Sabbioneta

Sabbioneta Subiùnèda (Emilian)
Comune
Comune di Sabbioneta
Piazza Ducale
Location of Sabbioneta
Sabbioneta Location of Sabbioneta in Italy Sabbioneta Sabbioneta (Lombardy)
Coordinates: 45.00°N 10.49°E / 45.00; 10.49
Country	Italy
Region	Lombardy
Province	Mantua (MN)
Frazioni	Breda Cisoni, Ca' de Cessi, Commessaggio Inferiore, Ponteterra, Villa Pasquali
Government
• Mayor	Antonio Beccari
Area
• Total	37 km2 (14 sq mi)
Elevation	18 m (59 ft)
Population  (2018-01-01)
• Total	4,260
• Density	120/km2 (300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	46018
Dialing code	0375
Patron saint	San Sebastiano
Saint day	20 January
Website	Official website
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Part of	Mantua and Sabbioneta
Criteria	Cultural: (ii)(iii)
Reference	1287-002
Inscription	2008 (32nd Session)
Area	60 ha (150 acres)
Buffer zone	430 ha (1,100 acres)

Galleria degli Antichi

Sabbioneta (Casalasco-Viadanese: Subiùnèda) is a town and comune in the province of Mantua, Lombardy region, Northern Italy. It is situated about 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Parma, not far from the northern bank of the Po River. It was inscribed in the World Heritage List in 2008.

History

Sabbioneta was founded by Vespasiano I Gonzaga in the late 16th century along the ancient Roman Via Vitelliana, on a sandy bank of the Po (whence the name, meaning "Sandy" in Italian); he was its first duke, using it as a personal fortress and residence.

It was also during this period that it became a minor musical centre; composers such as Benedetto Pallavicino (c. 1551-1601) were employed here by Vespasiano Gonzaga, prior to his moving to the main Gonzaga city of Mantua.

Statue of Vespasiano I Gonzaga.

Main sights

In 2008, Sabbioneta was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List as a recognition of its perfect example of practical application of Renaissance urban planning theories.

Sabbioneta is also known for its historic Jewish Ghetto and Synagogue, and in particular for its Hebrew printing-press. In 1551 Tobias Foa set up the press; he had, however, published certain "anti-Christian books" and his career was "forcibly ended". His work and possibly his type were taken up by a Christian printer, Vicenzo Conte.

Vespasiano Gonzaga's town, designed according to the Renaissance principles of the Ideal City, included:

• The Ducal Palace (now the Town Hall)
• The Teatro all'antica ("Theatre in the style of the Ancients"), designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi
• The Galleria degli Antichi and Palazzo del Giardino: "Gallery of the Ancient" and "Garden Palace" respectively.)
• Churches of the Assunta and Carmine
• Chiesa della Beata Vergine Incoronata

The church and the summer palace contain frescoes by artists of the Campi family of Cremona.

• Sabbioneta photographed by Paolo Monti, 1965
• 
  Palazzo Ducale
• 
  View of Piazza Ducale from Palazzo Ducale
• 
  Galleria degli Antichi / Corridor Grande
• 
  Porta Vittoria

Sources

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sabbioneta". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 963.
• Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna duca di Sabbioneta e cavaliere del Toson d'oro. Sabbioneta. (2001).
• Luca Sarzi Amadè, Il duca di Sabbioneta: Guerre e amori di un europeo del XVI secolo ...

Paperback: 332 pages; Publisher: SugarCo (1990); ISBN 88-7198-040-9

• Vespasiano Gonzaga e il ducato di Sabbioneta, [actes de la conferència, Sabbioneta-Mantova, 12-13 ottobre 1991], a cura de U. Bazzotti, Mantova (1993).
• L. Ventura, Il collezionismo di un principe: la raccolta di marmi di Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna, (Modena), (1997).
• Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna 1531-1591: l'uomo e le opere, actes del congrés d'estudis, Teatro olimpico di Sabbioneta, 5 de juny, 1999; a cura de E. Asinari, [Casalmaggiore] (1999).

External links

• Vespasiano I Gonzaga Da Fondi
• iatsabbioneta.org
• Sabbioneta (jewishencyclopedia.com)
• Photo gallery made by a UNESCO photographer