Brescia Travel Guide

 croisbeauty Says:  The church of San Francesco, St. Francis, was built in 1254-1265, and it has a handsome facade. In fact, the whole church looks very beautiful in particularly the rear side where the presbitery is situated.Inside the church contains paintings from the 14th century, works of... 

 croisbeauty Says:  The ground floor of the Torre della Pallata is decorated with an beautiful fountain, which is meeting point for the locals. The fountain is made of the white marble from Botticino. The marble of many Brescian monuments comes from Botticino, starting from the Roman era when... 

 croisbeauty Says:  Beautiful Clock Tower, Torre della Pallata, is situated at the cross of Corso Garibaldi and Via Pace. The 31 metres tower was constructed in the 13th century under the designs of Bagnadore. It is one of the emblems of the town of Brescia. 

 leics Says:  What can I say about this huge complex? It's just been made a UNESCO World Heritage site, for its magnificent convent and the two churches with...San Salvatore and Santa Giulia. It contains the civic museum as well as those two churches, stuffed with fascinating local... 

 leics Says:  You'll have to keep your eyes open for the narrow 'street' which leads to Brixia's theatre. Walk a little further east from the Forum, along Via dei Musei, and you'll find Vicolo Fontanone leading off Via Giovanni Piamarta on your right. Follow it and, all of a sudden, the... 

 leics Says:  Via dei Musei leads from the Broletto on Piazza Paolo toward the Roman centre of Brixia (Brecia's name at that time). It tuns along the same route as the Roman decumanus maximus, the main east-west street of any Roman town (the Romans built to a grid pattern). Folliwing it... 

 leics Says:  When I emerged from the arcades eading from Piazza Paolo Vl this piazza was a bit of a shock.I had not expected such a very 'modern' setting. But it's is impressive in its own way, although its regimented style is not to my personal taste.Designed by the architect Piacenini,... 

 leics Says:  The Duomo Vecchio (Rotonda) is such an ancient church (1100s, but built over an earlier church probably dating from the 7th century) that its entrance now lies some way beneath the modern surface of Piazza Paolo Vl. You now enter through what was originally the women's... 

 leics Says:  I din't really pay as much attention to this as I should have done. It looked too modern. Since returning home and researching further, it turns out that the Torre dell'Orlogico is really pretty old.Venice has a similar clock tower, and the good citizens of late-Medieval... 

 152 Opinions

 Turska Says:  There´s ice cream sold at every corner in Italy. It´s hard to belive, that we Finns do eat more ice cream per person than any other country in Europe! One could thought,that Italians eat more. But I think they will buy more ice cream from gelaterias, when we Finns have those... 

 leics Says:  Italian trains are safe, comfortable and very reasonably-priced. The network is extensive and thus it is entirely possible to get to Brescia from anywhere.The direct train from Bergamo (my base) takes an hour but there are obviously direct trains from other locations... 

 leics Says:  Tower houses (tall, square structures up to 7 or 8 storeys high, sometimes more) were all the rage in northern Italy during the 1100s. they were a way of showing your neighbours just how wealthy and powerful your family was.I'm fascinated by them...fascinated by their... 

 leics Says:  Again, somewhere I came across entirely unexpectedly.I wandered along Via dei Musei on my way to see the roman temples and theatre. A sign the 16th/17th century Palazzo Martinengro (now used as fuction rooms and suchlike) invited me in Italian to visit the archaeological... 

 leics Says:  I came across this place quite unexpectedly, by walking under the Porta Bruciata (a Medieval tower-gate to the north-east of Piazza della Loggia) and then taking one of the narrow side-streets...Vicolo San Giuseppe. My eye was first caught by the lovely fresco, apparently...