Palazzo Gonzaga and Italian garden

Palazzo Gonzaga was built by the Marquis of Mantua, Ludovico Gonzaga, and his wife Barbara of Brandenburg as a country villa in the mid-16C. It is now the town hall and features an asymmetrical façade, with a stone portal and two rows of windows. Above the roof rise three highly original chimneystacks.

The interiors are superbly crafted and with 16C ornaments. Of particular interest are the frescoes on the vaulted ceiling of the apse of the old oratory, depicting the Nativity of Mary and attributed to Teodoro Ghisi, a painter from the circle of Giulio Romano.