Casalmaggiore

Casalmaggiore is a comune in the province of Cremona, Lombardy, Italy, located throughout the Po River. It become the birthplace of Italian composers Ignazio Donati and Andrea Zani. The Museo Diotti is an art institution and museum showing 19th and 18th century art, located on Via Formis 17 within the ancient center of Casalmaggiore, province of Lombardy, Italy. Sights encompass the Duomo, the Museo Diotti, and the Bijoux Museum.

Archaeological findings in 1970 proved that the place was inhabited from the Bronze Age, although the city maximum probably become founded via the Romans as Castra Majora. Around the year 1000 it was a fortified castle inside the House of Este lands; inside the fifteenth century it changed into under the Republic of Venice. On July 2, 1754, it obtained the repute of town with an imperial decree. After a duration beneath the Austrians, it have become part of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy in 1861.