Palazzo Te – Mantova
Welcome to Palazzo Te, one of the most extraordinary examples of a Mannerist Renaissance Villa, designed and constructed between 1525 and 1535 by Giulio Romano, known as “the abode of the gods: a mythological, political, erotic dream forbidden to common beings.” and commissioned by Federico II Gonzaga. The famous Villa, designed for feasts, receptions and […]
Piazza delle Erbe – Mantova
Piazza delle Erbe è una delle piazze più affascinanti della città ed è un vivace centro cittadino, circondato da una sequenza di edifici storici che riflettono l’evoluzione dell’architettura nel corso dei secoli. Le case con portici tardogotici e rinascimentali lungo via Broletto offrono uno spettacolo suggestivo, mentre il palazzo del Podestà chiude la piazza sul […]
Basilica di Sant’Andrea – Mantova
The Basilica of Sant’Andrea is the largest church in Mantova. Work of Leon Battista Alberti in the development of Renaissance architecture, it was completed many years after the architect’s death, with methods that did not always conform to the original plans. In the crypt there are two reliquaries with earth soaked in the blood of […]
Museo MACA – Mantova
The palace of San Sebastiano is the prince’s only permanent residence built outside the vast court complex of the Ducal Palace and stands out as a unique case in the Gonzaga tradition of power. Restored and converted into a museum in 2004, the complex has now been renovated and is home to the MACA – […]
Casa del Mantegna – Mantova
Andrea Mantegna’s house it has been defined as “one of the most intriguing and absolute buildings of the Renaissance”, “a very simple body, not Albertian, but of a Lauranesque clarity pushed to even more absolute conclusions”. There is nothing accidental in these two different ways of approaching the architectural complex that Andrea Mantegna wanted to […]
Museo Tazio Nuvolari – Mantova
The legend of the “Flying Mantuan” lives on in the Tazio Nuvolari Museum which collects the legacy of the great champion now preserved and promoted by Automobile Club Mantova. Through the collections of images, memorabilia, audiovisual contributions and trophies, the Museum tells the extraordinary life of the “greatest driver of the past, present and future”. […]
Torre dell’orologio e museo del tempo – Mantova
The Clock Tower is a Renaissance building located in Piazza delle Erbe in Mantua; it rises between the Palazzo della Ragione and the Rotonda di San Lorenzo, and houses the Museum of Time and its Measurement. Discover the clock tower
Teatro scientifico Bibiena – Mantova
The project was made by Antonio Galli Bibiena from Parma, commissioned by Count Carlo Ottavio di Colloredo, rector of the Accademia dei Timidi, and was built between 1767 and 1769. Completed on 3 December 1769, it was officially inaugurated: just over a month later, the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was only fourteen at the […]
Castellaro Lagusello
We are in Castellaro Lagusello (MN) a fortified village that is reflected in its heart-shaped pond surrounded by the landscape of moraine hills and ploughed fields. A village forgotten by time: with ancient Guelph walls, river stone paving, original stone walls of parsonage and houses like the one wrapped in vines in front of Villa […]
Borghetto sul Mincio
Borghetto is undoubtedly Valeggio sul Mincio’s best-known hamlet for its history, landscape and its monuments – which make this place so interesting that it has recently been included in the Club of the “Most Beautiful Villages in Italy”. Discover Borghetto sul Mincio
