| Mincio Regional Park | |
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| Area type | Regional park |
|---|---|
| State | Italy |
| Region | Lombardy |
| Territory | Mantua |
| Surface | 16,000 ha |
| Foundation year | 1984 |
| Institutional website | |
The Mincio Regional Park is located in Lombardy.
To know
It ranges from the morainic hills to the terraced plain, from the meandering area with paleoalvei to the complex of the lakes of Mantua. An exceptional variety of situations, in which there are also notable architectural and artistic elements including the Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the building of Bosco Fontana hunting and numerous villas from the time of the Gonzaga. The territory of the Park is crossed by the Mantua-Peschiera cycle path, which winds for almost 40 km, most of which in its own seat with unpaved sections, along the course of the Mincio river.
Geographical notes
Mincio Regional Park: full screen map.The park extends for about 16,000 hectares between the provinces of Mantua and of Verona and affects the following municipalities: Mantua, Bridges over the Mincio, Monzambano, Volta Mantovana, Goito, Marmirolo, Porto Mantovano, Rodigo, Curtatone, Borgo Virgilio, Bagnolo San Vito, Roncoferraro is Sustinente.
They are part of the complex: the Nature reserve Moraine complex of Castellaro Lagusello, the Bosco Fontana Nature Reserve, the Vallazza nature reserve, the Valli del Mincio Nature Reserve and the Vallazza nature reserve.
Flora and fauna
Flora
There Flora of the park.
Fauna
Storks, white herons, gray herons, red herons, gauze and egrets, night herons, pendulums, kingfisher, bee-eater, coot, cannereccione, peregrine falcon, marsh harriers, great grebe, black kite.
There fauna list of the park.
Background
It was established by regional law of 1984 by Lombardy region.
How to get
By plane
- Verona-Villafranca Catullo Airport (20 km away)
- Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport (90 km away)
- Bologna airport (130 km)
By car
- From Mantua city: SS 236BIS per Marmirolo, continue for the SP 21, SP 27, continue for Valeggio sul Mincio, then for the SP 28, SP 74 and follow the signs for Monzambano;
- From the Mantova Nord tollbooth: Exit the A22 motorway, take the SS 236BIS for Marmirolo, continue for the SP 21, SP 27, continue for Valeggio sul Mincio, then for the SP 28, SP 74 and follow the signs for Monzambano;
- From the toll booth of Sirmione: Exit the A4 motorway at Sirmione, continue for Pozzolengo, take the SP 18, SP 74 and follow the signs for Monzambano.
How to get around
What see
- Castle of Castellaro Lagusello.
- Castle of Monzambano.
- Sanctuary of Grace.
What to do
- 1 River excursions by boat in the Park, Porticciolo di Grazie (c / o Parco behind the Sanctuary) - Grazie di Curtatone, ☎ 39 0376 349292, 39 349 6194396, fax: 39 0376 1473002, @[email protected].
Excursions from March to October.
Excursions from March to October.Shopping
Where to eat
Where to eat
- Locanda delle Grazie, Via Pio X 2 - Thanks for Curtatone, ☎ 39 0376 348038.
- Trattoria al Cacciatore, Via Pio X 21 - Thanks for Curtatone, ☎ 39 0376 348028.
Where stay
Safety
How to keep in touch
- Mincio Park, Citadel Porta Giulia 10, Mantua, ☎ 39 0376 22831, 39 0376 228320, fax: 39 0376 362657, @[email protected]. Telephone booking for visits.
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.
- Mantua - Capital of the Gonzagas, it still exudes its subtle charm of a great city of art for which it appoints it a UNESCO World Heritage Site it was not so much a recognition as a necessary acknowledgment. Its ancient atmospheres are incomparable, the profiles of the palaces and domes that stand out in the Po Valley mist enveloped by the mirror of its lakes, its endless Gonzaga palace that incorporates numerous buildings in the city center.
- 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.
Itineraries
- Rice road
- The Road of the Castles (Mantua) - Allows you to visit the main castles in the area.
- 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.
- 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.
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