Visconti Castle - Civic Museums
4.3/5
★
based on 8 reviews
Contact Visconti Castle - Civic Museums
| Address : | Viale XI Febbraio, 35, 27100 Pavia PV, Italy |
| Phone : | 📞 +989977 |
| Website : | http://museicivici.comune.pv.it/ |
| Categories : | |
| City : | Pavia |
| Description : | Late Gothic-era castle built round a vast courtyard, with frescos, an art museum & history displays. |
|
U
|
Uzair Hashmi on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Super calm and composed place ? great for self relection
|
|
R
|
Roxana Meaney on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Just stunning Roman artifacts beautifully displayed. The modern donated art collection was also beautiful. Very impressive
|
|
F
|
Florian Van Impe on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Visconti Castle of Pavia (Castello Visconteo di Pavia in Italian) is a medieval castle in Pavia, Lombardy, Northern Italy. It was built after 1360 in a few years by Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan, and used as a sovereign residence by him and his son Gian Galeazzo, first duke of Milan. Its wide dimensions induced Petrarch, who visited Pavia in the fall of 1365, to call it "an enormous palace in the citadel, a truly remarkable and costly structure". Adjacent to the castle, the Visconti created a vast walled park that reached the Certosa di Pavia, a Carthusian monastery founded in 1396 by the Visconti as well and located about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) to the north.
In the 16th century, an artillery attack on Pavia destroyed a wing and two towers of the castle. The frescos that entirely decorated the castle rooms are today almost completely lost. The castle had been the seat of the Visconti Library until its transfer to Paris in 1499. Today, it hosts the Pavia Civic Museums.
|
|
D
|
Darckghost Rider (ure_unique) on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ NICE MEDIEVAL CASTLE.
|
|
J
|
James Kent-Nye on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Absolutely brilliant museum - I got in free for being in my early 20's too. Very interesting mixture of historic architectural, artifact and artistic pieces. Definitely worth a visit, even just to see the castle and it's grounds.
|
|
J
|
JOSE MACIAS on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Amazing place. My great great great great great.... Great grand uncle's palace! I felt right at home. Amazing history and architecture.
|
|
I
|
Iryna Pustynnikova on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Exellent archeological department, nice, but not big pinakoteka, lapidarium in inner yard. Good museum shop.
|
|
C
|
Constantina L on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Beautiful castle with a very nice museum on the inside. Full priced ticket for the civic museums is 10€
|
Write some of your reviews for the company Visconti Castle - Civic Museums
Your reviews will be very helpful to other customers in finding and evaluating information
Nearby places in the field of Tourist attraction, Art museum, History museum, Archaeological museum, Castle,
Nearby places Visconti Castle - Civic Museums
