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Events Cremona
Tuesday 22 August 2017
Teatro Ponchielli
Category: Theatre
Time: all year
Beautiful opera house built from 1806, with a capacity of 1,188 seats. It is dedicated to Amilcare Ponchielli, a famous Cremona musician. It offers a rich concert, lyric, dance and prose season. The program is available on the theater website.
City: Cremona
Violin Museum
Category: Attractions
Time: all year
The museum includes 10 rooms featuring the most important instruments of the great Cremona classical masters and over 700 stradivarian artefacts, including drawings, shapes and tools handed down directly from Antonio Stradivari's workshop. Inside the museum there is an auditorium with 464 seats where soloists and chamber orchestras perform.
Where: Palazzo dell'arte
City: Cremona
Museo civico Ala Ponzone
Category: Attractions
Time: all year
The picture gallery, which has been housed since 1928 in the Palazzo Affaitati, preserves works of art, decorated furniture and musical instruments (guitars, lutes and mandolins). Among the paintings, to mention the San Francesco in meditation by Caravaggio and the Ortolano by Arcimboldo.
Where: Palazzo Affaitati
City: Cremona
Cremona Cathedral, Torrazzo and Baptistery
Category: Attractions
Time: all year
The cathedral, built since the twelfth century, is a splendid example of Romanesque style. Preserve masterpieces of painting and sculpture, including the frescos of Romanino and Pordenone. The building dominates the square along with the baptistery and the bell tower, known as the Torrazzo, 112 meters high, with a magnificent view of the city and the river Po'.
City: Cremona
450° - Cremona per Monteverdi 2017
Category: Concerts
Time: all year
Cremona celebrates the 450th birthday of Claudio Monteverdi, his illustrious fellow citizen, with a rich show of concerts throughout the city. The program can be consulted on the website below.
Where: Various locations
City: Cremona
