Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Mantua, Italy

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Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 2.8 km
Ascend 25 m
Descend 27 m

Explore Mantua 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 MantuaIndividual Sights in Mantua

Sight 1: Palazzo d'Arco

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Palazzo d'Arco Szeder László / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Palazzo D'Arco is a Neoclassical-style palace located on Piazza Carlo D'Arco #4 in Mantua, region of Lombardy, Italy. The palace houses the Museo di Palazzo d'Arco, which displays the furnishings and artwork collected by the Duke D'Arco.

Wikipedia: Palazzo D'Arco, Mantua (EN)

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 2: Chiesa di San Francesco

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The Chiesa di San Francesco is a Roman Catholic church located in the historic center of Mantua, Italy, at Piazza San Francesco d'Assisi 5.

Wikipedia: San Francesco, Mantua (EN)

351 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Santi Simone e Giuda

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Santi Simone e Giuda is a Renaissance architecture, Roman Catholic church located in Mantua, region of Lombardy, Italy. The church rises near the Palazzo d'Arco and the Church of the Fillipines in Mantua.

Wikipedia: Santi Simone e Giuda, Mantua (EN)

286 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa della Madonna del Terremoto

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The Church of the Madonna del Terremoto is a small Baroque style, Roman Catholic church in central Mantua, region of Lombardy, Italy.

Wikipedia: Madonna del Terremoto (Mantua) (EN)

235 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Basilica di Sant'Andrea

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Basilica di Sant'Andrea

The Basilica of Sant'Andrea is a Roman Catholic co-cathedral and minor basilica in Mantua, Lombardy (Italy). It is one of the major works of 15th-century Renaissance architecture in Northern Italy. Commissioned by Ludovico III Gonzaga, the church was begun in 1472 according to designs by Leon Battista Alberti on a site occupied by a Benedictine monastery, of which the bell tower (1414) remains. The building, however, was only finished 328 years later. Though later changes and expansions altered Alberti's design, the church is still considered to be one of Alberti's most complete works. It looms over the Piazza Mantegna.

Wikipedia: Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua (EN)

149 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Torre del Salaro

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The Salaro tower is a medieval building, which stands on Piazza Mantegna in Mantua in the immediate vicinity of Piazza delle Erbe.

Wikipedia: Torre del Salaro (IT)

14 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 7: Casa del Mercante

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Casa del Mercante is a historic building located in Piazza delle Erbe in Mantua, on the corner with Piazza Mantegna.

Wikipedia: Casa del Mercante (IT)

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Piazza delle Erbe

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Piazza delle Erbe is one of the main squares of Mantua.

Wikipedia: Piazza delle Erbe (Mantova) (IT)

30 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 9: Palazzo della Ragione

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The Palazzo della Ragione is a historic building in Mantua, located in Piazza delle Erbe.

Wikipedia: Palazzo della Ragione (Mantova) (IT)

175 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Torre della Gabbia

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The Tower della Gabbia is a medieval tower located on Via Cavour #102 in Mantua, region of Lombardy, Italy.

Wikipedia: Torre della Gabbia, Mantua (EN)

29 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 11: Voltone di San Pietro

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Voltone di San Pietro or Porta di San Pietro, until the end of the thirteenth century, was one of the three ancient doors which, inserted in the first wall of the city, closed access to St. Peter's Square, center of the Civitas Vetus in Mantua.

Wikipedia: Voltone di San Pietro (IT)

173 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Torre degli Zuccaro

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The Zuccaro tower is a medieval building that stands in Via Tazzoli 10 in Mantua in the immediate vicinity of the Ducal Citadel of the Gonzaga family and the historically main square of the city, Piazza Sordello. By the local population it is known in dialect as "Tor dal Sücar", sugar tower, a custom that probably originated from the linguistic deformation of the name of the family that owned it in the sixteenth century. The Mantuan historian Davari also believed that the name derives from the use of the tower, until 1769, as a warehouse for salt, a mineral that in the local dialect was called sücar brüsc, sugar with a sour taste.

Wikipedia: Torre degli Zuccaro (IT)

208 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Palazzo Castiglioni

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The Palazzo Bonacolsi, also known as Palazzo Castiglioni, is a 13th-century Gothic-style aristocratic palace located in the center of the town in Piazza Sordello in front of the Ducal Palace in Mantua, region of Lombardy, Italy.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Bonacolsi (EN)

239 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Museo archeologico nazionale di Mantova

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Museo archeologico nazionale di Mantova Szeder László / CC BY-SA 4.0

The National Archaeological Museum of Mantua is an archaeological museum located in Mantua, Italy. It is located at the Palazzo Ducale and holds objects discovered from excavations in the surrounding territory. The museum is operated by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities of Italy.

Wikipedia: National Archaeological Museum of Mantua (EN), Website

87 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Casa di Rigoletto

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Casa di Rigoletto

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.

Wikipedia: Rigoletto (EN)

88 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Duomo

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Mantua Cathedral in Mantua, Lombardy, northern Italy, is a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint Peter. It is the seat of the Bishop of Mantua.

Wikipedia: Mantua Cathedral (EN)

471 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 17: Piazza Virgiliana

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Piazza Virgiliana

The Piazza Virgiliana is an oblong shaped park in the center of Mantua, region of Lombardy Italy. It spans from a circumvailling Piazza Virgilliana street, fed from Piazza dei Filipinni by Via Virgilio, and stretching northwest towards Lago di Mezzo, from which it is separated by a wall and a span of the busy SS62 highway. The park has a number of tree-lined trails, and commemorative statues, most prominent of which is a monument to Virgil with flanking fountains.

Wikipedia: Piazza Virgiliana, Mantua (EN)

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