The Ducal Palace of Guastalla (''Palazzo Ducale di Guastalla'' or ''Palazzo Gonzaga di Guastalla'') is an urban

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-style palace in the town of

Guastalla Guastalla ( Guastallese: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Reggio Emilia in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Geography Guastalla is situated in the Po Valley, and lies on the banks of the Po River. Guastalla is located at around from the citie ...

, a municipality in the

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. It was built on the site of a 15th-century palazzo of the Conti Torelli family, and rebuilt in the next century by Francesco Capriana (

Francesco da Volterra Francesco da Volterra (, ) was an Italian painter. He resided in Pisa from 1370 to 1372, where, from the records of the Campo Santo, he painted the ''History of Job'' on the south wall. Like the rest of the earlier pictures in the Campo Santo ...

), under commission to the Count of Guastalla,

Cesare I Gonzaga Cesare I Gonzaga (1530 – 15 February 1575) was count of Guastalla from 1557 until his death. He was a member of the House of Gonzaga, the first-born son of the imperial condottiero Ferrante Gonzaga and Isabella di Capua. From the latter, he in ...

. Neglected for years, it is currently a museum of the city. It contains art works from antique Roman cemeteries, paintings from deconsecrated chapels and oratories, as well as an exhibit of the modern watercolor painters Mario Bolzoni.Municipality of Guastalla
guide to museum.

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