Rivarolo Mantovano

A splendid town in the province of Mantua on the border with Cremona. The entire village is strongly influenced, as are many other places in the province, by the presence of the Gonzaga family. The old historic center within the walls has an architecture with long, straight streets overlooked by old rural houses, with Piazza Finzi, which represents the cultural and other center of the town.

The history of Rivarolo Mantovano is strongly characterized by the domination of the Gonzaga family, of which there are important and numerous traces throughout the municipal territory. Historical research informs us that the first urban nucleus of Rivarolo was located about a kilometer away from the current position, as evidence of the ancient settlement there are still the remains of the terraqueous mill, located on the bank of the Delmona canal, and a tombstone, from the Lombard era, kept in the current parish church and coming from the ancient parish church.
In 1432 the emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg officially sanctioned the Gonzaga lordship on the Rivarolo territory, which would continue for more than three centuries, leaving a precious baggage of history, monuments and traditions.

Beautiful medieval portal of this village in the middle of the countryside