Casaloldo | ||
State | Italy | |
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Region | Lombardy | |
Territory | Alto Mantovano | |
Altitude | 45 m a.s.l. | |
Surface | 16.85 km² | |
Inhabitants | 2.679 (Istat 2014) | |
Name inhabitants | Casaloldesi | |
POSTAL CODE | 46040 | |
Time zone | UTC 1 | |
Patron | Saints Gordian and Epimachus | |
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Casaloldo is a city of Lombardy, located inAlto Mantovano.
To know
When to go
Climate | gen | Feb | mar | apr | mag | down | Jul | needle | set | Oct | nov | dec |
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Maximum (° C) | 4 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 22 | 26 | 29 | 28 | 24 | 18 | 10 | 5 |
Minimum (° C) | -3 | -1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 3 | -2 |
Precipitation (mm) | 60 | 54 | 64 | 69 | 92 | 75 | 73 | 85 | 62 | 84 | 74 | 54 |
Source: Eurometeo |
Preferably spring and in September-October. Continental climate with sultry summer, foggy late autumn and harsh winter.
How to orient yourself
How to get
By plane
The nearest airports are:
- 1 Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport (the Caravaggio), Via Aeroporto 13, Orio al Serio, ☎ 39 035 326323.
- 2 Brescia-Montichiari Airport (Gabriele D'Annunzio), Via Aeroporto, 34, Montichiari (BS), ☎ 39 030 9656599, fax: 39 030 9656514. Charter only
- 3 Verona-Villafranca Airport (Valerio Catullo), Boxes of Sommacampagna (VR), ☎ 39 045 8095666, fax: 39 045 8619074.
By car
- colleague: Buttonhole, Piubega is Gazoldo degli Ippoliti
- "Strada della calza": connects Casaloldo, Medole is Pozzolengo
The closest motorway exits are:
- Brenner motorway: exit Mantua north, then direction Brescia, Guide it, Medole
- Serenissima motorway: exit Desenzano del Garda, then direction Castiglione delle Stiviere is Medole
- Highway: exit Cremona, then direction Mantua, Buttonhole
On the train
- 4 Asola railway station, Via Carducci. On the director Parma-Brescia.
By bus
- APAM. Mantova-Asola line.
How to get around
What see
- 1 Casalodi Castle. Founded in the 11th century.
- 2 Church of the B.V. Assunta. From the 18th century.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
- In the numerous hosiery factories equipped with a factory shop, it is possible to buy women's socks and tights, men's socks, women's underwear and swimwear at factory prices.
- 1 Weekly market. Tuesday morning.
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 [link not working]Al Ciliegio Restaurant, Via Mantova 2, ☎ 39 0376 1791677.
- Ost restaurant, Via Giustizia 18, ☎ 39 0376 730135.
Where stay
Average prices
- 1 [link not working]Hotel Al Ciliegio, Via Mantova 2, ☎ 39 0376 1791677.
- [link not working]Corte Vignola farmhouse, Via Mantova 9, ☎ 39 0376 748148.
Safety
- 5 Carabinieri station, Via Monte Grappa 29 - Castel Goffredo, ☎ 39 0376 770315.
- 6 Asola Carlo Poma Hospital, Piazza 80 ° Infantry 1, Asola, ☎ 39 0376 7211.
How to keep in touch
Keep informed
- 7 The Gazzettino Nuovo, Via Marconi 2 - Castiglione delle Stiviere, ☎ 39 0376 631709, @[email protected]. Information weekly for the provinces of Mantua and Brescia - Casaloldo Chronicle.
Around
- 3 Oratory of San Vito, Via San Vito - Casaloldo. Religious building dating back to the 16th century, located in a suggestive area.
- 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.
- Solferino - The famous battle of the Risorgimento of 24 June 1859, which saw the Austrians defeated, handed down the name of the town to history, like the nearby center of Saint martin. The Risorgimento Museum recalls the epic of those years, together with the Ossuary which houses the bones of 7,000 fallen from that carnage. The town also preserves a fortress and a Gonzaga castle.
- San Martino della Battaglia - Contemporary to that of Solferino, the Risorgimento battle linked in the town's toponym saw the defeat of the Austrians during the second war of Independence. On the hill of the confrontation there is a commemorative tower; an ossuary holds thousands of remains of fallen soldiers from the opposing armies.
- Castiglione delle Stiviere - City of the Red Cross and of San Luigi Gonzaga, protagonist in the wars of the Risorgimento, it was a Gonzaga center; it retains a beautiful historic core that extends over the morainic hills south of Lake Garda. After the war it experienced a strong economic expansion that favored an important demographic growth, making it the reference center of theAlto Mantovano.
- Castel Goffredo - The industrialized "city of the sock" of modern times has a past as a Gonzaga capital which has endowed it with an important historical center; the squares, the arcades, the churches, the palaces permeate it with the unmistakable atmosphere that characterizes the urban planning of the Gonzagas.
Itineraries
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.