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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 moreTown archeological museum
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 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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