| Suzzara | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Lombardy | |
| Territory | Oltrepò Mantua | |
| Altitude | 20 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 60 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 21.134 (2014) | |
| Name inhabitants | Suzzaresi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0376 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 46029 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | San Biagio (February 3) | |
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Suzzara is a city ofOltrepò Mantua in Lombardy.
To know
It is the most populous city in the vast Lombard area south of the Po which takes the name of Oltrepò Mantua. It was a borderland between the Duchy of Modena, the Duchy of Mantua, and the Duchy of Guastalla, belonging now to one and now to the other, until its destiny was definitively linked to the Duchy of the Gonzaga of Mantua. It was a land of swamps and for a certain period an island between the Po and Zara, until the Po changed its course by moving north, and the Zara that gave it its name was reduced until it dried up. It was a fortified land, until the defenses were demolished, leaving only the Tower to remember. It is now the center of agriculture and trade, industry and culture, a city that has experienced great housing development and a significant demographic increase, playing a driving role for the economy of this slice of the Po Valley between Lombardy and Emila.
Geographical notes
In an eccentric position with respect to its territory, on the eastern border close to the beautiful lowlands of Reggio Guastalla, is 21 km from Mantua, 13 from Guastalla, 37 from Casalmaggiore and 41 from Reggio Emilia.
Background
Documented in the ninth century, Suzzara takes its name from its location sub Zara, under the Zara, an ancient river that later dried up. It was part of the County of Brescia; it was owned by the Bishop of Reggio, then by the Canossa family. It becomes a center of a certain importance when it becomes a borderland between the Municipalities of Mantua is Reggio Emilia and it is at the center of disputes and armed conflicts between Mantua and Reggio for the control of the Oltrepò; in fact, the construction of its castle and its fortifications dates back to this period, of which only the civic tower remains, which reaches a height of 32 meters, stands out in the profile of the city and has become its symbol. With the birth of the Lordships the city in 1383 became part of the lands subject to the Gonzagas, and remained there until 1710 when the Duchy of Mantua was absorbed into the Austrian dominions following the fall of the Dukes of Mantua.
It actively participates in the Risorgimento movement: in fact there was an organization with a Carbonara imprint in Suzzara. The Kingdom of Italy sees in Suzzara the first protests of the peasant class and the proletariat. After the Second World War its economy underwent a notable industrial development as well as in the tertiary sector, so much so that it became the most industrialized center of the provincial territory, a characteristic that still belongs to it.
2012 earthquake
In January 2012 and in the following month of May 2012 strong earthquakes struck a large area of theEmilia seriously damaging numerous centers of the Emilian Po Valley between the Autostrada del Sole and the course of the Po, especially in the areas of Modena and the neighboring areas of Ferrara and Reggio, also involving the Oltrepò Mantua, belonging to the Lombardy but orographically part of theEmilia. The earthquake, which in Emilia it also cost numerous victims, in the Oltrepò it hit the historic centers of numerous cities causing collapses, subsidence and injuries in churches and ancient monuments and damaging many others. The centers most affected were Wife, Pegognaga, San Giacomo delle Segnate, Poggio Rusco, Quistello, Gonzaga, San Giovanni del Dosso.
How to orient yourself
Suzzara: full screen map.Neighborhoods
The towns of Brusatasso, Riva, Sailetto, San Prospero and Tabellano are centers in the territory of Suzzara.
How to get
By plane
- 1 Parma airport (G. Verdi), Via Emilia - Golese locality, ☎ 39 0521 951511.
- 2 Bologna airport, Via Triumvirato 84, ☎ 39 051 6479615.
- 3 Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport (the Caravaggio), Via Aeroporto 13, Orio al Serio, ☎ 39 035 326323.
- 4 Brescia Airport (D'Annunzio), Via Aeroporto 34, Montichiari (Connections with Brescia airport are guaranteed by public transport via the bus. The stop a Brescia city is located at the bus station (number 23), while that of the airport is at the front of the terminal. There are also connections to the city of Verona via bus / shuttle line 1), ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected]. Charter only
- 5 Verona Airport (Catullus), Boxes of Sommacampagna, ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected].
On the train
It has its own station on the lines:
- and therefore constitutes an important railway junction for the whole area.
How to get around
What see
- Civic tower.
- Church of the Immaculate Conception.
- Church of San Colombano (in Riva). The church stands on an ancient building built by the monks of Bobbio. It preserves numerous important paintings.
- Villa Grassetti (Villa of the Seminary) (to Sailetto). It is an imposing structure of sixteenth-century origins.
Events and parties
- Suzzara Award (Review of contemporary art).
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Moderate prices
- Dolce Vita Pizzeria, Via Piave, 8, ☎ 39 0376 532156.
- [link not working]Da Cuomo restaurant and pizzeria, Viale Lenin 1 / b, ☎ 39 0376 532224, @[email protected].
- Ristorante Pizzeria Da Marco, Via Bianchi Gina, 31 / A, ☎ 39 0376 532205.
- B&B Corte San Colombano, Cavallara road 5 (at Riva di Suzzara), ☎ 39 3472771074.
- B&B corte Fitti, Strada Roncobonoldo 50, ☎ 39 0376 525977, 39 334145195.
Where stay
Moderate prices
- Hotel Da Battista, piazza Castello 14 / a, ☎ 39 0376 531225, fax: 39 0376 531451.
- Blue Hotel hotel, via dell'Artigianato 5 / D, ☎ 39 0376 522750, fax: 39 0376 522751.
Average prices
- [link not working]Hotel Garden, via Nievo 16 / A, ☎ 39 0376 532074, fax: 39 0376 533366.
Safety
How to keep in touch
Around
- 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 an acknowledgment 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.
- Sabbioneta - City of foundation, UNESCO World Heritage Site, maintains the walls within which the magic of ideal urban planning by Vespasiano Gonzaga has remained intact; the Teatro all'Antica, the Ducal Palace, the Gallery, the Incoronata church are some of its monuments that stand out in a context that has been admirably preserved.
- Guastalla - It was the capital of the Duchy with Parma is Piacenza; it had also been so first with the Gonzagas and then with the Torelli. Its historic center, with traces of the ancient ramparts, retains an important urban tone.
- San Benedetto Po - The Polirone Abbey perpetuates the memory of Matilde di Canossa, the Grand Countess which linked the name of the town to its fame. The majesty and beauty of the church and the convent structures, combined with the wide breadth of the square, make it a destination of great interest.
- Colorno - Its Royal Palace belonged to the Sanseverino, then to the Farnese, Maria Luigia of Austria, the Bourbons; it is by far the most important monument of this little Versailles Parma, which also offers a small but beautiful historic center, close to the Lorno stream that gives it its name and Parma, not far from the Po.
- Pomponesco - City of foundation, it owes its sixteenth-century urban structure to Giulio Cesare Gonzaga in which the scenographic porticoed square stands out, which connects with a staircase to the Po embankment, on which the archpriest church and the civic palace overlook on two sides; unfortunately only a few traces of the castle remain on the fourth side.
- Viadana - capital of the Viadanese, its vast historical center, of good interest, lives of Po Valley and Gonzaga atmospheres. The ring road avenues mark the route of the ancient disappeared walls; the arcaded streets of the center distinguish the city with the Gonzaga urban style.
- Casalmaggiore - Capital of Casalasco, protected by mighty embankments, the city develops parallel to the bed of the Po. The wide breath of the main square, the undeniable majesty of the Town Hall and the Cathedral reveal its character as an important center of the Bassa. The Sanctuary of the Madonna della Fontana, the church of Santa Chiara, the church of the Hospital are among its outstanding monuments.
- Parma - One of the major cities of art inEmilia, it maintains with great evidence the aspect, elegance and ways of life of a capital, as it was for centuries. The Farnese della Pilotta palace, the Romanesque Cathedral, the Steccata church are some of the monumental emergencies that characterize the city; of great fame his theater, his musical tradition (Giuseppe Verdi), his school of painting (Correggio, Parmigianino), his love for good food (Parma ham, salami, Parmigiano Reggiano, Lambrusco).
Itineraries
- 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.
- Rice road - The itinerary - to be carried out in particular from May to September - runs through the Mantua area dedicated to the cultivation of rice, between rivers and canals.
- 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.
- Matildic churches in the Mantuan Oltrepò - The itinerary goes to the discovery of the churches and oratories that were built between the 11th and 12th centuries by Canossa, whose most representative exponent was the Grand Countess Matilde of Canossa.
