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Cremona ( / krɪˈmoʊnə /, [3] [4] also UK: / krɛˈ -/; [5] Italian: [kreˈmoːna]; Cremunés: Cremùna; Emilian: Carmona) is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the Pianura Padana ( Po Valley ). It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local ...
Apr 4, 2024 · Cremona, city, Lombardia (Lombardy) regione (region), northern Italy, on the north bank of the Po River southeast of Milan. It was founded by the Romans in 218 bc on the site of an earlier Gallic village of the Cenomani. Virgil, the Roman poet, went to school there. With the decline of the Roman
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Jun 26, 2019 · Cremona, Italy, Travel and Tourist Guide. Cremona is a city in northern Italy famous for its production of high-quality violins. Cremona has a picturesque historic center with most sights clustered around the main square, Piazza del Comune. The city is well worth a visit and can easily be seen as a day trip from Milan but is also a fine place ...
May 4, 2018 · 1 1. An extraordinary violin-making tradition. 2 2. The “Sistine Chapel of the north”. 3 3. Elegant palaces and ancient churches. 4 4. A fantastic culinary experience. If you’re looking for a side trip from Milan, Cremona offers so many interesting things to see and do for a lovely day trip away from big tourist crowds.
- Museo del Violino. Cremona’s history echoes to sound of violins and violin-making, meaning a visit to this relatively new, state-of-the-art museum is practically obligatory…
- Cattedrale di Cremona. Welcome to an ecclesial colossus. Cremona’s cathedral started out as a Romanesque basilica, but the simplicity of that style later gave way to an…
- Torrazzo. Cremona's 111m-tall torrazzo (bell tower, although 'torrazzo' translates literally as ‘great, fat tower’) is the third tallest brick bell tower in the…
- Museo Civico Ala Ponzone. Set in the spacious halls of the Palazzo Affaitati, Cremona's finest art gallery houses an exquisite collection of paintings dating from the 15th to the…
Sep 3, 2015 · Sept. 3, 2015. Cremona is a small, pretty, well-kept, bourgeois, mercantile city in the fertile Po Valley of Italy. There is no local wine region. There is no city university. There are no ...
The ancient tradition of violin making in Cremona started when in 1566 the luthier Andrea Amati invented the prototype of the modern violin starting from the Medieval fiddle. It was then that his grandson Nicolò, together with his pupils Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri, made the best violins ever seen.
