Top Mantua Arts & Design

Purchase your tickets in advance for the Mantua Ducal Palace, which saves valuable vacation time waiting in line. With ticket in hand, you can breeze past the line to buy entry and get to exploring. Move at your own pace and learn about the complex of buildings, featuring 500 rooms, built from the 14th to the 17th centuries.

Being in Mantua means to be in a world apart. This city, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2008, was designed by the famous noble family of Gonzaga together with some of the greatest artists at that time. In fact, history and culture play a very important role in everyday life in Mantua. Take part in this 2-hour walking tour and explore the historical centre of the city. Your tour starts from the courtyards of Palazzo Ducale and you will pass through St. Giorgio Castle as well as Casa del Rigoletto. Then, you will stroll throughout the ancient and small streets and admire the most important and symbolic places of this city, such as Piazza Erbe with its Clock Tower. The walking tour will end in front of Basilica of Sant’Andrea made by Leon Battista Alberti. Join this tour and you will find out not only the most important places but also unknown spots full of intrigues and secrets.

You will discover the Unesco city of Mantua from the gardens of the ducal residence of the Gonzaga lords, the magnificent Ducal Palace and the cathedral overlooking the cobbled Piazza Sordello Up to the fabulous lake and Palazzo Te

Journey to discover the "Villa degli Ozi", wanted by Federico II as a place of relaxation, quiet, fun and ... much more!