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Cremona and Sabbioneta: violins and the ideal city

The Torrazzo, the Cathedral and the Violin Museum in Cremona in the morning, the Gonzaga ideal city of Sabbioneta in the afternoon.

Two cities on the Po, side by side. In the morning Cremona, the capital of the violin: Amati, Guarneri and Antonio Stradivari worked here, and its violin-making tradition has been UNESCO Intangible Heritage since 2012. You'll see the square with the Torrazzo and the Cathedral, and the Violin Museum. After lunch Sabbioneta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with Mantua since 2008: a small city built from scratch in the sixteenth century by Vespasiano Gonzaga, as the perfect Renaissance city.

Il Torrazzo e il Duomo di Cremona
Foto: sedoglia, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
  • Varighet fra Lugo10 h 25 Hel dag
  • Kjøring5 h 20 · 423 km tur-retur
  • Besøk og stopp4 h 05
  • Når draAll year round (the Violin Museum is closed on Mondays)

Programmet fra Lugo

  1. Avreise fra Lugo mot Cremona2 h 20 kjøring, 212 km
  2. Cremona2 h 15 besøk: The Violin Museum, Piazza del Comune, the Torrazzo and the Cathedral
  3. Lunsj i Cremona1 h 00 besøk: in the centre: marubini in broth, boiled meat with Cremona mustard, torrone to finish.
  4. Kjør videre til Sabbioneta50 min kjøring, 48 km
  5. Sabbioneta1 h 50 besøk: The Teatro all'Antica and the Palazzo Giardino, The Palazzo Ducale and the church of the Incoronata
  6. Kjør tilbake til Lugo2 h 10 kjøring, 162 km
  7. Tilbake i Lugo

Tidene er veiledende: kjøretider er beregnet uten trafikk, deretter kommer besøkene og ti minutter ved hvert stopp for parkering. Om sommeren mot kysten og i rushtiden bør du ha ekstra tid.

Hva du vil se

1Cremona

The Violin Museum 60 min

It tells the story of five centuries of Cremona violin-making, from the first violins by Andrea Amati in the sixteenth century to the masterpieces of Antonio Stradivari, who died in 1737, and Guarneri del Gesù. You'll see the instruments, tools and drawings from Stradivari's workshop. On certain days, in the auditorium, a musician plays one of the historic instruments in the collection, so you can hear their voice.

Admission charge; closed on Mondays. The performances with historic instruments are on certain days: check the calendar.

Piazza del Comune, the Torrazzo and the Cathedral 50 min

The square is one of the finest in Italy. The Torrazzo, the Cathedral's bell tower, is 112 metres high and one of the tallest brick towers in Europe; halfway up there's a large sixteenth-century astronomical clock, and from the top you can see the whole Po plain. The Romanesque Cathedral has a white marble façade and is entirely frescoed inside, with the stories of Christ by Pordenone. Next to it is the octagonal twelfth-century Baptistery.

The Cathedral is free; climbing the Torrazzo (about 500 steps) and the Baptistery have admission charges.

2Sabbioneta

The Teatro all'Antica and the Palazzo Giardino 50 min

Vespasiano Gonzaga, soldier and man of culture, built Sabbioneta in the second half of the sixteenth century within star-shaped walls. The Teatro all'Antica, by Vincenzo Scamozzi, was completed in 1590 and is one of the first theatres in Europe built as a freestanding building. The Palazzo Giardino was the duke's private residence, with frescoed rooms and the Galleria degli Antichi, a very long corridor where he kept his Roman statues.

A single ticket, from the tourist office, opens the city's monuments at fixed times.

The Palazzo Ducale and the church of the Incoronata 30 min

In Piazza Ducale there's the government palace, with carved wooden ceilings and equestrian statues of the Gonzaga. Not far away is the octagonal church of the Incoronata, where Vespasiano is buried beneath a bronze monument. Walking around you understand the design: straight streets, squares and palaces conceived together, as in a drawing.

Included in the single ticket.

Tips

  • On Mondays the Violin Museum is closed: better choose another trip that day.
  • In Cremona there are many violin-makers' workshops at work: some can be visited by appointment.
  • In mid-November Cremona holds the Torrone Festival, with the centre full of stalls.

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