Dovarese Island - Isola Dovarese

Dovarese Island is a city of Lombardy.

To know

Geographical notes

Located on a bend of the Oglio river, in the Po Valley, it is a center of Gonzaga imprint on the border between the Mantuan, the Cremonese and theOglio Po Casalasco Viadanese. Attracted by all three of these territories, he has now been linked to one, now to the other, alternating his choices of field also according to the variation of the local administrative teams. It is 25 km away. from Cremona, 26 from Casalmaggiore, 44 from Mantua.

Isola Dovarese is interested in the South Oglio Park (headquarters in Calvatone), protected regional area. The river areas of the territories of Acquanegra sul Chiese make up the Oglio Sud Park • Canneto sull'Oglio • Casalromano • Marcaria • Ostiano • I want to on the left bank; Cocoon • Calvatone • Commessage • Halyard • Gazzuolo • Dovarese Island • Pessina Cremonese • Piadena • San Martino dall'Argine • Viadana on the right bank.

Background

Its name is related to its location. The town is in fact close to Oglio which in the past, without embankments, extended into a territory in which stretches of higher ground emerged, the islands in fact; dovarese as it was a fief of the noble Dovara family to which it was given in 1190 by the Municipality of Cremona to which it belonged. After a subsequent brief domination by the Cavalcabò, Isola submitted to the Gonzagas in the hope of putting an end to the continuous wars that troubled it opposing its powerful neighbors for its control.

How to orient yourself

The territory of Isola is interested in the Oglio Sud Park (headquarters in Calvatone), protected regional area. The river areas of the territories of Oglio Sud constitute the Acquanegra sul Chiese • Canneto sull'Oglio • Casalromano • Marcaria • Ostiano • I want to on the left bank; Cocoon • Calvatone • Commessage • Halyard • Gazzuolo • Dovarese Island • Pessina Cremonese • Piadena • San Martino dall'Argine • Viadana on the right bank.

How to get

By plane

• Airport Giuseppe Verdi of Parma
• Airport Valerio Catullo of Verona
• Airport Gabriele D'Annunzio of Montichiari (BS)
• Airport Caravaggio of Orio al Serio (BG)

By car

It is not far from the former state road 10 Cremona - Mantua

The closest motorway exits are those of:

• Cremona on the highway Turin - Brescia
• Mantua on the Brenner motorway
• Parma on the Autostrada del Sole.

On the train

• Station a Torre de 'Picenardi on the Cremona Mantova line
• Station a Piadena, at the intersection of the lines Mantua - Cremona is Parma - Brescia

How to get around

What see

• Piazza Matteotti and the Gonzaga arcades. The inhabited center is gathered around the splendid Gonzaga square commissioned by Giulio Cesare Gonzaga, designed by the architect Brunelli and built in the shape of a quadrilateral around 1590. The Renaissance creation with a large straight portico was later completed by the Palazzo Pretorio (current town hall) and by the Theater built by the Gonzagas as a Sabbioneta it's at Cocoon.

In the long façade of the arcades a Gonzaga brick arch is inserted halfway, surmounted by a tympanum, which leads into a street where the church of San Nicola is located. 

• Parish Church of San Nicola. The patron is a defender from the dangers of water. The church stands on a previous fifteenth-century temple. Built in neoclassical form, it has an interior with three naves, the result of a reconstruction carried out at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It preserves interesting paintings, including theEcce Homo attributable to Bernardino Campi, theAnnunciation, probable work of Giafrancesco Bembo, and a Saint Francis of Lodi. 
• Oratory of S. Giuseppe. Of 1668. 

Events and parties

• Fair of Santa Caterina. At the end of November. 
• Spring Fair. Last Sunday in May. 
• Palio delle Contrade. Second Sunday of September. 

What to do

Shopping

How to have fun

Where to eat

Average prices

• La Crepa Restaurant, Matteotti Square, ☎ 39 0375 396161. 
• Palazzo Quaranta Restaurant, wide Vittoria 12 (also Hotel), ☎ 39 0375 396162. 

Where stay

Average prices

• B&B Il Gustofilo, via Cavour 30, ☎ 39 0375 036322. 

Safety

Pharmacy

• 45.2237210.2507651 Pasquali, Via G. Garibaldi, 84, ☎ 39 0375 946126. 

How to keep in touch

Post office

• Italian post, Matteotti Square 1, ☎ 39 0375 396119, fax: 39 0375 946369. 

Keep informed

• Oglio Po news. Computer newspaper of Oglio Po. 
• ^{[link not working]}The Envoy. Online newspaper of the province - Casalmaggiore Chronicle. 
• The province, Via Pozzi, 15, ☎ 39 0375 200493, fax: 39 0375 201466. Daily newspaper - Casalmaggiore editorial staff. 

Around

• 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.
• Torre de 'Picenardi - Villa Sommi Picenardi developed from a pre-existing castle nucleus; starting from the sixteenth century it was transformed in the following centuries up to its present appearance. A body of the villa, in neoclassical style, overlooks the town square. A second factory develops inside and is connected to the ancient body of the primitive castle. A large garden surrounds the villa complex, surrounded by a large moat with water.
• San Lorenzo de 'Picenardi - Its castle, built in the fifteenth century, was enlarged over time to then arrive at its present form, majestic and decidedly castellana, in the nineteenth century, the work of the architect Luigi Voghera. The vast building, in perfect condition, shows numerous crenellated towers which give it the characteristic medieval aspect, however mitigated by the elegant character of a noble castle residence. It is surrounded by a large park.
• Cicognolo - Exposed terracotta and marble make the impressive and varied appearance of the imposing Manfredi castle, scenographic in the green of the lawn that embellishes the ground in front of the main facade, with a romantic garden and moat behind it.
• Cocoon - A Gonzaga city, it was the capital of a duchy of a collateral branch of the Gonzaga. Vespasiano worked there urban planning before putting his hand to his masterpiece: Sabbioneta; with Giulio Cesare and Scipione he defines his own elegant urban appearance that responds to sixteenth-century ideals. Of the ancient walls, however, only a short section remains severely damaged by collapses and neglect.
• Sabbioneta - City of foundation, UNESCO World Heritage Site, maintains the walls within which the magic of ideal urban planning created by Vespasiano Gonzaga has remained intact; the Teatro all'Antica, the Ducal Palace, the Gallery, the Incoronata church are some of its monuments that stand out in a context that has been admirably preserved.

Itineraries

• Isola Dovarese 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, Cream, Castelleone, Soresina, Casalbuttano, Robecco d'Oglio, Pescarolo and United, Cremona, Piadena, Torricella del Pizzo, Rivarolo del Re is Casalmaggiore.
• In the lands of the Gonzaga - 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.

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