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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 ...
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;
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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 ...
The following is a list of the 66 municipalities of the province of Mantua, Lombardy, Italy. [1] List. ISTAT Code Comune Population (2009) 020001: ...
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.
The towns Mantua and Sabbioneta are also listed as a combined World Heritage site relating to this period, here focussing more on town-planning aspects of the time than on architectural detail. While Mantua was rebuilt in the 15th and 16th centuries, according to Renaissance principles, Sabbioneta was planned as a new town in the 16th century ...
Satellite image of Europe by night 1916 physical map of Europe Topography of Europe. Some geographical texts refer to a Eurasian continent given that Europe is not surrounded by sea and its southeastern border has always been variously defined for centuries. In terms of shape, Europe is a collection of connected peninsulas and nearby