Goito

Goito is a comune of Lombardy, northern Italy, a part of the Province of Mantua, from which it is some 20 kilometres, on the road to Brescia. It is on the right financial institution of the Mincio River near the bridge. The metropolis is a part of the vicinity known as Alto Mantovano. It became based as a Roman colony inside the early 2^nd century BC as a defensive outpost on the Mincio crossing alongside the Via Postumia from Cremona to Verona. In the overdue 5^th century AD, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it grow to be a fortress of the Ostrogoths, from whom the present day name possibly derives.

Later it was conquered through the Lombards and the Franks. In the later Middle Ages it turned into held by the Canossa circle of relatives as part of the Holy Roman Empire, after which it installed itself as a loose commune. In the 15^th century Goito become contended between the Visconti and Gonzaga families, till, after a conflict fought on 14 June 1453, it became a ownership of marquis Ludovico III Gonzaga. He built right here a residence, restored the fortifications and built the Naviglio di Goito canal, and died here by way of plague in 1478. Goito maintained its prosperity below dukes Guglielmo and Vincenzo I Gonzaga.