Casalmaggiore ( Casalasco-Viadanese : Casalmagiùr ) is a comune in the province of Cremona , Lombardy , Italy , located on the Po River . It was the birthplace of Italian composers Ignazio Donati and Andrea Zani . Recently, its women's volleyball team Volleyball Casalmaggiore has played in the Serie A1 , winning the championship in the 2014–15 season.
4-893: Sights include the Duomo (cathedral), the Museo Diotti , and the Bijoux Museum. Archaeological findings in 1970 proved that the area was inhabited from the Bronze Age , although the town most likely was founded by the Romans as Castra Majora ("Main Military Camp"). Around the year 1000 it was a fortified castle in the House of Este lands; in the 15th century it was under the Republic of Venice . On July 2, 1754, it obtained
8-418: The historic center of Casalmaggiore , province of Cremona Lombardy , Italy . The museum, opened in 2007, is located in the palace once owned by the local painter Giuseppe Diotti (1779–1846). After a successful career, the painter moved back to Casalmaggiore late in life; and in 1838, he had the architect Fermo Zuccari restructure the palace. By 1865, the structure had become a local gallery, but then over
12-526: The status of city with an imperial decree. After a period under the Austrians, it became part of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy in 1861. This article on a location in the Province of Cremona is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Museo Diotti The Museo Diotti is an art institution and museum displaying 19th and 18th century art, located on Via Formis 17 in
16-459: The years functioned as a nursing home, school, and civic library. The museum has one wing on the piano nobile displaying works from the 19th century, many by Diotti himself, and maintaining the rooms as they would have looked when he lived, taught, and painted there. The display includes works by Marcantonio Ghislina , Francesco Antonio Chiozzi , Paolo Araldi , Paolo Troubetzkoy , Tommaso Aroldi , Gaetano Previati , and Amedeo Bocchi . In
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