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plan 1 - for schools ![]() ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY WHILE SAILING Mantua seen from the water MANTUA > MINCIO'S PARK > MANTUA Water, land, history, art, legends: this is Mantua unveiled while sailing the lakes encompassing the town. In the Lago di Mezzo, there stands the stylish design of the Burgo paper-mill (1960) by Pier Luigi Nervi, the “poet of the reinforced concrete”; the memorial park of Andreas Hofer, the hero of the Tyrolese resistance against Napoleon; the XVI century Porta Giulia and the “Vasaron”, the waterfall from the Lago Superiore. The Court of the Gonzaga, a touching sight, like Venice, emerges from the waters with the castle, the towers, the palaces and the basilicas. Beyond the Chasseloup-Masetti dam, the home village of Publius Virgil Marone, Andes, indulges among water lilies. Then, down in the valley, the landscape changes and nature triumphs: wide, fl oating spreads of Nelumbium, the lotus fl owers and of Trapa Natans, the water chestnut which is boiled and eaten in Autumn. Herons fl y high up into the sky with night-herons, kingfi shers and stilt-birds. Never-ending trailings of poplar and willow trees and fl uvial fl ora, in the splendours of blossoming or in the lush of the sedge-grass and the marshy reeds. This and much more, sailing with us for an hour or an hour and a half. ![]() ![]() We reccomand this boarding times: 09,30am - 11,00am - 12,30pm - 2,00pm - 3,30pm - 5,00pm - 6,30pm Lasting: 1h or 1h 30min. ![]() <- tours' list |
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