Museums in Mantua. You can’t visit Mantua without entering the museums containing the remnants of its long history made up of interesting events.
I wrote a post with all the useful information to visit Mantua where I suggest that you should buy the MantovaCard, which represents the pass key to the city.
Here are the main monuments you can visit and which describe themselves the history of Mantua.
Visit Mantua. After my journey to Mantua it’s time for me to explain how you can arrange your own cultural visit to Mantua, from a practical point of view.
How to move and visit Mantua in a few simple steps
The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum. Some time ago I was in Milan, walking along via Montenapoleone at a fast pace, in order to reach the subway stop, because I had an appointment. I had walked along this street dozens of times, but on that occasion I noticed a sign inviting me to turn into via Gesù to reach the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum.
The name of the museum wasn’t new to me, but I only remembered that I had seen a leaflet, but I didn’t know that the museum was located in the heart of the city.
After my appointment, I came back and, as I had enough time, I visited the museum, and I fell in love with it.
The hills of Bologna. When I think about Bologna and its landscape, a song by Lunapop always comes to my mind “Ma quanto è bello andare in giro per i colli bolognesi…” (“How nice it is driving around for the hills of Bologna…”).
Imagining Cesare Cremonini, the leader of the group, who drives his Vespa Special around the hills of Bologna with wings underneath his feet, has always made me think that these places are marvellous.
I don’t know Bologna well, I must confess. I go there at least twice a year, but I preserve a wonderful memory of the hills of Bologna and of a graduation party.
Canova in Venice. One of the greatest novelties of the new tour of the exhibition at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, which I have recently described in a special post dedicated to the new rooms set in the Palladian Wing, is the exhibition of the works by Antonio Canova in Venice.
These works were often chosen and sent to Venice by the sculptor himself with the aim of being the didactic instrument for the students at the Accademia di Belle Arti, to which Canova would be attached for all his life.
These works are very important because they allow us to understand the artistic process of Antonio Canova, from drawings to models and to completed works.
