| Cavriana | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Lombardy | |
| Territory | Alto Mantovano | |
| Altitude | 170 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 36.91 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 3.904 (2014) | |
| Name inhabitants | cavrianesi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0376 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 46040 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
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Cavriana is a city of Lombardy, located inAlto Mantovano.
To know
It is located on the morainic hills of the amphitheater of Garda.
Passed down in history for the famous "Peace of Cavriana" of 1441 which sanctioned a truce between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan, it was a holiday and leisure place for the Gonzagas, lords of MantuaIn 1797 it was the seat of the Austrian headquarters and in 1859, after the battle of Solferino, Napoleon III lived there.
How to orient yourself
Cavriana: full screen map.Neighborhoods
The municipal territory also includes the villages of San Cassiano, San Giacomo, Castelgrimaldo, Campagnolo and Bande.
How to get
How to get around
What see
Santa Maria della Pieve
1 Sanctuary of the Madonna della Pieve (Santa Maria della Pieve). Simply called Pieve di Cavriana, the church stands isolated on a hill and is one of the most important and best preserved Romanesque churches in Mantua.
- The parish church, entirely in terracotta, was built in the 11th century and the interior with a single nave is covered by a wooden structure with trusses. The 14th century high relief of Santa Maria Nova is located in the presbytery.
- In the fifties it underwent a significant conservative restoration, to repair the damage caused by the Second World War.
- In the surrounding garden there are some steles dedicated to the battles of the Risorgimento.
The castle
- 2 Castle. Military structure probably founded in the 11th century, it was one of the most important fortifications in the Mantua area, with four corner towers and stood on the hill overlooking the town. The castle underwent several raids in the fourteenth century by the Visconti of Milan. The structure was enlarged by Francesco I Gonzaga who stayed there for a long time also to escape the plague and died here in 1407. The Marquis Ludovico Gonzaga commissioned the architect Giovanni da Padova to consolidate the defensive structure and made it an important residence. Among the architects who embellished the residence were Andrea Mantegna and Luca Fancelli who, given the mild climate, bought some land in the area. Isabella d'Este also stayed in the castle for a long time, during the absences from Mantua of her husband, the Marquis Francesco II Gonzaga. Two other members of the Gonzaga family occupied the castle and found death there: Eleonora de 'Medici, wife of Vincenzo I Gonzaga, on 9 September 1611 and Carlo Gonzaga, second son of the VIII Duke of Mantua Carlo I, who died here on 14 August 1631 .
- At the beginning of the seventeenth century the structure was partially demolished. Around 1770, under the Austrian domination, the castle was almost completely demolished and the material was used for the construction of Villa Mirra.
- Today the castle, partially restored and consolidated in 2004, remains part of the walls and the tower transformed into a bell tower.
Villa Mirra
- 3 Villa Mirra, Castle Square 5, ☎ 39 0376 806330, fax: 39 030 392652, @[email protected]. Of sixteenth-century origins, it was rebuilt in 1770 under the Austrian domination, using the materials due to the demolition of the walls and the castle. The villa belonged to the Gonzaga family of Mantua and Carlo Gonzaga assigned it as a dowry to his daughter in 1479 when he married Count Odorico d 'Arch.
- The Austrians under the command of Marshal Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser set up their headquarters there during the battle of Castiglione of 5 August 1796 against Napoleon Bonaparte. From the beginning and up to the mid-nineteenth century the building passed into the property of some noble Mantuan families. After the victory in the battle of Solferino and San Martino on June 24, 1859, Napoleon III and King Vittorio Emanuele II found themselves victorious in the villa. The villa was sold to the family of Mirra Pastore (hence the name) in 1883.
- An important event took place in the villa on 24 June 1959, the first centenary of the battle of Solferino and San Martino, when it hosted the President of the French Republic General Charles De Gaulle and the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Gronchi for the official breakfast in the hall on the floor. noble.
- The building surrounded by a park became the property of the Municipality of Cavriana in 1976 and hosts cultural events, conferences and exhibitions. The Upper Mantuan Archaeological Museum is housed in a wing of the building.
- 4 Oratory of Sant'Anna, Campagnolo locality. From the 17th century. In a pleasant position on a hill.
- Archaeological Museum of Alto Mantovano, piazza Castello 5 (in Villa Mirra), ☎ 39 0376 806330, @[email protected].
€ 3 full; reduced € 2. 
Tue-Fri 9: 00-12: OO; Sat-Sun and holidays 9: 00-12: 00 15: 00-18: 00.
€ 3 full; reduced € 2. 
Tue-Fri 9: 00-12: OO; Sat-Sun and holidays 9: 00-12: 00 15: 00-18: 00.Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
The typical cake of San Biagio
Average prices
- 1 [link not working]La Capra Restaurant, Via Pieve 2, ☎ 39 0376 82101. Near the Pieve
- 2 Pizzeria Fantasy Da Luciana, Via Guidizzolo, 9, ☎ 39 0376 806377.
- 3 La Piazzetta restaurant, Via H. Dunant, 4b, ☎ 39 0376 1620055.
- 4 Benatti Pizzeria, Via Porta Antica, 29, ☎ 39 0376 804044.
- 5 Trattoria La Rocca, Via Porta Antica, 95.
Where stay
Average prices
- 1 Hotel Alla Corte dei Bicchi, Via Guidizzolo 10, ☎ 39 0376 815024, @[email protected].
Safety
Pharmacy
- 1 [link not working]Bonetti, Via Porta Antica, 67, ☎ 39 0376 82091.
How to keep in touch
- 2 Italian post, Via Porta Antica, 30, ☎ 39 0376 806244.
Around
- 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.
- Castellaro Lagusello - Ancient fortified village from the 12th century, it stands on a hill overlooking a heart-shaped lake. It was long disputed by the lords of the time: Bonacolsi, Scaligeri, Visconti, Gonzaga and the Republic of Venice. Since 2011 the resort Tacoli Fund of its territory has become part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites within the supranational site named Ancient settlements in the Alps.
- 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.
- Sirmione - The Grottoes of Catullus - remains of an immense Roman villa in a panoramic position on the tip of its promontory -, the majestic and elegant Scaliger Castle which fortifies the town's marina and the thermal baths make it one of the most popular destinations around the lake.
Itineraries
Morainic hills of Lake Garda
- Cavriana is part of the Route of Mantuan Wines and Flavors, a path of food and wine tourism promotion, about 300 kilometers long and recognized by the Lombardy Region, which winds through the province of Mantua on a territory of 41 municipalities, including: Castiglione delle Stiviere, Buttonhole, Curtatone, Sabbioneta, Viadana, Mantua, Bagnolo San Vito, San Benedetto Po, Quistello, Gonzaga, San Giacomo delle Segnate, Poggio Rusco, Ostiglia, Goito, Volta Mantovana, Monzambano is Bridges over the Mincio. The route is intertwined with other tourist itineraries in the area: Route of Rice and Risotto Mantovani is Mantuan Truffle Road.
- 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.
- Rural churches and oratories of Castel Goffredo - The itinerary, entirely in the green countryside rich in waterways, runs through the numerous places of worship, which boast ancient traditions and are the sign of a widespread religiosity, since the sixteenth century.
- Way of faith and solidarity - The itinerary runs through the places where two saints lived, St. Luigi Gonzaga is Saint Angela Merici, and a blessed one, Paola Montaldi; where important pages of the Risorgimento and saw the birth of the Red Cross.
- 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.
- Towers and castles of the Alto Mantovano
