Honor to Mantua for the Literature Festival.

The city is a cultural and tourist attraction, renowned nationally and internationally, for its remarkable monumental beauties, the organization of significant events, as well as for its famous traditional gastronomic products of Lombardy.
 

The history of Mantova probably has Etruscan origins. A rich emporium of artifacts has been found near the city. The city then came under the rule of the Gauls and after the victory of Casteggio, under Roman domination. The poet Virgil, proud of his Mantuan origins, writes, in a mythological key, that the foundation of the city occurred, according to some legends, thanks to Bianore, son of the Tiber, and the nymph Mantua, or, according to other sources, due to Aucno, son of Mantua and Etruscan hero, who gave the city his mother's name. 
 

From the 3rd to the 8th century, Mantova was also subjected to barbarian invasions until it was conquered by the Lombards and later entered the territories of Matilda of Canossa. After the death of the Great Countess in 1115, it became a free commune, but the numerous struggles between families weakened the city. It was then governed by the Bonacolsi, who were the first lords of Mantova, later supplanted in 1328 by the Gonzaga. Thus began the long dynasty of these lords who became, thanks to imperial recognition, first marquises and then dukes. 
 

Mantova under the Gonzaga became a cultural center, first with Ludovico II, who commissioned monuments from the quintessential Renaissance man: Leon Battista Alberti (a man of great erudition as well as an architect), and then with Isabella d’Este, who became a patron of the great personalities of Andrea Mantegna (painter - engraver) and Giulio Romano (painter - architect). 
 

A great history and a long culinary tradition, whose typical products can be purchased directly and conveniently from our site.