| Monte Medolano Park | |
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| Area type | Supra-municipal park |
|---|---|
| State | Italy |
| Region | Lombardy |
| Territory | Mantuan |
| Surface | 1,470.69 ha |
| Foundation year | 2012 |
Monte Medolano Park is a protected area located in Lombardy.
To know
Geographical notes
It is located on a small hill, Monte Medolano, formed in the Pleistocene, during the 4th glaciation, which stands in the northern area of the territory of Medole, representing the last and lonely buttress of Morainic hills of Lake Garda towards the plain valance.
Background
Due to its position, which allows you to visually dominate the vast plain below the Campo di Medole, it was the scene of numerous military events, including three important battles, in different eras, in which French and Austrians, always with a French victory:
- Battle of Medole in 1706;
- Battle of Castiglione in 1796;
- Battle of Solferino and San Martino of 1859.
Territories and tourist destinations
Monte Medolano Park: full screen map.Urban centers
How to get
Medole, the Pieve
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.
By bus
Service performed by APAM.
How to get around
What see
Commemorative plaque
- Commemorative plaques of the battles.
What to do
Shopping
Where to eat
Exercises of Medole is Castiglione delle Stiviere.
Where stay
Exercises of Medole is Castiglione delle Stiviere.
Safety
How to keep in touch
Around
Morainic hills
- 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. 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 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.
Other projects
Wikipedia contains an entry concerning Monte Medolano Park
