Visit to the Santa Giulia Museum - City Museum

Visit to the Santa Giulia Museum - City Museum

Unique in Italy and in Europe for exhibition design and venue, the City Museum is set up inside the monastery of Santa Giulia, incorporated into the oldest Benedictine monastery of San Salvatore built by the last Lombard king Desiderius and his wife Ansa in 753 AD on an area occupied by Roman domus. The monumental complex played a leading role even after the defeat inflicted on the Lombards by Charlemagne, becoming a place of stratified historical memories and a continuous source of surprising discoveries. According to tradition, taken up by Alessandro Manzoni in the Adelchi, the dramatic story of Ermengarda, daughter of King Desiderius and wife repudiated by Charlemagne, would have been consummated here.
The monumental complex of San Salvatore-Santa Giulia, together with the Archaeological Park of Roman Brescia, has been registered since June 2001 in the List of Heritage, promoted by UNESCO, on the serial site "The Longobards in Italy. The places of power (568-774 d. C.) ".

Visit: Museo di Santa Giulia, Via Dei Musei 81/b, 25121 Brescia Italy

Housed in a monastic complex of Lombard origin recognized as World Heritage by UNESCO, the Museum of S. Giulia allows a journey through the history, art and spirituality of Brescia from the prehistoric age to the eighteenth century. Visitors will be able to admire the approximately 12,000 works exhibited among finds from the Cenomani roosters, marble and bronze statues from the Roman age, rich Roman and Lombard funerary outfits, architectural elements, mosaics and Roman and Renaissance frescoes. The visit itinerary winds through the monastic spaces, opening up in particularly significant places and buildings such as, for example, the Roman domus of Ortaglia, the Viridarum, the Lombard Basilica of San Salvatore and its crypt, the Romanesque oratory of Santa Maria in Solarium, the Coro delle Monache, the sixteenth-century church of Santa Giulia and the Renaissance cloisters.