Rye and canals surround the red brick walls: this is Soncino, a walled village and an oasis of Renaissance beauty in the countryside.

Dancing on the bends of the Po. Amidst rows of willows, poplars and farmhouses

The Duomo stands majestically at the end of Via Favagrossa. It is a neoclassical building, built in the mid-nineteenth century

The Violin Museum takes visitors through Cremona's five-century history of violin making, the great masters and their violins