| San Martino della Battaglia | ||
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| State | Italy | |
|---|---|---|
| Region | Lombardy | |
| Territory | Lake Garda | |
| Altitude | 87 m a.s.l. | |
| Inhabitants | 1.063 (2001) | |
| Prefix tel | 39 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 25010 | |
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San Martino della Battaglia is a fraction of Desenzano del Garda, in Lombardy.
To know
Historic location where the famous one took place on 24 June 1859 battle, during which Napoleon III defeated the Austrians commanded by Francesco Giuseppe. It acquired its current name after the historic battle of San Martino in the second war of independence was fought there (June 24, 1859), in which the forces of the Kingdom of Sardinia, led by Vittorio Emanuele II, allied to the French of Napoleon III, defeated the Austrians, led by Emperor Franz Joseph.
Geographical notes
Small town located on a relief of the Morainic Hills, near the Lake Garda.
Panorama of San Martino seen from Solferino. In the background, Monte Baldo
How to orient yourself
San Martino della Battaglia: full screen map.How to get
By plane
- 1 Verona-Villafranca Airport (Valerio Catullo), Boxes of Sommacampagna (VR), ☎ 39 045 8095666, fax: 39 045 8619074.
- Brescia-Montichiari Airport (Gabriele D'Annunzio), Via Aeroporto, 34, Montichiari (BS), ☎ 39 030 9656599, fax: 39 030 9656514. Charter only
By car
- Sirmione tollbooth (A4 Turin-Trieste motorway)
On the train
- 2 Desenzano del Garda-Sirmione station (Desenzano station), Piazza Einaudi, Desenzano del Garda. Served by Frecciabianca for Milano Centrale, Torino Porta Susa, Trieste Centrale and Venezia Santa Lucia, by Frecciarossa for Brescia and Roma Termini and by regional for Milano Centrale and Verona Porta Nuova.
How to get around
What see
1 Vittorio Emanuele II Tower. 
€ 5.00. Price for children under 10 € 2.00, from 11 to 18 years € 4.00, from 18 to 25 years € 5.00, price for over 65s € 4.00. The rate includes admission to the Museum and the Tower.. 
From October to February: Monday to Saturday 09h00 - 12h00 / 14h00 - 17h30, Sunday and holidays 09h00 - 19h00 - From March to September: Monday to Saturday 09h00 - 12h30 / 14h30 - 19h00, Sunday and holidays 09h00 - 19h00. It was built in 1880 on the highest hill where the bloodiest phase of the famous battle of San Martino was fought on June 24, 1859, in memory of those who fought for the unity of Italy. It was inaugurated on October 15, 1893, in the presence of King Umberto I. At the base there is a drum crowned by brick battlements, with a diameter of 23 meters. The cylinder of the tower rests on the drum, the top of which protrudes from a crown of cantilevered arches. Inside, a spiral ramp leads to the top of the tower, from which you can enjoy a remarkable view of the lower Lake Garda and the morainic hills, up to the Po valley. On the sides of the ramp, there are some rooms with bronze busts and frescoes by the painter Vittorio Emanuele Bressanin representing some episodes of the Risorgimento wars: Allegory of Italy and seven Italian cities, The Vignale Convention, The entry into Milan of Vittorio Emanuele II and Napoleon III after the victory of Magenta, Vittorio Emanuele at the Palestro bridge, Vittorio Emanuele in the Campidoglio, Defense of Venice.
€ 5.00. Price for children under 10 € 2.00, from 11 to 18 years € 4.00, from 18 to 25 years € 5.00, price for over 65s € 4.00. The rate includes admission to the Museum and the Tower.. 
From October to February: Monday to Saturday 09h00 - 12h00 / 14h00 - 17h30, Sunday and holidays 09h00 - 19h00 - From March to September: Monday to Saturday 09h00 - 12h30 / 14h30 - 19h00, Sunday and holidays 09h00 - 19h00. It was built in 1880 on the highest hill where the bloodiest phase of the famous battle of San Martino was fought on June 24, 1859, in memory of those who fought for the unity of Italy. It was inaugurated on October 15, 1893, in the presence of King Umberto I. At the base there is a drum crowned by brick battlements, with a diameter of 23 meters. The cylinder of the tower rests on the drum, the top of which protrudes from a crown of cantilevered arches. Inside, a spiral ramp leads to the top of the tower, from which you can enjoy a remarkable view of the lower Lake Garda and the morainic hills, up to the Po valley. On the sides of the ramp, there are some rooms with bronze busts and frescoes by the painter Vittorio Emanuele Bressanin representing some episodes of the Risorgimento wars: Allegory of Italy and seven Italian cities, The Vignale Convention, The entry into Milan of Vittorio Emanuele II and Napoleon III after the victory of Magenta, Vittorio Emanuele at the Palestro bridge, Vittorio Emanuele in the Campidoglio, Defense of Venice.
- 2 San Martino Museum.
- 3 Ossuary Church. The ossuary, housed in the noble chapel of the Treccani counts, collects 1274 skulls and bones of 2619 soldiers of the Sardinian Army and the VIII Austrian Army Corps who took part in the second war of independence and fought the bloody battle of Saint martin. The driveway to the chapel houses a series of memorial stones of the various departments that took part in the fighting.
Events and parties
Battle of Solferino, June 24, 1859 - 2 pm
- [link not working]Historical reenactment of the battle June 24, 1859. June 24 and following of each year.
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 Farmhouse Il Colombarino, Via Colombarino 1, ☎ 39 030 9990432.
- 2 Osteria alla Torre restaurant, Via torre 1, ☎ 39 030 9108261.
- 3 Trattoria Italy, Via Ronchedone (Near the A4 motorway exit), ☎ 39 030 9910135.
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 (Grottoes of Catullus), 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.
Itineraries
Morainic hills of Lake Garda
- 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.
- Romanesque churches of the Riviera del Garda - The itinerary goes to the discovery of the Romanesque parishes and churches Brescia.
- 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.
- 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 the Veneto. An itinerary to discover the strongholds and the history of Veneto.
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