Tesina terza media Mantova

Ricerca di inglese di Fabiola Rossi – Classe III B

Scuola Media Statale G. Fasiani – Garessio

Mantova

Mantova is an Italian town, capital of the province in Lombardy. His name derives from the Etruscan god Mantu.

Mantova stands on two small islands created by debris deposited by the river Mincio, which still surrounds the city on three sides, taking the name of Lake Superior, Middle and Lower. A fourth branch (called the Leaky Lake) was buried at the end of 700.

All around there is a plain green very fertile: born from the contemplation of the Georgics of Virgil, the great poet of Mantua.

The first village is built perhaps in 2000 B.C. here in the middle of ponds that formed the Mincio.

Le origini etrusche

The climate and the environment have here fundamental importance. From the seventh century B.C. onwards, the presence of artifacts becomes substantial, reaching its peak in the fifth century, when the Etruscans set and regulate a system of trade between the East, the Adriatic coast and the inland regions.

We recognize almost twenty sites with traces of a civilization Etruscan Valley. Fundamental is the Forcello, near Bagnolo San Vito, from which a wealth of material: ceramics many, terracotta objects, bone, stone, amber, bronze vases, pendants, brooches.

We quote De Marinis: With the development of the organism political Etruscans in the Po valley and the Greek market penetration, especially Attic, Adriatic, Mantua was to buy a key strategic role as the starting point of the street and along the Mincio led to Como, the main center of the culture of Golasecca they passed through the relationships with the transalpine world.

Around the sixth century B.C. developed the Etruscan city. The name of Mantova originates from the Etruscan god Mantus hell in which the founder Ocno would have dedicated the Romans then confuse with Manto, daughter of Homeric Tiresia.

Between the first and second Punic wars underwent Roman rule without becoming a major urban center. 1 di 3

Monumenti e dominazioni

San Giorgio’s Castle Cathedral

Following the fall of the Roman the city was invaded by barbarians and the different dominations of the Goths, Byzantines, Lombards and Franks, until, at the tenth century, came finally to be part of the properties of the Canossa, whose last representative was the Countess Matilda, who died in 1115.

In this period of Mantova adorned important buildings but the only surviving town era Matilda is the Rotonda di San Lorenzo, which seems to have been built on the ruins of a pagan temple in 1082.

Captain’s Palace Broletto’s square