L'Emozione della Grande Corsa - 2022

di Monica Saraiva
BRESCIA
ITINERARY FOR
MILLE MIGLIA
Visiting Brescia: a short itinerary to discover the Lioness of Italy
in one day.
Brescia is an ancient elegant city, inhabited since the Bronze
Age. Its Roman and Lombard monuments have been declared a
World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Besides, Brescia together with
Bergamo will be Capitals of Culture 2023.
To visit and admire its architectural beauty, highlighted by treelined
avenues and lush parks, you need more than one day but,
by relying on this simple itinerary to do on foot, I assure you that
you will be able to see a lot. So let’s start.
Being the city center almost all LTZ, I recommend you to leave
your car in one of the four exchanger parking lots in the city
and then reach the center by subway: Prealpino, Poliambulanza,
Casazza and Sant’Eufemia Buffalora are the parking lots close
to the metro stations, where the parking ticket is valid for bus/
subway too so, when you collect your car, you will only pay for
the trips you’ve made.
Piazza della Vittoria
Stepping out at the Vittoria station you will find yourself in the
square with the same name. (If you choose to arrive by car, there’s
a big underground parking lot in the square).
This itinerary starts in Piazza della Vittoria. Built in the late 1920s,
is one of the main squares of the city, a large space surrounded by
imposing buildings in the rationalist style, a significant example
of the urban planning trends of the fascist regime. Of particular
interest is the Torrione INA: the first Italian skyscraper and one
of the first in Europe, and the red stone stage of Tolmezzo, where
Mussolini gave the inaugural speech of the square in 1932.
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