Description
Piazza Castello is the square that opens up inside the Ducal Palace of Mantua, the Gonzaga palace: a space enclosed by porticoes, next to the Castle of San Giorgio, once called the Prato di Castello.
It was designed in the 16th century by Giovan Battista Bertani, a pupil of Giulio Romano, who surrounded it on three sides with frescoed round-arched porticoes. You reach it from Piazza Sordello through a monumental entrance painted by Antonio Maria Viani.
From here you go on to the Castle of San Giorgio, home of Andrea Mantegna's Bridal Chamber, and to the little square in front of the Palatine Basilica of Santa Barbara, also by Bertani. Where the court theater stood, destroyed several times, is now the National Archaeological Museum. The square also hosts events of the Festivaletteratura.
It was designed in the 16th century by Giovan Battista Bertani, a pupil of Giulio Romano, who surrounded it on three sides with frescoed round-arched porticoes. You reach it from Piazza Sordello through a monumental entrance painted by Antonio Maria Viani.
From here you go on to the Castle of San Giorgio, home of Andrea Mantegna's Bridal Chamber, and to the little square in front of the Palatine Basilica of Santa Barbara, also by Bertani. Where the court theater stood, destroyed several times, is now the National Archaeological Museum. The square also hosts events of the Festivaletteratura.