| Medole | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Lombardy | |
| Territory | Alto Mantovano | |
| Altitude | 75 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 25.73 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 4.070 (2014) | |
| Name inhabitants | Medolese | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0376 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 46046 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
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Medole is a city of Lombardy.
To know
Background
It was for a short time, from 1610, the capital of the homonymous marquisate. It still preserves the tower of the castle, one of the oldest in the province.
How to orient yourself
Medole: 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 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
State and provincial roads
"Strada della calza": link Casaloldo, Medole and Pozzolengo
Colleague Ceresara to Cold water
Colleague Carpenedolo
"Strada della calza": link 
Colleague 
Colleague Highways
The closest motorway exits are:
Brenner motorway: exit Mantua north, then direction Brescia, Guide it, Medole
Serenissima motorway: exit Desenzano del Garda, then direction Castiglione delle Stiviere
Highway: exit Cremona, then direction Mantua, Buttonhole
Brenner motorway: exit 
Serenissima motorway: exit 
Highway: exit On the train
The nearest stations are:
- 4 Mantua railway station, Don Leoni square. On the directives Verona-Modena.
- 5 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
In the historic center
- 1 Civic tower of the castle (With adjoining Civic art collection). Dating from the 10th century.
Titian, The Risen One appears to the Mother, 1554.
- 2 Parish church. Keep the shovel inside The Risen One appears to the Mother, the work of Titian.
- 3 Ceni Palace.
- 4 Minelli Palace, Victory Square.
Outside the historic center
- 5 Parish church of Santa Maria.
6 Convent of the Annunciata, Via dell'Annunciata 19 (It can be visited on request), ☎ 39 338 3576378. The convent originated from a donation made by Guglielmo Luchino Venturella of Castel Goffredo of a private oratory, with adjoining house and vegetable garden, assigned to the Eremitani di Sant'Agostino with a brief of Pope Callisto III in 1455. In 1467 the works were probably completed or in an advanced state, the General Chapter of the Augustinian Congregation of Lombardy having been held in the convent. In 1499, Bishop Leone of the Order of the Minimi Observants consecrated the church that is now demolished. Over the course of the following centuries, the importance of the convent of the Annunciata increased thanks to the generous donations of the Gonzaga family and the municipalities of Medole and Castel Goffredo. From 1467 to 1614 there were held nine General Chapters of the Lombard Congregation of the Augustinian order (Eremitani di Sant'Agostino). On June 28, 1543, Emperor Charles V, who arrived at the Castle of Medole for a political meeting with the Gonzaga family, stopped at the convent giving the Augustinians a precious silver-bound breviary. During the sixteenth century, another illustrious presence is that of San Luigi Gonzaga, very devoted to the image kept in the convent and considered miraculous. Located on the border between Medole and Castel Goffredo, the convent of the Annunciata was the subject of a dispute between two branches of the Gonzaga family, the princes of Castiglione delle Stiviere and the marquises of Castel Goffredo, who contended for its possession for 160 years. it was also characterized by episodes of violence, as happened in 1685 when the Gonzaga militias of Mantua, at that time also lords of Castel Goffredo, came to occupy the Castle of Medole, a fief of the Castiglione branch. On 12 June 1783, under the reign of Emperor Joseph II, the suppression of the convent was decreed. In 1808 the buildings were sold by the State Property to the knight Giovanni Arrighi of Medole. On November 5, 1885, the bishop of Mantua Giuseppe Sarto, future Pope Pius X, visited the current neoclassical church and reconfirmed the authorization to celebrate mass there, as still happens today.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
- 1 The Pieve, Via Matteotti 14, ☎ 39 0376 898208.
Where stay
Average prices
- 1 La Pieve hotel, Via Matteotti 14, ☎ 39 0376 898291.
Safety
How to keep in touch
Around
| Neighboring municipalities | ||
| Castiglione delle Stiviere | Cavriana | |
| Carpenedolo |  | Guide it |
| Castel Goffredo | Ceresara | |
Morainic hills
- Monte Medolano is Monte Medolano Park - 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 welfare 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. On the hill of the confrontation there is a commemorative tower; 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 expands on 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 a production area of wines from the hills, tokai, merlot and claret.
- 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.
- 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
