What to do near Boretto, RE

Descent down the Po River - Day 2

The harbor, the wildlife, and the unexpected campsite

The Brescello Film Festival and the "Ruseda"

A review combining cinema, tastes and legend

Brescello and the Peppone and Don Camillo Museum

On the indelible traces of a story that makes us children again

Lost Plants and Animals in Guastalla

Biodiversity exhibition in the Emilian village on the banks of the Po River

Church of St. Anthony Abbot, Bibbiena's masterpiece

Extraordinary Baroque church with double domes. The second, pierced, hints at the angels on blue sky of the first, lit by hidden windows. Ė like peeking into heaven.

The red walls of Sabbioneta

The city is surrounded by impressive brick walls dating back to the founding in the 1500s; they are interspersed with six mighty bastions, with two openings, Imperial Gate and Victory Gate.

The Garden Palace of Sabbioneta

The Villa di delizia of Vespasiano Gonzaga is a hymn to classical antiquity.

Sabbioneta, the ideal city

Jewel of the Renaissance, an outstanding urban planning and artistic testimony to the Italian 500s

The Gallery of the Ancients of Sabbioneta

Built by Duke Vespasian to house his art collection, it is a very long gallery, now empty but offering an extraordinary perspective, concluded by a tromp l'oeil of faux architecture.

The Ducal Palace of Sabbioneta

Sumptuous palace of representation, emblem of ducal power

The Old-Fashioned Theater of Sabbioneta

Worthy rival of Palladio's Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza