| Montichiari | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Lombardy | |
| Territory | Lower Brescia | |
| Altitude | 104 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 81 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 24.516 (2013) | |
| Name inhabitants | monteclarensi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 030 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 25018 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | S. Pancrazio | |
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Montichiari is a city of Lombardy.
To know
After the capital Brescia is Desenzano del Garda, is the third most populous municipality in the province.
Geographical notes
It is placed in the high Lombard Po Valley, about twenty kilometers from the capital. It is bathed by the river Chiese.
How to orient yourself
Montichiari: full screen map.Montichiari has an important historical core. The hamlets (Novagli, Bredazzane, S. Antonio, Ro, Santa Giustina, Vighizzolo, Chiarini, Boschetti, Teotti, Fascia d'Oro and Santellone) are located radially arranged in an orderly manner on the territory, "sentinels" on the great moor, almost as if to guard the territory, which is now heavily degraded, especially in the north. In the historic center of the city there are five recently renovated and pedestrianized squares:
- Piazza Santa Maria - Formerly Piazza Garibaldi.
- Piazza Treccani degli Alfieri - East of the Duomo, where the centuries-old Friday market took place at the beginning of the twentieth century.
- Piazza Teatro - South west towards the ancient Borgosotto district, where the "Gaetano Bonoris" social theater is located.
- Piazzetta San Rocco - To the south east where the library dedicated to Giovanni Treccani degli Alfieri is located, the creator and patron of the Treccani encyclopedia, and the Pasinetti art gallery known as a former hospital.
- Piazza Municipio - A few steps from the San Rocco square, where the Town Hall is located.
Neighborhoods
Montichiari, in addition to the historic center, is divided into three other large districts:
- Borgosotto district - Also called the ancient Borgo, divided into Borgosotto and Borgosopra, it is the oldest district of the city and the first residential settlement.
- City district - It is the youngest district and represents the modern city, a shopping area, disco and entertainment area, shops, shopping centers and elegant villas.
- Allende district - Located to the east near the hospital.
How to get
By plane
The nearest airports are:
- Brescia-Montichiari Airport (3 km), for cargo, charter and private flights
- Verona-Villafranca Airport (43 km away)
- Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport (86 km away)
By car
- A4 motorway: exit Brescia east, direction Castiglione delle Stiviere is Mantua
- A21 motorway: Brescia sud exit
On the train
- Lonato del Garda station, on the Turin-Trieste line
- Desenzano del Garda station, on the Turin-Trieste line
By bus
How to get around
What see
Religious architectures
San Pancrazio Church
Facade of the cathedral
Montichiari Castle
- 1 Duomo.
- 2 Parish church of S. Pancrazio, Via Matteotti.
Free admission. 
Open every Sunday, public holidays and in October from 2.30pm to 6.30pm.. The church, built on a mountain of the same name, dates back to the 12th century and is one of the best preserved Romanesque buildings in the Lombardy. The building has a longitudinal plan with three naves separated by columns with early Christian capitals. - Church of Santa Cristina da Bolsena. 11th century.
- Church of Santa Maria del Suffragio.
- Church of San Pietro.
- Shrine of Rosa Mystica (Le Fontanelle, on the road that leads from Montichiari to Carpenedolo). Marian shrine established as a sacred place on April 17, 1966. Here, according to legend, Mary appeared in the presumed apparitions with the name of Rosa Mystica and Mother of the Church.
Free admission. 
Open every Sunday, public holidays and in October from 2.30pm to 6.30pm.. The church, built on a mountain of the same name, dates back to the 12th century and is one of the best preserved Romanesque buildings in the Civil architectures
- 3 Bonoris Castle.
- Monti Palace.
- Mazzucchelli Palace.
- Pilati Palace.
Events and parties
What to do
Garda Fair
- Garda Fair Center, Via Brescia 129, ☎ 39 030 961148, fax: 39 030 9961966.
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- Francesco Court, Viale Europa 76, ☎ 39 030 9981585.
- Trattoria Barbel, Via T. Speri 39, ☎ 39 030 9962241.
Where stay
Safety
How to keep in touch
Around
- 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.
Itineraries
Morainic hills of Lake Garda
- Montichiari is part of the Colli dei Longobardi wine route, a path of food and wine tourism promotion, about 90 kilometers long and recognized by the Lombardy Region, which winds through the province of Brescia on a territory of 9 municipalities, including: Capriano del Colle, Poncarale, Flero, Montirone, Castenedolo, Rezzato, Botticino is Brescia.
- 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 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.
- 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.
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