rafts and ferries. In 1926, the towns of Viadana, Marcaria and Dosolo formed a consortium to build and operate a pontoo...
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Ostiglia archeological Museum preserves findings dated back to Bronze and Iron Age and Roman Era. They were discovered in Ostiglia and belonged to Gemma and Don Greggiati Collections. Moreov...
Read moreTruffle Museum - Tru.Mu.
The TRU.MU (Truffle Museum) is in Bonizzo, Borgofranco Po, a small village in Basso Mantovano (south of Po river), in the heart of Mantuan truffle valley. It was inaugurated in October 2007 and it ho...
Read moreVilla Aurelia (formerly Villa Pasetti)
Built in the XVII century and restored in 1945 by the Pasettifamily, it is a fine example of a Baroque aristocratic home with park. Once one of the assets of the Bishop as a place where the bishops o...
Read moreVilla Bianchi
Already documented in 1538 as the court of Cesole, in 1575 it belonged to Ferdinando Gonzaga, lord ofGuastalla, who, in 1594, gave it to Ercole Gonzaga. After being transferred to Duke Vincenzo, Lord...
Read moreVilla Bisighini – Town Hall
This villa was formerly the residence of a local nobleman, Cavaliere Francesco Bisighini, who settled back here after making his fortune in Latin America. When he died, in 1953, he left the villa to ...
Read moreVilla Ghirardina
A splendid example of a country mansion, attributed to Luca Fancelli because of its rectangular plan and internal courtyard, the closed merlon motif on the facade and the heraldic decor.
Read moreVilla La Grangia
Just a short way from Sabbioneta, in Villa Pasquali, we find the farm house called the “Grange”. The origins of the building are not known. The first documents mentioning it date back to ...
Read moreVilla Luzzara
The majestic villa of the Marquises Luzzara built in Baroque style, it was started in the second half of the Seventeenth century but only completed in the following century. The layout is characteris...
Read moreVirgiliano museum
This museum of modern art and archaeology currently houses two valuable collections donated to the municipality by the citizens of Virgilio: Ugo Celada’s modern art collection and Vincenzo Prati...
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