Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Brescia, Italy
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Experience Brescia in Italy in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in BresciaIndividual Sights in BresciaSight 1: Chiesa di Santa Maria in Silva
The church of Santa Maria in Silva is a church in Brescia, Italy, located on the side of Via Corsica, in the last stretch before Piazza della Repubblica. The building, built to a design by the architect Rodolfo Vantini between 1853 and 1857, replaced the ancient church on the other side of the road, which was demolished. The church, in addition to being important in itself as a work by Vantini, contains some valuable paintings, including a fresco by Angelo Inganni, a canvas by Lattanzio Gambara and one by an anonymous artist of the sixteenth century.
Sight 2: Chiesa dei Santi Nazaro e Celso
The church of Santi Nazaro e Celso is located on Corso Giacomo Matteotti, at the intersection with via Fratelli Bronzetti, in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. The church contains the Averoldi Polyptych (1522), a masterwork of Titian.
Sight 3: Chiesa di Sant'Orsola
The church of Sant'Orsola is a church in Brescia, Italy, located along Via Moretto, between the church of Santa Croce and the intersection with Via Gramsci. Built at the beginning of the seventeenth century by the Ursulines with the aim of expanding their religious community in the city, after the suppression of 1797 it was recovered by the friars of the Fatebenefratelli who established a large hospital in the adjoining convent, which is still active today. The church is now the chapel of the health center, but the daily evening mass is always open to the public.
Sight 4: Chiesa di Santa Maria al Mercato del Lino
Madonna del Lino or Santa Maria del Mercato del Lino is a Roman Catholic church located on the Southwest corner of Piazza Mercato in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 5: Mostasù dèle Cosére
The mostasù dèle Cosére, literally "big face of the Cossere" in Brescian dialect, is an ancient relief located in the historic center of Brescia, walled on the corner of Corso Goffredo Mameli and the Cossere district, from which it takes its name.
Sight 6: Chiesa Convento di San Giuseppe
San Giuseppe is a complex of religious buildings in central Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy. It includes a church and a monastery.
Sight 7: Chiesa di San Giorgio
San Giorgio is a Roman Catholic church located on the Piazza of the same name, just outside Porta Bruciata, in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 8: Chiesa di Santa Rita
The church of San Faustino in Riposo or church of Santa Rita is a church in Brescia, Italy, located in Via Musei, north of Piazza della Loggia, next to Porta Bruciata.
Sight 9: Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Consolazioni
The church of Santa Maria delle Consolazioni, formerly the church of San Faustino in Castro, is a church in Brescia, Italy, located in the Piazzetta delle Consolazioni along Contrada Sant'Urbano, on the climb to the Castle of Brescia, a short distance from Piazzetta Tito Speri.
Sight 10: Monumento ai caduti delle Dieci giornate di Brescia.
The Monument to Bella Italia or Bell'Italia, officially the Monument to the Fallen of the Ten Days of Brescia, is a marble monument located in the north-east branch of Piazza della Loggia in Brescia.
Sight 11: Chiesa di Sant'Agata
Sant'Agata is a 15th-century, Roman Catholic church located on Corsetto Sant'Agata at Piazza della Vittoria in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 12: Teatro Grande
The Teatro Grande is the main performance venue for the city of Brescia, Italy. The venue hosts performances of operas, musicals, plays, concerts, ballet, modern dance, and other various entertainments.
Sight 13: Teatro Sociale
The Teatro Sociale is a theater in Brescia, Italy, second in size and capacity to the Teatro Grande, located in Via Felice Cavallotti, east of Piazza Bruno Boni. Founded in 1851 as the Guillaume theater, it has been rebuilt twice and the current structure, in full Art Nouveau style, dates back to 1905. Long abandoned in the second half of the twentieth century, it was recovered at the end of the century and reopened to the public in 2000.
Sight 14: Chiesa di San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located on via Moretto, just north of Camera di Commercio di Brescia, and near Piazza Bruno Boni, in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 15: Chiesa di Sant'Alessandro
Sant'Alessandro is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic parish church located on Via Moretto, 73/A in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 16: Chiesa di Sant'Angela Merici
Sant'Angela Merici is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church located on Via Francesco Crispi, in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 17: Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo
The Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo is a public art museum in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 18: Chiesa di San Luca
The church of San Luca is a church in Brescia, Italy, located along Via San Martino della Battaglia, just south of the intersection with Corso Zanardelli. Founded in the thirteenth century, it underwent the first renovations in the fifteenth century and a more radical one in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century the interiors were also reversed for the opening of the new entrance on Via San Martino della Battaglia. It contains discreet pictorial and sculptural works of art. Blessed Giuseppe Tovini and the pedagogist Vittorino Chizzolini, for whom the process of canonization is underway, are buried in the church.
Sight 19: Concattedrale invernale di Santa Maria Assunta
The Duomo Vecchio or Old Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Brescia, Italy; the rustic circular Romanesque co-cathedral stands next to the Duomo Nuovo of Brescia. It is officially known as the Winter Co-Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, while the adjacent main cathedral is known as the Summer Cathedral.
Sight 20: Cattedrale estiva di Santa Maria Assunta
The Duomo Nuovo, or more correctly the summer cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, is the main church of Brescia, the mother church of the diocese of the same name and an Italian national monument. It is located in Piazza Paolo VI, also known as Piazza del Duomo, and is part of the context of two cathedrals adjacent to each other, namely the old cathedral. The place of worship was erected between 1604 and 1825 on the area where the early Christian basilica of San Pietro de Dom stood, dating back to the V-VI century. In addition, it is the seat of a parish that is part of the pastoral area of Brescia Centro.
Sight 21: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Carità
Santa Maria della Carità or just known as the Carità, or the church of the Buon Pastore, is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on Via dei Musei corner via Rosa in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 22: Scavi archeologici di palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco Novarino
The archaeological excavations of Palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco Novarino in Brescia were opened in 1998 in the basement of the building, after eight years of work that involved the varied stratigraphy that affects the area below the building. The excavations have brought to light testimonies and finds ranging from prehistory to the Middle Ages, confirming the three-thousand-year history of Piazza del Foro and this area of the city of Brescia.
Wikipedia: Scavi archeologici di palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco Novarino (IT)
Sight 23: Teatro Romano
The Roman theater of ancient Brixia is a building located in the modern city of Brescia, near the Capitoline temple and the Forum square.
Sight 24: Tempio Capitolino
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The Capitolium of Brixia or the Temple of the Capitoline Triad in Brescia was the main temple in the center of the Roman town of Brixia (Brescia), in Northern Italy, in the modern region of Lombardy. It is represented at present by fragmentary ruins, but is part of an archeological site, including a Roman theater and museum in central Brescia. It forms part of the Longobards in Italy: Places of Power UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2011.
Sight 25: Chiesa di San Zeno al Foro
San Zeno al Foro is a church in center of the city of Brescia, situated in Piazza del Foro on the Via dei Musei, a few yards from the ruins of the Roman Capitoline temple in the city.
Sight 26: Foro Romano
The Roman Forum of Brescia was the ancient main square of the city center of Brixia starting from the first century BC and later completed by Vespasian. Much of the original square is now traced from Piazza del Foro, while the remains of most of the buildings that overlooked it have been brought to light outside or in the basement of the buildings that currently surround the square. This monumental archaeological complex preserves the major public buildings of the Roman age in northern Italy and for this reason it has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, part of the serial site "Lombards in Italy: the places of power".
Sight 27: San Marco Evangelista
San Marco Evangelista is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church located at the end of via Laura Cereto in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 28: Chiesa di San Clemente
The church of San Clemente is an ancient Roman Catholic church located near the Piazza del Foro, in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Sight 29: Memoriale a Niccolò Tartaglia
Nicolo, known as Tartaglia, was an Italian mathematician, engineer, a surveyor and a bookkeeper from the then Republic of Venice. He published many books, including the first Italian translations of Archimedes and Euclid, and an acclaimed compilation of mathematics. Tartaglia was the first to apply mathematics to the investigation of the paths of cannonballs, known as ballistics, in his Nova Scientia ; his work was later partially validated and partially superseded by Galileo's studies on falling bodies. He also published a treatise on retrieving sunken ships.
Sight 30: Chiesa di Santa Maria in Calchera
The church of Santa Maria in Calchera is a Catholic place of worship in Brescia, located in the south-west corner of the square of the same name, along Via Trieste, a short distance from Piazzale Arnaldo. Of very ancient origin, it was radically restored from the sixteenth century onwards, until the eighteenth century.
Sight 31: Museo di Santa Giulia
The Museum of Santa Giulia is the main museum in Brescia, located in Via dei Musei 81/b, the ancient decumanus maximus of Roman Brixia. It is housed inside the monastery of Santa Giulia, built by King Desiderius in the Lombard era and variously expanded and modified in more than a thousand years of history.
Sight 32: Chiesa di San Salvatore
San Salvatore is a former monastery in Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy, now turned into a museum. The monastic complex is famous for the diversity of its architecture which includes Roman remains and significant pre-Romanesque, Romanesque and Renaissance buildings.
Sight 33: Chiesa di San Pietro in Oliveto
San Pietro in Oliveto is a Roman Catholic church located at the end of via del Castello in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
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