| Goito | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Lombardy | |
| Territory | Alto Mantovano | |
| Altitude | 33 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 79.22 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 10.463 (Istat 2014) | |
| Name inhabitants | goitesi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0376 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 46044 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | Saint Peter | |
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Goito is a city of Lombardy, located inAlto Mantovano.
It was the birthplace of the famous poet and troubadour Sordello da Goito (circa 1200-1269).
To know
Background
Located on the river Mincio, Goito was a Roman possession. From 1358 his lands became the property of the Gonzagas. The Marquis Ludovico III Gonzaga had the stone bridge built over the Mincio and in 1455 he had the Naviglio built, which connected Mantua to his summer residence in Goito, where he died in 1478. Guglielmo Gonzaga also had a sumptuous palace built here, in which he found death in 1587.
On May 30, 1848, the "battle of Goito" took place during the first war of independence. The Austrian army of Field Marshal Josef Radetzky clashed with the Piedmontese army commanded by Vittorio Emanuele II, who was wounded but victorious in the field.
The Battle of the Goito Bridge in an 1860 lithograph
How to orient yourself
Goito: full screen map.How to get
Ruins of the castle
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
Highways
The closest motorway exits are:
Brenner motorway: exit Mantua north, then direction Brescia, Marmirolo
Serenissima motorway: exit Desenzano del Garda, then direction Castiglione delle Stiviere
Brenner motorway: exit 
Serenissima motorway: exit Parking areas for campers
Nearest equipped rest area:
- 4 Borghetto rest areas, Provincial road 55 Viscontea - Borghetto di Valeggio sul Mincio, ☎ 39 045 7950486. The equipped area is available all year round, equipped with water, drainage well and lighting. Children playground.
On the train
The nearest stations are:
- 5 Mantua railway station, Don Leoni square. On the directives Verona-Modena.
- 6 Desenzano del Garda railway station, Einaudi square. Served by Frecciabianca for Milano Centrale, Torino Porta Susa, Trieste Centrale and Venezia Santa Lucia; from Frecciarossa to Brescia and Roma Termini and from regional to Milano Centrale and Verona Porta Nuova.
How to get around
What see
- 1 Giraffe Villa. Built on the banks of the Mincio probably in the 15th century by the Gonzagas.
- 2 Villa Moschini. Built in 1460 by the Marquis Ludovico III Gonzaga.
- 3 Bridge of Glory. Here the bloody "Battle of Goito" of 1848 was fought.
- 4 Monument to the Bersagliere. Opened on September 20, 1926.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- Locanda Al Ponte, SS. Goitese 258.
- Locanda la Cantinetta, Via XXV Aprile 58.
- Trattoria Pizzeria Cuddles of Food, SS Goitese 118-120.
Where stay
Average prices
- La Casa di Enea B&B, Via XXIV Maggio 16 (On the banks of the Mincio), ☎ 39 340 7137300.
Safety
How to keep in touch
Around
Bertone Park
- Mantua - Capital of the Gonzagas, it still exudes its subtle charm of a great city of art for which it appoints it a UNESCO World Heritage Site it was not so much a recognition as a necessary acknowledgment. Its ancient atmospheres are incomparable, the profiles of the palaces and domes that stand out in the Po Valley mist enveloped by the mirror of its lakes, its endless Gonzaga palace that incorporates numerous buildings in the city center.
- Massimbona
- Bertone Park
- Massimbona
- 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.
Itineraries
Morainic hills of Lake Garda
- Goito 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 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, Volta Mantovana, Monzambano, Bridges over the Mincio is Cavriana. 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.
- 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
