Complesso Museale Palazzo Ducale is a highlight of the UNESCO site “Mantova e Sabbioneta” as an extraordinary testimony of Mantua’s history, Italian Renaissance and European art between the Middle Ages and the Baroque. Due to its articulated configuration, it was defined as a “city-palace”. This vast architectural complex occupies an area of about 35,000 square meters with more than 1.000 rooms, initially designed as a series of disaggregated buildings, which found an organic form during the Sixteenth Century. Its construction started with the late Thirteenth Century nucleus built by the Bonacolsi family and continued up to the Habsburg projects during the Eighteenth Century.
