Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Brescia, Italy
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Experience Brescia in Italy in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in BresciaIndividual Sights in BresciaSight 1: Chiesa di Santa Maria in Silva
The church of Santa Maria in Silva is a church in Brescia, Italy, located on the side of Via Corsica, in the last stretch before Piazza della Repubblica. The building, built to a design by the architect Rodolfo Vantini between 1853 and 1857, replaced the ancient church on the other side of the road, which was demolished. The church, in addition to being important in itself as a work by Vantini, contains some valuable paintings, including a fresco by Angelo Inganni, a canvas by Lattanzio Gambara and one by an anonymous artist of the sixteenth century.
Sight 2: Chiesa di Sant'Orsola
The church of Sant'Orsola is a church in Brescia, Italy, located along Via Moretto, between the church of Santa Croce and the intersection with Via Gramsci. Built at the beginning of the seventeenth century by the Ursulines with the aim of expanding their religious community in the city, after the suppression of 1797 it was recovered by the friars of the Fatebenefratelli who established a large hospital in the adjoining convent, which is still active today. The church is now the chapel of the health center, but the daily evening mass is always open to the public.
Sight 3: Teatro Grande
The Teatro Grande is the main performance venue for the city of Brescia, Italy. The venue hosts performances of operas, musicals, plays, concerts, ballet, modern dance, and other various entertainments.
Sight 4: Chiesa di San Luca
The church of San Luca is a church in Brescia, Italy, located along Via San Martino della Battaglia, just south of the intersection with Corso Zanardelli. Founded in the thirteenth century, it underwent the first renovations in the fifteenth century and a more radical one in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century the interiors were also reversed for the opening of the new entrance on Via San Martino della Battaglia. It contains discreet pictorial and sculptural works of art. Blessed Giuseppe Tovini and the pedagogist Vittorino Chizzolini, for whom the process of canonization is underway, are buried in the church.
Sight 5: Teatro Sociale
The Teatro Sociale is a theater in Brescia, Italy, second in size and capacity to the Teatro Grande, located in Via Felice Cavallotti, east of Piazza Bruno Boni. Founded in 1851 as the Guillaume theater, it has been rebuilt twice and the current structure, in full Art Nouveau style, dates back to 1905. Long abandoned in the second half of the twentieth century, it was recovered at the end of the century and reopened to the public in 2000.
Sight 6: Chiesa di San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located on via Moretto, just north of Camera di Commercio di Brescia, and near Piazza Bruno Boni, in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 7: Chiesa di Sant'Alessandro
Sant'Alessandro is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic parish church located on Via Moretto, 73/A in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 8: Chiesa di Sant'Angela Merici
Sant'Angela Merici is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church located on Via Francesco Crispi, in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 9: Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo
The Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo is a public art museum in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 10: Chiesa di San Gaetano
The church of San Gaetano is an ancient church located on Via Calegari at the intersection of Via Monti in Brescia.
Sight 11: Chiesa di Sant'Afra in Sant'Eufemia
The church of Sant'Afra in Brescia, also known as the church of Sant'Afra in Sant'Eufemia, is located on Corso Magenta, near Piazzale Arnaldo.
Sight 12: Monumento ad Arnaldo da Brescia
The monument to Arnaldo da Brescia is a bronze monument located at the east end of Piazzale Arnaldo in Brescia, dedicated to the friar Arnaldo da Brescia. Modeled by the sculptor Odoardo Tabacchi in the statue and in the other bronze parts and by Antonio Tagliaferri in the base, it was inaugurated in 1882 and has been one of the most famous and characteristic monuments of the city ever since.
Sight 13: Chiesa di Santa Maria in Calchera
The church of Santa Maria in Calchera is a Catholic place of worship in Brescia, located in the south-west corner of the square of the same name, along Via Trieste, a short distance from Piazzale Arnaldo. Of very ancient origin, it was radically restored from the sixteenth century onwards, until the eighteenth century.
Sight 14: 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 15: Museo di Santa Giulia
The Museum of Santa Giulia is the main museum in Brescia, located in Via dei Musei 81/b, the ancient decumanus maximus of Roman Brixia. It is housed inside the monastery of Santa Giulia, built by King Desiderius in the Lombard era and variously expanded and modified in more than a thousand years of history.
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