The Castle of Bereguardo is an impressive Visconti-style fortress from the 14th century. It stands in the center of the town, surrounded by the clearly visible remains of the ancient moat. The castle…
Camillo Golgi Museum
The museum is dedicated to Camillo Golgi (1843-1926), who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906 for the invention of a histological method, the black reaction or chrome-argentic…
Santa Croce abbey - Mortara
The Santa Croce abbey was instead the church of Ordine Mortariense, built in the year one thousand outside of the village walls and rebuilt in 1596 by the project of Pellegrino Tibaldi, il Pellegrino…
Basilica of San Lorenzo
The basilica of San Lorenzo with its sophisticated Gothic façade was dedicated to Bartolino da Novara, who painted it at the end of 1300. Inside, the church with a nave and two aisles amazes the high…
Sanctuary of Madonna del Campo - Mortara
The church, which already existed in 1100, offers painting testimonies of different times including even a Mercy and two statues that represent San Domenico and San Giovanni Battista attributed to…
Palestro Battle Ossuary
The Palestro Battle of May 31st 1859: one of the most legendary battles of the Second War of Italian Independence, fought by the Franco-Piemontese army led by Vittorio Emanuele II, who, overtaken the…
Museum of Mineralogy
The origins of the Museum of Mineralogy, located at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences of the University of Pavia, date back to the late 18th century. The oldest part of the…
The Museum of Electrical Technology
The Museum of Electrical Engineering aims to present the historical heritage of electrical engineering and its impact on all aspects of daily life in an international context, covering the entire…
Ugo Fantelli Archaeological and Naturalistic Collection
The collection, which consists of around 1,000 items, is divided into two distinct sections: the natural history section and the archaeological-ethnographic section. The first includes mineralogical…
Ecomuseo del Paesaggio Lomellino
Castles, abbeys, basilicas, noble palaces. And then heronries, water springs, mounds, ancient Roman roads. With one common denominator: rice. This is the Ecomuseum of the Lomellina Landscape , a…
Giuseppe Beccari Historical Museum
The "Giuseppe Beccari" Historical Museum preserves relics, documents, weapons, medals, and military uniforms, from the Napoleonic era to the present. It also houses the 9mm Beretta pistol with which…
Rovescala
The village of Rovescala lies in a hilly position in the small valley of the Bardonezza stream, on the border with the province of Piacenza, and can be reached by following a scenic road that winds…