What to do near Cappella de' Picenardi, CR

The Rope Museum of Castelponzone

A small museum celebrating the ancient tradition of hemp rope spinning, an important part of Casale's history and cultural heritage.

Villa Medici del Vascello

A villa, a garden, a lady living there, and immediately you are off on a Renaissance journey. If then the Dame is the one with the ermine, Cecilia Gallerani, the charm is irresistible!

Appointment with Stradivarius

In Cremona, to the Violin Museum to hear the instruments of the city's unsurpassed violin makers

Descent down the Po River - Day 1

Here we go!

Three men in a boat

Prologue: he who begins well, is already half done

The Culatello Museum

A day on the Po: first a visit that ends at the tavern, then on the embankment on foot or by bicycle

Busseto, small capital of Terre Verdiane

A city by imperial decree, it has fame for Giuseppe Verdi, but also for great works of charcuterie art

The Old-Fashioned Theater of Sabbioneta

Worthy rival of Palladio's Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza

The Ducal Palace of Sabbioneta

Sumptuous palace of representation, emblem of ducal power

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.

Parmesan Cheese Museum

The appropriate place to follow Boccaccio into the land of Bengodi