By Air

Brescia has a very small airport located 20 Km from the city centre in Montichiari.It serves only few destinations:Girona Barcelona,London Stansted ( both Ryanair flights), Olbia ( Sardinia ), Rome, Napoli, Crotone ( all air-bee flights ).However you can reach Brescia from Milan Orio al Serio Airport which is in province of Bergamo (50 Km away) and it serves a lot of low cost airlines such as Ryanair, AirItaly, Transavia, MyAir, etc.Brescia is also easily reachable via Verona VillaFranca Airport (50 Km away) Milan Linate (100 Km away) and Milan Malpensa airport (150 Km away).

By Train

You can reach Brescia by any train from the expensive Eurostars to the cheap and slow Regionale commuter trains. It is about an hour from Milan (costing €6 on the Regionale), and other cities including Bergamo, Verona, Venice, etc. are within an hour or two.

Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Duomo Nuovo Cathedral, Santa Giulia's cloister, Valtrompia

Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo

is a public art collection in Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy, exhibiting mainly paintings by local artists from the 13th through 18th centuries.The gallery opened in 1851 in the Palazzo Tosio, endowed in 1832 with the collection of Count Paolo Tosio and further enriched by donations and gathering of items from local religious buildings. For some paintings in the collection see the Category for Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia below.In 1884, the Count Leopardo Martinengo da Barco added to the painting collection and endowed a library and collections of scientific artifacts to display in his palace.The collection includes works by Vincenzo Foppa, Ferramola, Paolo Veneziano, Andrea Solario, Francesco Francia, Lorenzo Lotto, and Lattanzio Gambara.

Duomo Nuovo Cathedral

Construction on the new cathedral began in 1604 and continued till 1825. While initially a contract was awarded to Palladio, economic shortfalls awarded the project, still completed in a Palladian style, to the young Brescian architect Giovanni Battista Lantana, with decorative projects directed mainly by Pietro Maria Bagnadore. The façade is designed mainly by Giovanni Battista and Antonio Marchetti, while the cupola was designed by Luigi Cagnola. Interior frescoes including the Marriage, Visitation, and Birth of the Virgin, as well as the Sacrifice of Isaac, were frescoed by Bonvicino. The main attraction is the Arch of Sts. Apollonius and Filastrius (1510).

Santa Giulia's cloister

This museum and former convent houses a massive collection of art and archeology dating back more than 10,000 years and exploring the region's history from pre-history to Roman occupation to the Lombard invasion, etc.The museums also contain foundational remnants of Brescian houses from various periods.The permanent collection of religious art is one of the best in northern Italy, and the city prides itself in attracting traveling exhibits of excellent and prestigious collections.It is currently displaying over 100 of Van Gogh's early sketches, designs and paintings (2008-April 2009). Some English translations will be found throughout the museum, but they will be inconsistent and poorly translated.

Valtrompia

Though police are beginning to crack down, the eponymous highway through the valley is home to one of Europe's largest centers for transvestite. Travelers on a casual daytime drive will spot many of these and other more but look out cars will often pull over quite suddenly, causing accidents.This, and not the fact that many of the workers are kidnapped from eastern Europe and elsewhere and enslaved by unscrupulous pimps and drug dealers, is in fact the cause of the crackdown. Sociologically interested tourists may find the drive quite fascinating.

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