Museo Internazionale della Croce Rossa
Castiglione delle Stiviere
(15 Km)
The International Museum of the Red Cross is located in the 18th century patrician mansion of Palazzo Longhi. The museum site was inaugurated in 1959 in view of the centenary of the birth of the Red Cross conceived by Henry Dunant. The Museum was founded with the intent to document the birth and development of the International Red Cross through temporary exhibitions by foreign and Italian Red Cross Societies.
Museo Storico Aloisiano
Castiglione delle Stiviere
(16 Km)
The Aloisian Historical Museum was built in 1608 by the grandchildren of San Luigi, Cinzia, Olimpia and Gridonia Gonzaga. It exhibits objects that kept the young nobles who of the College of Virgins. In addition, there are also some paintings with portraits of San Luigi and paintings with sacred themes by great artists. The museum has been open to the public since 1969.
Museo delle Cere della Postumia
Gazoldo Degli Ippoliti
(7 Km)
The Postojna Wax Museum is located in the beautiful Palazzo Ippoliti also known as Palazzo Castello. Part of this building is private, another is owned by the Municipality. The latter is used to present the Waxes. In the museum it is possible to observe about eighty life-size wax statues, presented in particular sets and with as many sound and light effects. In all, there are eight rooms.
Civica Raccolta d'Arte
Medole
(8 Km)
The Civic Art Collection was founded during the seventies to collect the works of local artists, with particular attention to the artists who worked in Clarism. The museum site also hosts temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.
Museo Civico "G. Bellini"
Asola
(13 Km)
The G. Bellini Civic Museum has as its founder Goffredo Bellini, a well-known collector of the 1920s. The building is divided into two sections, within which we find finds from different historical eras and also finds found from prehistory and works of great value that belong to the years' 400, '700 and '800.
Torre di Marmirolo
Marmirolo
(15 Km)
Initially, the Tower of Marmirolo was part of an ancient castle. In July 1700 the tower collapsed, but not much time passed and was replaced by the citizens by another tower. In the 50s of the last century, a new bell was added to the structure by the Municipal Administration. The tower took its present appearance after some restorations carried out in the years 1872-1873 and 1995.
Castello Mastio
Pozzolengo
(16 Km)
The Mastio Castle of Pozzolengo was built in the twelfth century. Its purpose was to defend the inhabitants from the invasions of the Magiari. During the 15th and 16th centuries, several restorations were made at the castle. In fact, this was greatly expanded. The building has a trapezoidal structure, with numerous cylindrical towers, one of which has been transformed into a bell tower.
Ponte Visconteo
Valeggio sul Mincio
(16 Km)
The Visconti Bridge of Valeggio sul Mincio was built in 1393 for the desire of the Duke of Milan: Gian Galeazzo Visconti. In the 20th century the bridge was replaced with another iron. It is 650 meters long and 8 meters high above the river level.
Museo Archeologico dell'Alto Mantovano - Cavriana
Cavriana
(12 Km)
The Museum preserves and enhances through materials, documentation and reconstructive plastics what is found in the pile-dwelling sites of Bande di Cavriana and Castellaro Lagusello, recently included in the heritage UNESCO world
Palazzo Gelmetti
Pozzolengo
(16 Km)
Headquarters of the Town Hall since the beginning of the 20th century, it was built in 1800.It was the residence of the noble Gelmetti family; it was entrusted to the Municipality in 1883, which bought it in 1888. Inside there are richly frescoed rooms.
Chiesa di S. Lorenzo
Pozzolengo
(16 Km)
Parish church of 1510 subject to various extensions and renovations in the '700. It has a neoclassical facade with a large central window and an impressive bronze door, the work of the sculptor Carnessali. It is worth noting inside the seventeenth-century organ and the canvases by Brusasorci and Andrea Celesti.
Castello
Pozzolengo
(16 Km)
The Castle of Pozzolengo was built approximately in the 9th — 10th century, rebuilt in the 13th century and renovated in the 16th century; it has a trapezoidal plan and rises on Mount Fluno. In the curtain of the walls with Guelph battlements, cylindrical towers are inserted and inside the Castle you can admire the remains of the Church of San Lorenzo martyr.
Borghetto sul Mincio
Valeggio sul Mincio
(16 Km)
Borghetto is a fraction of the municipality of Valeggio sul Mincio and is included in the list of “The Most Beautiful Villages in Italy”. This charming village is located at the foot of the Visconti Bridge and has characteristic buildings with water mills. Not to be missed is also the parish church dedicated to St. Mark the Evangelist, flanked by the bell tower from the Scaligera era that contains a bell dating back to the year 1381.