| Calvisano | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Lombardy | |
| Territory | Lower Brescia | |
| Altitude | 67 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 44.83 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 8.543 (1/2018) | |
| Prefix tel | 39 030 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 25012 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | blessed Cristina Semenzi, New Year's Eve | |
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Calvisano is a city of Lombardy.
To know
Geographical notes
The river Chiese crosses the south-eastern part of it, for a stretch acting as a border with the territory of Carpenedolo.
How to orient yourself
Calvisano: full screen map.How to get
By plane
- 1 Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport (the Caravaggio), Via Aeroporto 13, Orio al Serio, ☎ 39 035 326323.
- 2 Verona-Villafranca Airport (Valerio Catullo), Boxes of Sommacampagna (VR), ☎ 39 045 8095666, fax: 39 045 8619074.
By car
- A4 motorway: exit Brescia east, direction Castenedolo
- A21 motorway: Brescia sud exit
On the train
- Lonato del Garda station, on the Turin-Trieste line
- Desenzano del Garda station, on the Turin-Trieste line
By bus
How to get around
What see
Cloister of the church of Santa Maria Della Rosa
- 1 Church of San Silvestro.
- 2 Dominican Monastery.
- 3 Church of Santa Maria della Rosa.
- Church of Santa Maria delle Brede.
- 4 Lechi Palace, Via Lechi.
- 5 Schilini Palace (city Hall).
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 Al Capriccio, Via Golgi 32, ☎ 39 030 9686373.
- 2 Osteria with La Banca kitchen, Via S. Francesco 19, ☎ 39 030 968432.
- 3 Al Gambero Restaurant, Via Roma.
Where stay
Safety
How to keep in touch
Around
- Lake Garda - It is one of the great Lombard lakes; the eastern shore is Venetian, the tip to the north it is thirty. A destination for climatic tourism since the nineteenth century, every coastal town lives and develops with tourism. Main destinations are Sirmione, Desenzano del Garda, Salò, Riva del Garda, Garda, Peschiera del Garda.
- Alto Mantovano - Borderland of the Duchy of Mantua, which pursued the dream of obtaining an outlet on Lake Garda without ever realizing it, developed the courts of cadet branches of the Gonzaga family. Castel Goffredo, Castiglione delle Stiviere, Carpenedolo retain the urban layout and monuments of that era. The post-war period saw good employment development, with a consequent increase in well-being and population.
Itineraries
Morainic hills of Lake Garda
- Wine Route of the Longobard Hills, a path of food and wine tourism promotion, about 90 kilometers long and recognized by the Lombardy Region, which winds through the province of Brescia on a territory of 9 municipalities, including: Capriano del Colle, Poncarale, Flero, Montirone, Montichiari, Castenedolo, Rezzato, Botticino is Brescia.
- Morainic hills of Lake Garda - On the first corrugations of the Po plain that becomes a hill, where the great lake basin of the Lake Garda, the route touches towns and cities that were the domain of Gonzaga, Venice, Scaligero, and then became the scene of the bloody battles of the Risorgimento that were the prelude to the unification of Italy. To the tourist, historical and naturalistic importance the area combines an oenological interest as an area of production of wines from the hills, tokai, merlot and claret.
- In the lands of the Gonzagas - An itinerary through the centers, large and small, which were the capitals of the Gonzaga cadet branches: principalities, marquisates, duchies which, within the Mantuan state structure, enjoyed real independence, often minted coins and held refined courts that rivaled that of Mantua, embellished their urban centers by equipping them with elegant architecture - churches, squares, palaces, walls, towers - and characteristic urban views such as the typical Gonzaga arcades.
- Places of the battle of Solferino and San Martino - The itinerary runs through the places where the historic one took place on 24 June 1859 battle of Solferino and San Martino.
- Via Carolingia - European itinerary that crosses the places traveled by the court of Charlemagne between the 8th and 9th centuries to travel from Aachen to Rome, where Pope Leo III crowned the Carolingian sovereign emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on Christmas night in the 19th century.
