Gonzaga hunting-lodge in Bosco della Fontana

House built in the late 1500's, has some ideas in the architectural profile Giulio Romano and Bavaria. The villa is located in the beautiful green Bosco Fontana, a former hunting reserve of the lords of the city located in the municipality of Marmirolo, a stone's throw from the city, Bosco Fontana is spread over an area of 233 hectares, and is what remains of the ancient forests plan sphere that once covered the entire Po Valley.

A series of straight paths that, crossing repeatedly, forming circular clearings, make it easier and more inviting `s advancing in dense and tangled forest of hardwoods. Almost in the middle of the forest stands a seventeenth-century mansion, built by Vincenzo I, Duke of Mantua.

Near the building appears the resurgence of the forest that gives its name: the "Fountain", whose existence has been known since the twelfth century, a period in which Gonzaga (not even the Lords of Mantua) bought this vast estate. Bosco della Fontana is now owned by the State Property and Forestry since 1976, is a Biogenetic Nature Reserve.