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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Lombardy | |
| Territory | Alto Mantovano | |
| Altitude | 61 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 22.38 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 5.966 (2018) | |
| Name inhabitants | Guidizzolesi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0376 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 46040 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | Madonna of the Rosary | |
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Guide it is a city of Lombardy.
To know
How to orient yourself
Guidizzolo: full screen map.How to get
By plane
The nearest airports are:
- 1 Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport (the Caravaggio), Via Aeroporto 13, Orio al Serio, ☎ 39 035 326323.
- 2 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, Guide it,
Serenissima motorway: exit Desenzano del Garda, then direction Castiglione delle Stiviere, Guidizzolo
Highway: exit Cremona, then direction Mantua, Buttonhole, Medole
Brenner motorway: exit 
Serenissima motorway: exit 
Highway: exit On the train
The nearest stations are:
- 3 Mantua railway station, Don Leoni square. On the directives Verona-Modena.
- 4 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.
By bus
APAM service.
How to get around
What see
Oratory of San Lorenzo
- 1 Oratory of San Lorenzo.
- 2 Parish Church of Saints Peter and Paul.
- 3 Crenellated tower.
- 4 Munumento for the fallen of the Mille Miglia. In memory of the tragic road accident that took place on May 12, 1957, during the last edition of the Mille Miglia.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 Trattoria Alla Torre, Via Fabio Filzi 31, ☎ 39 0376 819151.
- 2 La Piazzetta Pizzeria Restaurant, Via H. Dunant 4, ☎ 39 0376 819541.
Where stay
Safety
How to keep in touch
Around
Morainic hills
- Monte Medolano - Small relief formed in the Pleistocene, due to its position it was the scene of numerous military events, including three important battles, in different eras, in which French and Austrian alignments were invariably measured, always with a French victory.
- 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.
- Alto Mantovano - Borderland of the Duchy of Mantua, which pursued the dream of obtaining an outlet on Lake Garda without ever realizing it, developed the courts of cadet branches of the Gonzaga family. Castel Goffredo, Castiglione delle Stiviere, Carpenedolo retain the urban layout and monuments of that era. The post-war period saw good employment development, with a consequent increase in well-being and population.
- 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.
- 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. A commemorative tower rises on the hill of the battle; an ossuary holds thousands of remains of fallen soldiers from the opposing armies.
- Castiglione delle Stiviere - City of the Red Cross and of San Luigi Gonzaga, protagonist in the wars of the Risorgimento, it was a Gonzaga center; retains a beautiful historic core that extends over the morainic hills south of Lake Garda. After the war it experienced a strong economic expansion that favored an important demographic growth, making it the reference center of theAlto Mantovano.
- Castel Goffredo - The industrialized "city of the sock" of modern times has a past as a Gonzaga capital which has endowed it with an important historic center; the squares, the arcades, the churches, the palaces permeate it with the unmistakable atmosphere that characterizes the urban planning of the Gonzagas.
Itineraries
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
