Festa patronale 2024 del comune di Gualtieri
Unisciti a noi per celebrare la festa patronale di Gualtieri, un evento straordinario che celebra la ricca storia, la tradizione e la spiritualità della nostra comunità. La festa è dedicata al nostro amato santo patrono, Santa Maria della Neve, e sarà un'occasione di gioia, preghiera e divertimento per tutta la famiglia
In the Po floodplain, there are places known only to those fishermen and boatmen who explore the river bends. One of these places is the “Porto Vecchio” (old port), where nowadays it is possible to find the wreck of a tugboat and two small boats (bettoline), later bombed by an allied plane in spring 1944.
In the lowlands, next to the Po river, there is a theater, without a stage, in which actors and the public can dialogue in a new way.
In the village of Santa Vittoria - in Gualtieri - stands a large building constructed between 1770 and 1775 by the family of the noble Greppi from Milano - who had received a large agricultural estate in the area from the Estensi Counts. The palace is placed in the very centre of the village: its location and volume have affected the entire configuration of Santa Vittoria, preventing the construction of a square
The collection is hosted in the rooms of Palazzo Bentivoglio and consists of 50 works of considerable artistic value that the famous tailor Umberto Tirelli has donated to the City of Gualtieri.
Among these stand out Balthus drawings, paintings by Fabrizio Clerici, Renato Guttuso, Mino Maccari, Giorgio de Chirico, Giacomo Manzù. Also on show are two costumes designed by Pier Luigi Pizzi and Piero Tosi for the Enrico IV of Pirandello and for the Ludwig by Luchino Visconti.
