The musical and violin making history of Cremona has left very important traces in the present-day city, beginning with those related to the life of the great Antonio Stradivari like the Casa Nuziale in Corso Garibaldi 57, which was both his home and workshop since 1667, and the replica of his tombstone, presently in the public gardens in Piazza Roma, built in 1870 in the same place where the church and monastery of San Domenico, the maestro's burial place had been. Not far away from the gardens, in Piazza Stradivari, a modern statute commemorates the maestro. However, the most direct testimony of Stradivari's art are housed in the Museo Stradivariano, a section of the Museo Civico that showcases wood shapes, models, templates and tools from the maestro's workshop, which his son sold after Stradivari's death; these items were sold and transferred to various private collections and at last donated to Cremona in 1930 by luthier Giuseppe Fiorini. Purchases and donations played a vital part also in another precious and basically unique collection: the violins collection in Palazzo Comunale that makes it possible for music enthusiasts to look at some unique masterpieces of ancient Cremona lutheries made by Andrea Amati, Antonio and Gerolamo Amati, Nicolò Amati, Giuseppe Guarneri, Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù... all in the same room. Cremona has maintained its status of capital of lutherie still today, as testified not only by the many luthier workshops scattered all over the placid city centre streets, but also by other important musical institutions, especially learning/educational ones. For example, Palazzo Raimondi houses both the Musicology Faculty and the Fondazione W. Stauffer that promotes, amongst other things, annual refresher courses and specialised training programmes for violinists. Palazzo Pallavicino Ariguzzi, a 15th century mansion with an elegant internal portico with ogive arches, is home to the Scuola Internazionale di Liuteria and the Fondazione Stradivari Cremona “La Triennale”, a school and a foundation which both are proof of the role that Cremona still plays in lutherie and music. Inside the palace the Collezione di Liuteria Contemporanea (Contemporary Lutherie Collection) is on exhibit, a collection that consists of all the stringed instruments which won the various edition of the Concorso Internazionale di Liuteria.