Thank you (Curtatone) - Grazie (Curtatone)

Thank you is a center of the Mantuan in Lombardy.

To know

It is an important place of devotion for its sanctuary, in whose churchyard theNational meeting of the Madonnari. It is part of the most beautiful villages in Italy.

Geographical notes

Thanks is located in the Mincio Park. It is 2 km from the town of Curtatone and 9 km from the city of Mantua.

How to orient yourself

How to get

By plane

• Catullo Airport of Verona-Villafranca
• Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport
• Bologna airport

By car

• From Mantua city: take the SS 420 for Cremona
• From the Mantova Nord tollbooth: exit from the A22 motorway, continue on the SS 420 towards Cremona

On the train

Mantua railway station.

By bus

Service performed by APAM.

How to get around

What see

• 45.1575110.694711 Sanctuary of the Beata Vergine delle Grazie, Sanctuary Square 4, ☎ 39 0376 349002, fax: 39 0376 347112, @[email protected]. October-March 7: 30-12: 00 and 15: 00-18: 30; April-September: 7: 30-12: 00 and 15: 00-19: 30. Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, at the end of the 15th century had the basilica built to thank the Virgin for the end of the plague. Subsequently the convent and oratory were built and, around 1500, the front portico which housed the market was built. Inside, with a single nave, there are various chapels that house the remains of illustrious characters.  

Events and parties

• 45.1571510.694591 Ancient Fair of Grace. It takes place annually from 12 to 16 August. It was officially established on 11 August 1425 by the Captain of the People Gianfrancesco Gonzaga (first Marquis since 1433). 
• 45.1571510.694592 National meeting of the Madonnari, Churchyard of the sanctuary. It takes place annually on August 15th.  

What to do

• 45.1578310.695981 River excursions in the Mincio Park (Porticciolo di Grazie, c / o the park at the back of the Sanctuary), ☎ 39 0376 349292, @[email protected]. Rates. From March to November. 

Shopping

How to have fun

Where to eat

To taste, during the Fair, the famous "Cotechino delle Grazie", De.Co.

Average prices

• 45.15564410.6939941 Locanda delle Grazie, Via Pio X 2, ☎ 39 0376 348038. 
• 45.15590910.6939222 Trattoria al Cacciatore, Via Pio X 21, ☎ 39 0376 348028. 
• 45.15547110.6936093 Trattoria Da Claudio, Via della Francesca, 45, ☎ 39 0376 349010. 
• 45.15527910.6942534 ^{[link not working]}Quattro Stagioni restaurant and pizzeria, Via Francesca, 26, ☎ 39 0376 348306. 

Where stay

• B&B Anima Mundi, Via VIII Marzo, 36, ☎ 39 0376 348331. 

Safety

How to keep in touch

Around

• Mincio Park
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 an acknowledgment 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.
• Cremona - It has a monumental historic center - the Cathedral, the Baptistery, the Town Hall - one of the most distinguished in Lombardy. It was a Roman city. It was powerful at the time of the Communes and rivaled Milan, which finally subdued it. His violins (Stradivari and Amati), his Torrazzo and even more his torrone, are known everywhere.

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.
• Rice road - The itinerary - to be carried out in particular from May to September - runs through the Mantua area dedicated to the cultivation of rice, between rivers and canals.
• 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: Buttonhole, Curtatone, Sabbioneta, Viadana, Mantua, Bagnolo San Vito, San Benedetto Po, Quistello, Gonzaga, San Giacomo delle Segnate, Poggio Rusco, Ostiglia, Goito, 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.

Other projects

• Wikipedia contains an entry concerning Thank you (Curtatone)

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