Gualtieri
Member of I Borghi più belli d'Italia
For a few decades around 1600 the Bentivoglio marquises made this village by the Po a small capital, and their architect Giovan Battista Aleotti gave it Piazza Bentivoglio, a square of about 100 metres a side framed by arcades. The river has flooded it many times, in 1951 reaching the keystones of those arches. The naïve painter Antonio Ligabue lived here, and the palace keeps a museum devoted to him.
Highlights
- Piazza Bentivoglio, Aleotti's arcaded Renaissance square
- Palazzo Bentivoglio and the 17th-century frescoes of the Sala dei Giganti
- The Antonio Ligabue museum and study centre
- Umberto Tirelli's collection, with works by De Chirico, Guttuso and Casorati
- Cycle path along the Po floodplain to Boretto and Guastalla
Text adapted from Wikipedia (Gualtieri (IT), Gualtieri (EN)), Wikivoyage (Gualtieri). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Population: 6,241
Things to see
Events through the year
- Feast of Our Lady of the Snows
Dates follow the traditional patterns in our sources: check locally before you travel.
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Local food & wine
- Cappelletti in brodoBread and pastaMeat-filled pasta served in broth
- Tortelli di zuccaBread and pastaPasta filled with pumpkin
- FogarinaWineAncient grape reappraised in 2007, for rosé, passito and grappa
- Santa Vittoria watermelonLocal produce
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Where to sleep
3 places to stay within 3 km
- Hotels 1
- B&Bs and guest houses 1
- Campsites 1
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Thermal baths nearby
- Thermal spa: Island spa · ~36 min by car
- Thermal spa: Terme Borrini (IT) · ~42 min by car
- Thermal spa: Terme di Monticelli · ~42 min by car
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Nearby member villages
- Pomponesco · 4.4 km
- Sabbioneta · 16 km
- San Benedetto Po · 27 km
- Montechiarugolo · 28 km
- Grazie · 29 km