Gallery Museum Palace Valenti Gonzaga

Mantua’s Lovers

Don’t ask me not to love you, I can’t. I’ve seen you…
 
"The most romantic city in the world." Aldous Huxley described Mantua in this way, in a single phrase that keeps the same charm of this city.
But he was not the only one who loved it so much. Charles Baudelaire found it "a world asleep in a warm light", Charles Dickens sang its "unrealistic lakes of reeds and rushes”, while the Calabrian Corrado Alvaro called it a " paradise of melancholy”.
Poets and writers from every place and time remained enchanted by the monuments, the palaces and the gravel roads that cross the city.
Mantua has an ancient heart, but it can give new emotions every day that you can feel walking in the streets and immersing yourself in the lives of its inhabitants with those familiar faces …
Like Venus it seems to be born from the waters, and like Venus it deserves the title of the most beautiful. But Mantua is not a myth, it is a reality that only expects to be revealed…
 
Beatrice Linardi