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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Mantua and Sabbioneta' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
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city in Lombardy, Italy | WIKI |
Mantua (/xcbx88mxc3xa6ntjuxc9x99/; Italian: Mantova [xcbx88mantova] (listen); Lombard and Latin: Mantua) is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name. | WIKI |
[3] Mantua is noted for its significant role in the history of opera; the city is also known for its architectural treasures and artifacts, elegant palaces, and the medieval and Renaissance cityscape. | WIKI |
It is the city where the composer Monteverdi premiered his opera L'Orfeo and to where Romeo was banished in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. | WIKI |
Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes, created during the 12th century as the city's defence system. | WIKI |
A fourth lake, Lake Pajolo, which once served as a defensive water ring around the city, dried up at the end of the 18th century. | WIKI |
In 2017, Legambiente ranked Mantua as the best Italian city for the quality of the life and environment. | WIKI |
Mantua's most famous ancient citizen is the poet Virgil, or Publius Vergilius Maro (Mantua me genuit), who was born in the year 70 BC at a village near the city which is now known as Virgilio. | WIKI |
In 1198, Alberto Pitentino altered the course of River Mincio, creating what the Mantuans call "the four lakes" to reinforce the city's natural protection. | WIKI |
From 1215, the city was ruled under the podesteria of the Guelph poet-statesman Rambertino Buvalelli. | WIKI |
The Gonzagas built new walls with five gates and renovated the city in the 14th century; however, the political situation did not settle until the third ruler of Gonzaga, Ludovico III Gonzaga, who eliminated his relatives and centralised power to himself. | WIKI |
Federico commissioned Giulio Romano to build the famous Palazzo Te, on the periphery of the city, and profoundly improved the city. | WIKI |
In early February 1797, the city surrendered and the region came under French administration. | WIKI |
Two years later, in 1799, the city was recaptured by the Austrians after the Siege of Mantua (1799). | WIKI |
Later, the city again passed into Napoleon's control and became a part of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy. | WIKI |
Alternatively, the city can be reached from Milan on the State Road 415 (Milan-Cremona) to Cremona and from there State Road 10 (Cremona-Mantova), or from Verona on the State Road 62. | WIKI |
Local bus services, urbano (within the city area and suburbs) and interurbano (within the surrounding towns and villages) are provided by APAM. | WIKI |
Since local government political reorganization in 1993, Mantua has been governed by the City Council of Mantua. | WIKI |
They illustrate the two main forms of Renaissance town planning: the newly founded town, based on the concept of ideal city planning, and the transformed existing town. | UNESCO |