Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Brescia, Italy
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2.8 km
48 m
Explore Brescia in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in BresciaIndividual Sights in BresciaSight 1: Museo di Santa Giulia
The Museum of Santa Giulia is the main museum of Brescia, located in via dei Musei 81/B, the ancient place decumines maximum of Roman brixia. It is hosted inside the monastery of Santa Giulia, erected by king desire in the Lombard era and variously expanded and modified in more than a thousand years of history.
Sight 2: Chiesa di San Salvatore
San Salvatore is a former monastery in Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy, now turned into a museum. The monastic complex is famous for the diversity of its architecture which includes Roman remains and significant pre-Romanesque, Romanesque and Renaissance buildings.
Sight 3: Chiesa di San Zeno al Foro
San Zeno al Foro is a church in center of the city of Brescia, situated in Piazza del Foro on the Via dei Musei, a few yards from the ruins of the Roman Capitoline temple in the city.
Sight 4: Foro Romano
The Roman Forum of Brescia was the ancient main square of the city center of Brixia starting from the first century BC and later completed by Vespasian. Much of the original square is now modelled on the Piazza del Foro, while the remains of most of the buildings that overlooked it have been brought to light outside or in the basement of the buildings that currently surround the square. This monumental archaeological complex preserves the major public buildings of the Roman age in northern Italy and for this reason it has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, part of the serial site "Longobards in Italy: the places of power".
Sight 5: Teatro Romano
The Roman Theatre of Ancient Brixia is a building located in the present-day city of Brescia, near the Capitoline Temple and the Forum Square.
Sight 6: Tempio Capitolino
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The Capitolium of Brixia or the Temple of the Capitoline Triad in Brescia was the main temple in the center of the Roman town of Brixia (Brescia), in Northern Italy, in the modern region of Lombardy. It is represented at present by fragmentary ruins, but is part of an archeological site, including a Roman theater and museum in central Brescia. It forms part of the Longobards in Italy: Places of Power UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2011.
Sight 7: Scavi archeologici di palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco Novarino
The archaeological excavations of Palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco Novarino in Brescia were opened in 1998 in the basement of the palace, after eight years of work that involved the varied stratigraphy that affects the area below the building. The excavations have brought to light testimonies and finds ranging from prehistory to the Middle Ages, confirming the three-thousand-year history of Piazza del Foro and this area of the city of Brescia.
Wikipedia: Scavi archeologici di palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco Novarino (IT)
Sight 8: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Carità
Santa Maria della Carità or just known as the Carità, or the church of the Buon Pastore, is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on Via dei Musei corner via Rosa in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 9: Cattedrale estiva di Santa Maria Assunta
The Duomo nuovo, or more correctly the summer cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, is the main church of Brescia, the mother church of the diocese of the same name and an Italian national monument. It is located in Piazza Paolo VI, also known as Piazza del Duomo, and is part of two cathedrals adjacent to each other, namely the old cathedral. The place of worship was erected between 1604 and 1825 on the site of the early Christian basilica of San Pietro de Dom, dating back to the 5th-6th century. In addition, it is the seat of a parish that is part of the pastoral area of Brescia Centro.
Sight 10: Monumento ai caduti delle Dieci giornate di Brescia.
The Monument to Bella Italia or Bell'Italia, officially the Monument to the Fallen of the Ten Days of Brescia, is a marble monument located in the northeast branch of Piazza della Loggia in Brescia, Italy.
Sight 11: Chiesa di Sant'Agata
Sant'Agata is a 15th-century, Roman Catholic church located on Corsetto Sant'Agata at Piazza della Vittoria in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 12: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pace
Saint Mary of the Peace Church is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on Via Pace in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy. The church belongs to the Oratorians.
Sight 13: Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi
San Francesco is a Romanesque-Gothic style, Roman Catholic church and Franciscan monastery located on Via San Francesco d'Assisi in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 14: Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli
The church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli is located on Corso Martiri della Libertà in Brescia.
Sight 15: Chiesa dei Santi Nazaro e Celso
The church of Santi Nazaro e Celso is located on Corso Giacomo Matteotti, at the intersection with via Fratelli Bronzetti, in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. The church contains the Averoldi Polyptych (1522), a masterwork of Titian.
Sight 16: Chiesa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano
Santi Cosma e Damiano is a church in central Brescia, a region of Lombardy, Italy.
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