Explore Brescia
Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
San Salvatore-Santa Giulia is a former convent in Brescia founded in 753 by the future Lombard king Desiderius and his wife Ansa, and now the city museum, the Museo di Santa Giulia. Its 9th-century basilica of San Salvatore with Carolingian-era frescoes is part of the UNESCO site Longobards in Italy, inscribed in 2011.
Official site
The Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo is Brescia's civic art gallery, opened in 1851 with the collection of Count Paolo Tosio and enlarged in 1884 by Count Leopardo Martinengo da Barco. Reopened in 2018 after nine years of renovation, it shows paintings and sculpture from the 13th to the 18th century, with works by Vincenzo Foppa, Lorenzo Lotto and Paolo Veneziano.
Official site
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