| Bridges over the Mincio | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Lombardy | |
| Territory | Alto Mantovano | |
| Altitude | 113 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 11 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 2.357 (2014) | |
| Name inhabitants | pontiroli | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0376 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 46040 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
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Bridges over the Mincio is a municipality of the province of Mantua in Lombardy, located in theAlto Mantovano.
To know
It is located between the morainic hills of the amphitheater of Garda and inserted in the Mincio Regional Park.
How to orient yourself
Ponti sul Mincio: full screen map.How to get
How to get around
What see
- 1 Castle. from the 12th century.
- 2 Forte Ardietti. built in 1856.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
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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.
- 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.
- Castellaro Lagusello - Ancient fortified village from the 12th century, it stands on a hill overlooking a heart-shaped lake. It was long disputed by the lords of the time: Bonacolsi, Scaligeri, Visconti, Gonzaga and the Republic of Venice. Since 2011 the resort Tacoli Fund of its territory has become part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites within the supranational site named Ancient settlements in the Alps.
- 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.
Itineraries
Morainic hills of Lake Garda
- Ponti sul Mincio is part of the Route of Mantuan Wines and Flavors, a food and wine tourism promotion path about 300 kilometers long and recognized by the Lombardy Region, which winds through province of Mantua on a territory of 41 municipalities, including: Castiglione delle Stiviere, Buttonhole, Curtatone, Sabbioneta, Viadana, Mantua, Bagnolo San Vito, San Benedetto Po, Quistello, Gonzaga, San Giacomo delle Segnate, Poggio Rusco, Ostiglia, Goito, Volta Mantovana, Monzambano is Cavriana. The route is intertwined with other tourist itineraries in the area: Route of Rice and Risotto Mantovani is Mantuan Truffle Road.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Walled cities of Veneto. An itinerary to discover the strongholds and the history of Veneto.
- Towers and castles of the Alto Mantovano
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