Guidizzolo (
Upper Mantovano: ) is a ''
comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces ('' province''). The can ...
'' (municipality) in the
Province of Mantua in the
Italian region
Lombardy, located about east of
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard language, Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the List of cities in Italy, second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 ...
and about northwest of
Mantua
Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard language, Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, province of the same name.
In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture ...
. The bordering municipalities of Guidizzolo are
Cavriana,
Ceresara
Ceresara ( Upper Mantovano: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Mantua in the Italian region Lombardy, located about east of Milan and about northwest of Mantua. , it had a population of 2,544 and an area of .All demographics and ...
,
Goito,
Medole and
Solferino
Solferino ( Upper Mantovano: ) is a small town and municipality in the province of Mantua, Lombardy, northern Italy, approximately south of Lake Garda.
It is best known as being close to the site of the Battle of Solferino on 24 June 1859, pa ...
.
Main sights
The most ancient edifice is the Oratory of St. Lawrence, a small
Romanesque devotional building dating from the 13th century.
''Guidizzolo Tragedy''
The road between
Cerlongo
Goito ( Upper Mantovano: ) is a ''comune'' with a population of 10,005 in the Province of Mantua in Lombardy. Goito is north of Mantua on the road leading to Brescia and Lake Garda, and straddles the old east–west Via Postumia between Cremon ...
and Guidizzolo, in the communal territory of Cavriana, was the location of
Alfonso de Portago
Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton, 11th Marquess of Portago, GE (11 October 1928 – 12 May 1957), best known as Alfonso de Portago, was a Spanish aristocrat, racing and bobsleigh driver, jockey and pilot.
Born in London to a prominent fami ...
's fatal accident in the 1957
Mille Miglia
The Mille Miglia (, ''Thousand Miles'') was an open-road, motorsport endurance race established in 1927 by the young Counts Francesco Mazzotti and Aymo Maggi, which took place in Italy twenty-four times from 1927 to 1957 (thirteen before Worl ...
, where 12 people died. A memorial at the roadside commemorates the event.
De Portago's 4.2-litre
Ferrari 335 S blew a tyre and crashed into the roadside crowd travelling at . The crash killed the driver, the co-driver and ten spectators, including five children. Spinning out of control, the Ferrari hit a channel on the left side of the road, then veered back into the onlookers. Two of the dead children were hit by a concrete highway milestone that was ripped from the ground by the car and thrown into the crowd. The body of Portago was in two sections, and co-driver Edmund Nelson was badly disfigured beneath the upside down vehicle.
["Daredevil Sportsman Perishes", '']Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the ...
'', May 13, 1957, Page 1.
Enzo Ferrari was charged with manslaughter in a criminal prosecution that was finally dismissed in 1961.
References
External links
Official website
Cities and towns in Lombardy
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