Mantua and Sabbioneta - Italy - Unesco World Heritage Site
MANTUA AND SABBIONETA. Mantua (Italian: Màntova About this sound listen (help·info), in the local dialect of Emilian language Mantua) is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the same name. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family, made it one of the main artistic,[1] cultural and notably musical hubs of Northern Italy and the whole country itself. Mantua is noted for its significant role in the history of opera,[2] and the city is known for its several architectural treasures and artifacts, elegant palaces or palazzi, and its medieval and Renaissance cityscape. It is also the town where Romeo was banished to in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes created during the 12th century.[3] These receive the waters from the Mincio, which descend from Lake Garda. The three lakes are called Lago Superiore, Lago di Mezzo, and Lago Inferiore (Superior, Middle, and Inferior Lakes).[4] A fourth lake, Lake Pajolo, which once completed a defensive water ring of the city, dried up at the end of the 18th century.Sabbioneta is a town and comune in the province of Mantua, Lombardy region, northern Italy. It is situated about 30 km north of Parma, not far from the northern bank of the Po River. It was inscribed in the World Heritage List in 2008.
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Sabbioneta was founded by Vespasiano I Gonzaga in the late 16th century along the ancient Roman Via Vitelliana, on a sandy bank of the Po (whence the name, meaning Sandy in Italian; he was its first duke, using it as a personal fortress and residence. It was also during this period that it became a minor musical centre; composers such as Benedetto Pallavicino were employed here by Vespasiano Gonzaga, prior to his moving to the main Gonzaga city of Mantua.
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Mantua and Sabbioneta*
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Galleria degli Antichi
State Party Italy
Type Cultural
Criteria ii, iii
Reference 1287
Region** Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription 2008 (32nd Session)
* Name as inscribed on World Heritage List.
** Region as classified by UNESCO.
In 2008, Sabbioneta was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List as a recognition of its perfect example of practical application of Renaissance urban planning theories.
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Mantua and Sabbioneta Italy Travel - MANTUA AND SABBIONETA. Mantua (Italian: Màntova About this sound listen (help·info), in the local dialect of Emilian language Mantua) is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the same name. Mantuas historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family, made it one of the main artistic,[1] cultural and notably musical hubs of Northern Italy and the whole country itself. Mantua is noted for its significant role in the history of opera,[2] and the city is known for its several architectural treasures and artifacts, elegant palaces or palazzi, and its medieval and Renaissance cityscape. It is also the town where Romeo was banished to in William Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet.
Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes created during the 12th century.[3] These receive the waters from the Mincio, which descend from Lake Garda. The three lakes are called Lago Superiore, Lago di Mezzo, and Lago Inferiore (Superior, Middle, and Inferior Lakes).[4] A fourth lake, Lake Pajolo, which once completed a defensive water ring of the city, dried up at the end of the 18th century.Sabbioneta is a town and comune in the province of Mantua, Lombardy region, northern Italy. It is situated about 30 km north of Parma, not far from the northern bank of the Po River. It was inscribed in the World Heritage List in 2008.
[edit] History
Sabbioneta was founded by Vespasiano I Gonzaga in the late 16th century along the ancient Roman Via Vitelliana, on a sandy bank of the Po (whence the name, meaning Sandy in Italian; he was its first duke, using it as a personal fortress and residence. It was also during this period that it became a minor musical centre; composers such as Benedetto Pallavicino were employed here by Vespasiano Gonzaga, prior to his moving to the main Gonzaga city of Mantua.
[edit] Monuments and landmarks
Mantua and Sabbioneta
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Galleria degli Antichi
State Party Italy
Type Cultural
Criteria ii, iii
Reference 1287
Region
Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription 2008 (32nd Session)
Name as inscribed on World Heritage List.
Region as classified by UNESCO.
In 2008, Sabbioneta was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List as a recognition of its perfect example of practical application of Renaissance urban planning theories.
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Mantua, Lombardy, Italy, Europe
Mantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name. In 2016, Mantua became Italian Capital of Culture. In 2017, Mantua will also be European Capital of Gastronomy, included in the Eastern Lombardy District. In 2007, Mantua's centro storico and Sabbioneta were declared by UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family has made it one of the main artistic, cultural, and especially musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole. Mantua is noted for its significant role in the history of opera; the city is also known for its architectural treasures and artifacts, elegant palaces, and the medieval and Renaissance cityscape. It is the place where the composer Monteverdi premiered his opera L'Orfeo and where Romeo was banished in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It is the nearest town to the birthplace of the Roman poet Virgil, who was commemorated by a statue at the lakeside park Piazza Virgiliana.
Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes, created during the 12th century, as the city's defence system. These lakes receive water from the Mincio River, a tributary of the Po River which descends from Lake Garda. The three lakes are called Lago Superiore, Lago di Mezzo, and Lago Inferiore. A fourth lake, Lake Pajolo, which once served as a defensive water ring around the city, dried up at the end of the 18th century. The area and its environs are important not only in naturalistic terms, but also anthropologically and historically; research has highlighted a number of human settlements scattered between Barche di Solferino and Bande di Cavriana, Castellaro and Isolone del Mincio. These dated, without interruption, from Neolithic times (5th-4th millennium BC) to the Bronze Age (2nd-1st millennium BC) and the Gallic phases (2nd–1st centuries BC), and ended with Roman residential settlements, which could be traced to the 3rd century AD.
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The city of Sabbioneta (Mantua) was designed and built by the Duke Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna. Here stands the Olympic Theatre, the first theatre bulding designed for entertainement in 1500. Vespasiano wanted Sabbioneta to be a strategic town, so he hired the greatest architects and had relations with the European courts, making it the heart of the Renaissance.
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Mantua and Sabbioneta - UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Mantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name. In 2007, Mantua's centro storico and Sabbioneta were declared by UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site.
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The St. Peter's Square, his first name, was built in 1330 after the demolition of old houses that were arranged between two parallel roads that still followed the old urban plan of the Roman city. A street, Magna Road linked the vault of St. Peter with the cathedral and the other way, Strata Sanctae Mariae Matris Domini, joined the church that gave its name to the church of Santa Croce, then incorporated in the Palazzo Ducale, which overlooked on the right side of the churchyard of the Duomo. For centuries, the square has been the center of political, religious and worldly Mantua. The predominant architecture of the square is to be traced mainly to the Middle Ages with insertions placeable in 1700 as the facade of the Cathedral and the Bishop's Palace (White) located next to the Cathedral itself. On the side of the latter's massive Romanesque bell betrays the medieval origin. On the left side of the square, looking at the facade of the Duomo, Palazzo Acerbi rise sequentially dominated by the Tower of the Cage, Palazzo Bonacolsi (Castiglioni), both adorned by three lights to all sixth and fitted with two portals archiato one and one Renaissance, Ca 'Uberti and Bishop's Palace also called Palazzo Bianchi. On the other side of the square is the Palazzo del Capitano, which dates back to 1328 years before the rise to power of the Gonzaga family, who made the initial core and the oldest of the Palazzo Ducale. Alongside this majestic building battlements, was built the Domus Magna as the previous features mullioned fifteenth. In December 2006, have been found in the southeast corner of Piazza Sordello, the remains of floors decorated with mosaics of a Roman Empire period. Currently the archaeological site, waiting for new excavations, is contained in a temporary structure so that it is permitted public viewing. This random archaeological discovery could lead to a revision of the history of Mantua, which the Roman era has always been considered marginal, but in any case as confirming the site now occupied by the square, has always been the center of the community of Mantua.
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Mantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the same name. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family, made it one of the main artistic,cultural and notably musical hubs of Northern Italy and the whole country itself. Mantua is noted for its significant role in the history of opera,and the city is known for its several architectural treasures and artifacts, elegant palaces or palazzi, and its medieval and Renaissance cityscape. Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes created during the 12th century. These receive the waters from the Mincio, which descend from Lake Garda. The three lakes are called Lago Superiore, Lago di Mezzo, and Lago Inferiore (Superior, Middle, and Inferior Lakes). A fourth lake, Lake Pajolo, which once completed a defensive water ring of the city, dried up at the end of the 18th century.
Mantova è un comune italiano, capoluogo dell'omonima provincia in Lombardia, di 48.648 residenti che, sommati a quelli dell area metropolitana (detta Grande Mantova), portano la città a contare 100.182 abitanti.
Dal luglio 2008 la città d'arte lombarda con Sabbioneta, entrambe accomunate dall'eredità loro lasciata dai Gonzaga che ne hanno fatto tra i principali centri del Rinascimento italiano ed europeo, è stata accolta fra i patrimoni dell'umanità dell'UNESCO
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Places to see in ( Mantua Mantova - Italy )
Places to see in ( Mantua Mantova - Italy )
Mantua is a city and commune in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name. In 2016, Mantua is Italian Capital of Culture, as chosen by the Italian Government on Tuesday 27 October 2015.
In 2017, Mantua will also be European Capital of Gastronomy, included in the Eastern Lombardy District (together with the cities of Bergamo, Brescia and Cremona).
In 2007, Mantua's centro storico (old town) and Sabbioneta were declared by UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family has made it one of the main artistic, cultural, and especially musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole. Mantua is noted for its significant role in the history of opera; the city is also known for its architectural treasures and artifacts, elegant palaces, and the medieval and Renaissance cityscape. It is the place where the composer Monteverdi premiered his opera L'Orfeo and where Romeo was banished in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It is the nearest town to the birthplace of the Roman poet Virgil, who was commemorated by a statue at the lakeside park Piazza Virgiliana.
The Gonzagas protected the arts and culture, and were hosts to several important artists such as Leone Battista Alberti, Andrea Mantegna, Giulio Romano, Donatello, Peter Paul Rubens, Pisanello, Domenico Fetti, Luca Fancelli and Nicolò Sebregondi. Though many of the masterworks have been dispersed, the cultural value of Mantua is nonetheless outstanding, with many of Mantua's patrician and ecclesiastical buildings being uniquely important examples of Italian architecture.
Main landmarks include:
The Palazzo Te (1525–1535), a creation of Giulio Romano (who lived in Mantua in his final years) in the mature Renaissance style, with some hints of a post-Raphaelian mannerism. It was the summer residential villa of Frederick II of Gonzaga. It hosts the Museo Civico (with the donations of Arnoldo Mondadori, one of the most important Italian publishers, and Ugo Sissa, a Mantuan architect who worked in Iraq from where he brought back important Mesopotamian artworks)
The Palazzo Ducale, famous residence of the Gonzaga family, made up of a number of buildings, courtyards and gardens gathered around the Palazzo del Capitano, the Magna Domus and the Castle of St. George with the Camera degli Sposi, a room frescoed by Andrea Mantegna.
The Basilica of Sant'Andrea was begun in 1462 according to designs by Leon Battista Alberti but was finished only in the 18th century when was built the massive dome designed by Filippo Juvarra.
The Duomo (Cathedral of Saint Peter the Apostle)
The Rotonda di San Lorenzo
The Bibiena Theater, also known as the Teatro Scientifico, was made by Antonio Bibiena in 1767-1769. It was opened officially on 3 December 1769 and on 16 January 1770, thirteen-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played a concert.
The church of San Sebastiano
The Palazzo Vescovile (Bishops Palace)
The Palazzo degli Uberti
Palazzo d'Arco, a Neoclassical palace erected by the eponoymous noble family from Trento starting from 1746. It is home to a museum and painting gallery with works by Bernardino Luini, Alessandro Magnasco, Frans Pourbus the Younger, Anthony Van Dyck and a painting cycle by Giuseppe Bazzani.
The Torre della Gabbia (Cage Tower)
The Palazzo del Podestà, Mantua
The Palazzo della Ragione with the Torre dell'Orologio (Clock Tower)
The Palazzo Bonacolsi
The Palazzo Valenti Gonzaga, an example of Baroque architecture and decoration, with frescoes attributed to Flemish painter Frans Geffels. The façade of the palace was designed by Nicolò Sebregondi.
Casa del Mercato, a frescoed Renaissance building designed by Luca Fancelli in 1462 and later used by Andrea Mantegna.
House of Mantegna, facing the church of San Sebastiano. It was built by the eponymous artist starting from 1476, and has plan with a circular internal court included within an external square building. It is now used for temporary exhibitions.
The church of Santa Paola, built in the early 15th century by the will of Marchioness Paola Malatesta, wife of Francesco I. Architects such as Luca Fancelli and Giulio Romano collaborated to its construction. It houses the tombs of five members of the Gonzaga family, including those of Paola and of Francesco II.
The church of Santa Maria del Gradaro, built starting from 1256 on the site where, according to the tradition, Saint Longinus was buried. In 1772 it became a store, and was reconsecrated only in the 1950s.
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Sabbioneta is a town and comune in the province of Mantua, Lombardy region, northern Italy. It is situated about 30 km north of Parma, not far from the northern bank of the Po River. It was inscribed in the World Heritage List in 2008.Sabbioneta was founded by Vespasiano I Gonzaga in the late 16th century along the ancient Roman Via Vitelliana, on a sandy bank of the Po (whence the name, meaning Sandy in Italian; he was its first duke, using it as a personal fortress and residence. It was also during this period that it became a minor musical centre; composers such as Benedetto Pallavicino were employed here by Vespasiano Gonzaga, prior to his moving to the main Gonzaga city of Mantua.In 2008, Sabbioneta was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List as a recognition of its perfect example of practical application of Renaissance urban planning theories.Sabbioneta is The town is also known for its historic Jewish Ghetto and Synagogue, and in particular for its Hebrew printing-press. In 1551 Tobias Foa set up the press; he had, however, published certain anti-Christian books and his career was forcibly ended. His work and possibly his type were taken up by a Christian printer, Vicenzo Conte.Vespasiano Gonzaga's town, designed according to the Renaissance principles of the Ideal City.
Sabbioneta è un comune italiano di 4.372 abitanti della provincia di Mantova in Lombardia. È stata dichiarata nel 2008 con Mantova Patrimonio dell'umanità dall'UNESCO.La città fu fondata da Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna tra il 1554/1556 e il 1591, anno della sua morte, nel luogo in cui sorgevano una rocca e un antico insediamento.Posta su un terreno alluvionale tra i fiumi Po e Oglio, nonché lungo il tracciato dell'antica via Vitelliana, occupava una posizione strategica nel cuore della Pianura padana. Per Vespasiano Gonzaga Sabbioneta doveva essere soprattutto una fortezza e la potenza del suo circuito murario la rendevano sicuramente, a quei tempi, uno dei più muniti baluardi della Lombardia di dominio spagnolo.Sabbioneta fu soprattutto la capitale di un piccolo stato posto tra i grandi stati regionali: il Ducato di Milano ad ovest, retto in quell'epoca dal governatorato spagnolo, il Ducato di Mantova ad est oltre il fiume Oglio, governato dalla linea primigenia dei Gonzaga, cugini di Vespasiano, e il Ducato di Parma e Piacenza a sud del Po, di dominio della casata Farnese, solidale e amica dello stesso Gonzaga. Il territorio del piccolo stato di Sabbioneta era principalmente concentrato alla propaggine orientale della diocesi di Cremona e costituiva un obbligato crocevia sia per i traffici commerciali nel medio corso del Po, sia per le comunicazioni tra la piana bresciana e l'Emilia.Il periodo più prospero nella storia della città fu negli anni della sua riedificazione, sotto il dominio del principe Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna, di cui divenne la residenza.La cittadina, costruita in base ai principi umanistici della città ideale, ospita al suo interno diversi monumenti quali il Palazzo Ducale o Palazzo Grande, residenza ducale e luogo deputato all'amministrazione dello stato, il Teatro all'Antica o Teatro Olimpico (1590) progettato da Vincenzo Scamozzi, primo edificio teatrale dell'epoca moderna costruito appositamente per tale funzione, la Galleria degli Antichi o Corridor Grande, deputata ad ospitare la collezione di marmi antichi nonché i trofei di caccia, il Palazzo Giardino o Casino, luogo consacrato all'otium e pregevolmente riqualificato tra il 1582 e il 1587 da Bernardino Campi e dalla sua équipe di collaboratori, le chiese dell'Assunta, Incoronata, del Carmine, la Sinagoga e lo storico quartiere ebraico, oggi non più abitato da una comunità, con le sue attività di stampa, fondate nel 1567 da Tobias Foa.
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Mantua, splendid city in the Region of Lombardy, hosts the rather evocative Palazzo Te, one of the most singularly intriguing palazzos realized during the Renaissance. Wanted by Federico Gonzaga II as a pleasure palace, it became the site of lavish parties. The palazzo is the work of painter and architect Giulio Romano, student of the school of Raffaello.
Palazzo Te overflows with symbolism, including discreet yet expert tricks and allusions, of which the Sala of Amore and Psyche is particularly exemplar. The room's walls are entirely decorated with spectacular frescoes that recount the story of Psyche, by way of an extremely refined erotic sequence that unfolds in a world free of inhibition.
Another must-see room in this structure is the Sala dei Giganti, completely covered in frescoes that narrate the mythological battle between Zeus and the Titans.
Mantova crumble cakes and lakes - Walking tour around Mantua - Lombardy Italy
In this video we walk around Mantua, also known as Mantova in Lombardy Italy. The city is known because its crumble cake, torta sbrisolona, the Gonzaga ducal palace and its water bodies. Place of culture and architecture, do not forget to visit Palazzo TE.
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The Ducal Palace, Mantua (Italian: Palazzo Ducale di Mantova, or reggia dei Gonzaga) is a group of buildings in Mantua, Lombardy, northern Italy, built between the 14th and the 17th century mainly by the noble family of Gonzaga as their royal residence in the capital of their Duchy.
The buildings are connected by corridors and galleries and are enriched by inner courts and wide gardens. The complex includes some 500 rooms and occupies an area of c. 34,000 m². Although most famous for Mantegna's frescos in the Camera degli Sposi (Wedding Room), they have many other very significant architectural and painted elements.
La Camera Picta (Latin: Painted Chamber) or Camera degli Sposi (Italian: Bridal Chamber) is the most famous room of the palace, known for its frescoes executed by Andrea Mantegna, from 1465 to 1475. The painted scenes portrays members of the Gonzaga family.
The Gonzaga family lived in the palace from 1328 to 1707, when the dynasty died out. Subsequently, the buildings saw a sharp decline, which was halted in the 20th century with a continuing process of restoration and the designation of the area as museum.
Mantua and Sabbioneta were inserted onto the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2008.
The two cities are associated for the significant bequest left to them by the noble Gonzaga Family, that envisioned and realized their magnificent Renaissance downtowns.
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Sabbioneta - The Renaissance Ideal City
The Duke Of Sabbioneta, Vespasiano Gonzaga, wanted to build the Renaissance ideal city near Mantova Italy.
Sabbioneta (MN) Italy
Di origine alto medievale. Fu acquisita dai Gonzaga nel 1435. Vespasiano Gonzaga (1531-91) ne fece una città d'arte e di cultura (è monumento nazionale). Galleria degli antichi, Palazzo del Giardino, Palazzo Ducale, Parrocchiale dell'Assunta, Chiesa dell'Incoronata e il Teatro Olimpico di V. Scamozzi 16° sec.
L'abitato è racchiuso in una cerchia esagonale di fortificazioni. Fotografia di Tiziana47.
Palazzo del Te, Mantua, Lombardy, Italy, Europe
Palazzo del Te or Palazzo Te is a palace in the suburbs of Mantua, Italy. It is a fine example of the mannerist style of architecture, the acknowledged masterpiece of Giulio Romano. The official name, and by far the most common name in Italian, is Palazzo Te, but this may be a relatively recent usage; Vasari calls it the Palazzo del T (pronounced as Te), and English-speaking writers, especially art historians, continue to call it the Palazzo del Te. In Italian this now suggests use for tea-drinking, which may account for the divergence in usage. Palazzo del Te is constructed 1524-1534 for Federico II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua. He decided in 1524 to build a pleasure palace, or Villa Suburbana. The site chosen was that of the family's stables at Isola del Te on the fringe of the marshes just outside Mantua's city walls. The architect commissioned was Giulio Romano, a pupil of Raphael. The shell of the palazzo was erected within 18 months. It is basically a square house built around a cloistered courtyard. A formal garden complemented the house. This was enclosed by colonnaded outbuildings terminated by a semi-circular colonnade known as the 'Esedra'. Like the Villa Farnesina in Rome, the suburban location allowed for a mixing of both Palace and Villa architecture. The four exterior façades have flat pilasters against rusticated walls, the fenestration indicating that the piano nobile is on the ground floor with a secondary floor above. The East façade differs from the other three by having Palladian motifs on its pilaster and an open loggia at its centre rather than an arch to the courtyard. The facades are not as symmetrical as they appear, and the spans between the columns are irregular. The centre of the North and South facades are pierced by two-storey arches without portico or pediment, simply a covered way leading to the interior courtyard. Few windows overlook the inner courtyard (cortile); the colonnaded walls are decorated on all sides by deep niches and blind windows, and the intervening surfaces are spattered by 'spezzato' (broken and blemished plaster) giving life and depth to the surfaces. Once the shell of the building was completed, for ten years a team of plasterers, carvers and fresco painters laboured, until barely a surface in any of the loggias or salons remained undecorated. Under Giulio Romano's direction, local decorative painters such as Benedetto Pagni and Rinaldo Mantovano worked extensively on the frescos. These frescoes remain today and are the most remarkable feature of the Palazzo. The subjects range from Olympian banquets in the Sala di Psiche and stylised horses in the Sala dei Cavalli to the most unusual of all giants and grotesques wreaking havoc, fury and ruin around the walls of the Sala dei Giganti. These magnificent rooms, once furnished to complement the ducal court of the Gonzaga family, saw many of the most illustrious figures of their era entertained such as the Emperor Charles V, who, when visiting in 1530, elevated his host Federico II of Gonzaga from Marquess to Duke of Mantua. One of the most evocative parts of the lost era of the palazzo is the Casino della Grotta, a small suite of intimate rooms arranged around a grotto and loggetta (covered balcony) where courtiers once bathed in the small cascade that splashed over the pebbles and shells encrusted in the floor and walls. In July 1630, during the War of the Mantuan Succession (1628–31), Mantua and the palace were sacked over three days by an Imperial army of 36,000 Landsknecht mercenaries. The remaining populace fell victim to one of the worst plagues in history that the invaders had brought with them. The Palazzo was looted from top to bottom and remained an empty shell: nymphs, god, goddesses and giants remain on the walls of the empty echoing rooms. Part of the Palazzo today houses the Museo Civico del Palazzo Te, endowed by the publisher Arnoldo Mondadori. It contains a collection of Mesopotamian art.
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Lower Lake, Mantua, Lombardy, Italy, Europe
The geological data and paleoenvironmental indicate that during the Early Bronze Age (ca 1800 BC), along the Mincio River, downstream of the city of Mantova, developed a lake of natural origin. The current structure of the lakes of Mantua, however, was created in 1190 by the engineer Alberto Pitentino Bergamo. Since these hydraulic works, a monument of hydraulic engineering, Ancient Eight centuries, one is led to think that the lakes of Mantua are also natural lakes rather than artificial river barrages. The lake Leaky was then drained to half of '700, so that the city of Mantova turned into a peninsula. The lakes of Mantua from 1984 are part of the Mincio Park. The Lower Lake is the shallowest of the three lakes having a maximum depth of only 9 m and an average of 3 m. It is located at an altitude of 15 m equal to that of Lake Mezzo. Masetti dam separates the lake from the Lower Vallazza and the lower course of the Mincio. Since 1947, the land on the left bank were affected by the birth of the industrial area of Mantova be begun work on the construction of a refinery, still active today, which began production in December 1953.