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Cremonese

Location
State	Italy
Region	Lombardy
Capital	Cremona
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The Cremonese is a Lombard district in the area of Bassa del Po di Lombardia.

To know

Land of ancient agricultural tradition, it was an area of large estates concentrated in the hands of a few noble Cremonese families, who have left numerous testimonies of their wealth not only in the city but also in the villages of the surrounding countryside, scattering them with stately villas and monumental farmhouses-villages with majestic manor houses often also equipped with country churches.

Geographical notes

In the flattest Lombard plain, it extends between the Po to the south and the Oglio to the north, where it partially pushes on the left bank to embrace the territories of the municipalities of Ostiano is I want to.

Territories and tourist destinations

Urban centers

Cremona - Capital of the homonymous province.
Ostiano - It is a Gonzaga city, and represents the most advanced point of the dominions of the lords of Mantua in the Brescia area. From the end of the nineteenth century the municipality, which after the fall of the Gonzagas was administratively aggregated to Brescia, asked for and obtained to pass under the provincial administration of Cremona. On the left of the Oglio, it preserves part of the Castle which made it a border stronghold; in its urban layout, rich in good architectural examples in churches and palaces, you can breathe the atmosphere of the cities of Gonzaga inspiration.
Pizzighettone - Fortified city, it preserves the sixteenth-century walls that surround the two parts into which the Adda divides it; the district of Gera d'Adda, located on the right bank of the river, is the most picturesque part. In the part on the left, adjacent to the bridge over the Adda, a tower is still visible which is said to have been the prison of the French king Francis I defeated in the battle of Pavia (1525).
Soresina
Sigh - It was an important Lombard administrative center. It preserves an ancient Romanesque tower which was reused as a bell tower. Villa Cattaneo - Ala Ponzone, now used as a retirement home, is one of the finest examples of neoclassical villa in the whole area that runs along the Po.

Other destinations

South Oglio Park
Le Bine Nature Reserve - TO Calvatone.
Golena del Po Park - TO Casalmaggiore.

How to get

By plane

They are Lombard airports:

45.6661869.7018081 Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport (the Caravaggio), Via Aeroporto 13, Orio al Serio, ☎ 39 035 326323.
45.638.7230562 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).
45.42555610.3269443 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]. Charter only