Mantova - tourist informations about Mantova and its district

"... questa è una bellissima città e degna c'un si mova mille miglia per vederla". With this words Torquato Tasso persuades to make us visit to the splendid town situated in the eastern part of the lombard plain, on the right shore of Mincio. The ideal seasons to visit Mantova are the spring and the autumn not very late, otherwise there is the risk to find mist, typical of the Po Plain. Mantova, is a town from the neoclassical appearance in which pick some monuments of the medieval age and of the renaissance; remember the Castle of San Giorgio of 1300, Palace of Te of XVI century and the Palace of the Reason of XIII century with medieval frescos. During the month of september is possible to visit the Show of the Market of Book and of the Ancient Printing and the Mycological Provincial Show to october. Numerous tourists to august run up to Bridges on Mincio to assist to the Living Entry of Setbacks. The mantovana cusine resents of the geographical position and is presented like a mixed of lombard and emiliano. Its speciality are the tortelli to base of pumpkin, the rice to the mantovana, the pasta with beans ans sausages. Like sweets are to taste the cakes daisy and the "sbrisolona" while like DOC wine find the Lambrusco mantovano and the Colli Morenici of Garda.