The name comes from volvita, a turn, and follows the line of the morainic hills the town spreads over, in a border strip where three provinces meet. Here, on 15 October 1080, the militias of the bishop-counts siding with Henry IV beat the troops defending Pope Gregory VII under Matilda of Canossa: the countess's first serious military defeat.
Palazzo Gonzaga-Guerrieri, today the town hall, was built in the mid-fifteenth century by Ludovico III Gonzaga and Barbara of Brandenburg as a country villa, set against a tower and a stretch of the town walls; its Italian garden on four levels uses stone columns salvaged from monasteries suppressed under Napoleon. From here, on 11 April 1848, Charles Albert, whose headquarters were in the house, ordered Sardinian warships and merchant vessels to fly the tricolour.
Risotto alla Milanese · Sbrisolona
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Next up: Saint Mary Magdalene, patron of the village feast revived in 2006, Thursday 22 July
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📅 Every year, on 22 July; since 2006 the small village feast has been revived
Volta Mantovana celebrates Saint Mary Magdalene on 22 July, in the church dedicated to her. Since 2006, thanks to the efforts of some residents, the small village feast has been revived, with records of it dating back to the years after the Second World War.
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 Volta Mantovana, but an easy day trip away.
