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Mantua is noted for its significant role in the history of opera; the city is also known for its architectural treasures and artifacts, elegant palaces, and the medieval and Renaissance cityscape. It is the city where the composer Monteverdi premiered his 1607 opera L'Orfeo and to where Romeo was banished in Shakespeare's 1597 play Romeo and ...
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Map showing the 70 comuni of the province. The city of Mantua is shown in red. The Province of Mantua is an administrative body of intermediate level between a municipality and Lombardy region. The three main functions devolved to the Province of Mantua are: local planning and zoning; provision of local police and fire services;
Upper Mantua (Italian: Alto Mantovano/Upper Mantuan dialect: Alt Mantuà) [1] is a geographical area located northwest of the city of Mantua in the province of the same name and bordering the provinces of Brescia and Verona, bordered to the north by the morainic hills of Lake Garda, to the east by the province of Verona, to the northwest by the province of Brescia, and to the south by the ...
Gonzaga (Upper Mantuan: Gunsàga) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Mantua in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 140 kilometres (87 mi) southeast of Milan and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Mantua.
From 970 to 1115, the Counts of Mantua were members of the House of Canossa. During its time as free commune and signoria ("lordship"), the Lords of Mantua were exponents of the Bonacolsi and Gonzaga families. From 1328, Mantua was informally led by Gonzagas until 1433, when Gianfrancesco Gonzaga assumed the noble title of Marquess of Mantua.
South side. The cathedral is an overlay of three styles: the late Baroque facade, the Gothic left flank, and the Romanesque bell tower. On the initiative of Bishop Antonio Guidi of Bagno, the present facade, completely made of Carrara marble, was built between 1756 and 1761 to the design of the Roman Nicolò Baschiera, an engineer of the Austrian army.