| Volta Mantovana | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Lombardy | |
| Territory | Alto Mantovano | |
| Altitude | 91 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 50.31 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 7.399 (2014) | |
| Name inhabitants | turned | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0376 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 46049 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | St. Mary Magdalene | |
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Volta Mantovana is a city of Lombardy.
To know
Geographical notes
The territory of Volta Mantovana belongs to the sub-hilly area located at the foot of the hills that delimit the Lake Garda towards the Po Valley. The official altitude of Volta Mantovana, corresponding to the point on which the Palazzo Comunale stands, is 91 meters above sea level.
When to go
Volta Mantovana enjoys a typical temperate continental climate of the high Po Valley and mid-latitudes. As in the rest of the surrounding plain, winters are moderately rigid, with little rain and foggy days; summers are hot and sultry in the months of July and August, with temperatures that can rise above 35º and with stormy rainfall; springs and autumns are generally rainy. In spring and autumn, the climate is milder and more humid.
Panorama
How to orient yourself
Volta Mantovana: full screen map.How to get
By car
- A4 motorway: Peschiera del Garda exit, follow the directions for Brescia and after 1 km for Mantua
- Highway A22: exit Mantova Nord, follow the signs for Brescia and take the state road SS 62.After Goito, turn right
On the train
- Mantova station: on the Verona – Modena line. From the station continue by bus using APAM line 7 (Mantova-Castiglione delle Stiviere), or line 2 (Mantova – Brescia)
- Peschiera del Garda station: on the Milan-Venice line.
How to get around
What see
- 1 Gonzaga-Guerrieri Palace.
- 2 Castle.
- 3 parish church.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
I understood
The typical dish is the Capunsei.
- Villa Boselli, Via Boselli 6, ☎ 39 0376 83312.
Where stay
- La Valle Hotel, Via Goito 51, ☎ 39 0376 803217, fax: 39 0376 803052.
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, 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 buildings 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. On the hill of the confrontation there is a commemorative tower; an ossuary holds thousands of remains of fallen soldiers from the opposing armies.
- Cavriana - His Pieve stands isolated on a hill and is one of the most important and best preserved Romanesque churches of the ancient Duchy of Mantua. With a single nave, entirely in terracotta and with a wooden truss roof, the temple was built in the 11th century.
Itineraries
Morainic hills of Lake Garda
- Volta Mantovana is part of the Route of Mantuan Wines and Flavors, a path of food and wine tourism promotion, 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, Monzambano, Bridges over the Mincio is Cavriana. The route is intertwined with other tourist itineraries in the area: Route of Rice and Risotto Mantovani is Mantuan Truffle Road.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Towers and castles of the Alto Mantovano
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