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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Lombardy | |
| Territory | Cremasco | |
| Altitude | 79 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 34.52 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 34.371 (2016) | |
| Name inhabitants | Cremaschi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0373 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 26013 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | San Pantaleone (10 June) | |
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Cream is a city of Lombard Po Valley in Lombardy.
To know
Geographical notes
On the river Serio, it is a city in the middle plain, equidistant from Milan, Pavia, Cremona, Bergamo; has many contacts with the neighbor Praise.
Background
There are those who attribute to the city an older origin, but tradition places it at the time of the barbarian invasions, when the inhabitants took refuge in the high ground of theisland of the Meuse to be able to face the invaders from a safer position; 15 August 570 is indicated as the day of its foundation. Possession of the counts of Camisano, it was then of Bonifacio marquis of Tuscany, father of the famous Matilde di Canossa who gave Crema to the bishop of Cremona. Far more documented is its lively history as a free municipality, a time in which the strong and never extinct antagonism between the city and Cremona.Allied with Milan versus Cremona that sided with the empire, Crema was besieged and destroyed. After the reconstruction, again fortified, it had the Cathedral, Palazzo Pretorio and autonomy which ended in 1335 with the surrender to the Visconti. A brief interlude of local lordship of the Benzoni family (1403-1423) to then flow again into the Visconti domain and finally, in 1449, into the Republic of Venice.
With the Serenissima the city experienced a particularly favorable period. Province of the Mainland, it had a good economic development as well as an important building and monumental development: a new city wall, the Palazzo Comunale (1525-1533), the Palazzo della Notaria which later became Palazzo Vescovile after the establishment of the Episcopal Curia in 1580, the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Croce.
When the Serenissima fell in 1797, Crema became the provincial capital in a condominium with Praise; later it was administratively subjected to Cremona forever losing its administrative automation, which the city has never ceased, with more or less vigor, according to the periods, to claim. Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a notable industrial development began which led to a substantial demographic increase and to further consolidate its natural role as a reference center of the Cremasco area.
How to orient yourself
Crema (Italy): full screen map.Neighborhoods
Other inhabited centers of its municipal territory are Santa Maria dei Mosi, Santo Stefano in Vairano and Vergonzana.
How to get
By plane
- 1 Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport (the Caravaggio), Via Aeroporto 13, Orio al Serio, ☎ 39 035 326323.
- 2 Milan-Malpensa Airport (MXP), Ferno. The airport has two terminals (T1 and T2), the second is used for low cost flights. The bus service Motorway connects the airport with Milan central station in about 50 minutes, while the Malpensa Express it connects Terminal 1 with Cadorna station (red and green line underground) in 40 minutes. The buses of the Sadem is Motorway reach the city of Turin (2 hours), while the company Foxes make a few trips for Genoa (3 hours).
- 3 Verona Airport (Catullus), Boxes of Sommacampagna, ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected].
- 4 Brescia Airport (D'Annunzio), Via Aeroporto 34, Montichiari (Connections with Brescia airport are guaranteed by public transport via the bus. The stop a Brescia city is located at the bus station (number 23), while that of the airport is at the front of the terminal. There are also connections to the city of Verona via bus / shuttle line 1), ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected].
How to get around
What see
- 1 Cathedral.
- 2 Saint Mary of the Cross.
- city Hall.
- Vimercati Palace - Sanseverino.
- Holy Trinity.
- civic Museum, via Dante 49, ☎ 39 0373 257161. It stands as a means of enhancing the ancient people who populated the territory of the city and the surrounding area, as its full name wants to highlight: Civic Museum of Crema and Cremasco. In fact, in the archaeological section, it collects artifacts from the territory ranging from the Late Bronze Age and from the prehistoric areas of Vidolasco, to the Soncino (III century BC) and those of Spino d'Adda (II-I century BC), to the mosaics of Pignano Palace (4th - 5th century AD) to the Lombard grave goods and tombs found in Offanengo.
- 3 Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Via delle Grazie.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
There gold braid is a Cremasco pastry product. It was invented between 1937 and 1938, at the Fiera di Padua, by the pastry chef Zironda, who later opened the "Pasticceria Zironda" where Vittorio Maccalli began to work as an apprentice. When the owner retired from the business, Maccalli took over and continued the production of this dessert and called his shop in Crema "Treccia d'Oro". The region Lombardy recognized the title of handcrafted product of Crema and del Cremasco.
The cake has the shape of a braid; the dough contains flour, butter, sugar, brewer's yeast, candied orange and citron, sultanas, icing sugar and salt.
Moderate prices
- Burger King, Via Giorgio La Pira 12, ☎ 39 0373 430005.
Mon-Sun: 11: 00-21: 00. This Burger King is located in the Gran Rondò Shopping Center. The services are: Wifi, Parties, Home Delivery.
Mon-Sun: 11: 00-21: 00. This Burger King is located in the Gran Rondò Shopping Center. The services are: Wifi, Parties, Home Delivery.Average prices
- 1 Portanova Restaurant with pizza, Via Luciano Chiodo, 10-12, ☎ 39 0373 200315.
- 2 [link not working]Chili pepper restaurant, Via Stazione, 60/62, ☎ 39 393 6311659.
- 3 Pizza size, Via Luigi Griffini, 1, ☎ 39 0373 65576.
- 4 I Mo - Japanese restaurant, Via Griffini, 22, ☎ 39 0373 83182.
- 5 Future Fusion - Japanese restaurant, Via Tomaso Pombioli, 1, ☎ 39 0373 203496.
- 6 [link not working]998 Wok Sushi Restaurant, Via della Fiera, 9, ☎ 39 0373 81355.
- 7 Trattoria La Rosa Gialla, Via Vittorio Veneto, 26, ☎ 39 0373 81508.
Where stay
Average prices
- 1 Ombrianello Inn, Via Ombrianello, 21, ☎ 39 393 0022268.
- San Clemente, Via Crocefissa di Rosa, 3, ☎ 39 3452240390, @[email protected]. Check in: 14:00, check-out: 20:00.
- Relais Vimercati, Via Vimercati, 13, ☎ 39 3311679168, @[email protected]. Check in: 14:00, check-out: 20:00.
Safety
Pharmacies
- 5 Bertolini, Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi, 49, ☎ 39 0373 256279.
- 6 Bruttomesso, Piazza Marconi, 20, ☎ 39 0373 256286.
- 7 Central, Piazza Duomo, 12, ☎ 39 0373 256139.
- 8 Cremanuova Municipal, Via Cappellazzi, 1 / C, ☎ 39 0373 202860.
- 9 Municipal Ombriano - Sabbioni, Viale Europa, 73 (in the locality of Ombriano), ☎ 39 0373 30111.
- 10 Count Negri, Via Kennedy, 26 / B, ☎ 39 0373 256059.
- 11 Grenade, Via Giacomo Matteotti, 17, ☎ 39 0373 256233.
- 12 Virgin, Via Cremona, 3, ☎ 39 0373 84906.
- 13 XX September, Via XX Settembre, 60, ☎ 39 0373 256246.
How to keep in touch
Post office
- 14 Italian post, piazza Angelo Madeo 3, ☎ 39 0373 899912, fax: 39 0373 259386.
- 15 Italian post (Crema1 Agency), via Brescia 48/50, ☎ 39 0373 259160, fax: 39 0373 82292.
- 16 Italian post (Crema2 Agency), via G. Cabrini, 9, ☎ 39 0373 30157, fax: 39 0373 82292.
- 17 Italian post (Crema3 Agency), Via Giovanni Battaglio, ☎ 39 0373 80342, fax: 39 0373 82988.
Around
- Pandino - The wonderfully preserved castle, rich in frescoes for which it is an almost unique example in Lombardy, makes Pandino an important tourist destination in theCremasco and of the whole region.
- Soncino - Fortified village with walls and a fortress in excellent condition, it was for a long time an outpost of the Cremonese against the Brescians. It is part of the most beautiful villages in Italy.
- Pignano Palace - To see the early Romanesque church of San Martino built over the remains of an early Christian basilica of the fifth century AD. C.
- Castelleone - Populous center with a well-known sanctuary, its most famous monument is in the church of Santa Maria in Bressanoro. The medieval Torre Isso is what remains of the ancient fortifications.
Itineraries
- Crema is part of the Strada del Gusto Cremonese in the land of Stradivari, a route of food and wine tourism promotion, about 560 kilometers long and recognized by the Lombardy Region, which winds through the province of Cremona on a territory of 115 municipalities, including: Rivolta d'Adda, Spino d'Adda, Soncino, Cremona, Castelleone, Soresina, Casalbuttano, Robecco d'Oglio, Pescarolo and United, Dovarese Island, Piadena, Torricella del Pizzo, Rivarolo del Re is Casalmaggiore.
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