A small lowland town with a rugby club among Italy's best: Viadana is the plain's most likeable sporting anomaly, where the oval ball has been provincial religion since the 1970s and the yellow-and-black club has brought near-titles and full internationals to the banks of the Po. The pitch here counts as much as the piazza.
The Mantuan municipality of 19,157 lives off the great river — floodplains, poplar groves, the river port — and generous land: this is PGI Mantuan melon country, the sweet of summer on Po valley tables. The Romans' ancient Vitaliana is today the industrious capital of the Casalasco-Viadanese district, halfway between Parma and Mantua.
Risotto alla Milanese · Sbrisolona
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Next up: Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, patron of the town of the ancient synagogue, Friday 10 September
Nearest airport: Parma, 21 km away
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📅 Every year, on 10 September
Viadana celebrates Saint Nicholas of Tolentino on 10 September; the town also holds a former synagogue, testimony to its historic Jewish community, and the Basilica of Saints Stephen and Anne.
White and yellow flour, almonds, butter and sugar, broken by hand: sbrisolona is Mantova's cake, already served at the Gonzaga court.
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Outside Viadana, but an easy day trip away.
