Mantua is a thriving productive center on the Padana Plain, whose land is shaped by the slow and sinuous courses of its rivers the Po, the Oglio, the Chiese and the Mincio. The calm and expansive waters of the latter envelope almost the whole town and it forms three lakes which are frequented by tourist boats (www.naviandes.com), which through the lower course of the Mincio river, they pass by San Benedetto Po (www.comune.san-benedetto-po.mn.it), seat of a famous Saint Benedictine Abbey, these boats arrive into the Adriatic Sea and to Venice.

This territorial uniformity is often interrupted by parks and thickly wooded areas, such as Bosco Fontana, with a splendid hunting-estate, Bertone park, seat of the white-stork breeding, Belfiore park on the shore of the lake ect., and where a variety of rare flora and fauna can be found (www.parcodelmincio.it).

In the south of the province a stop to Sabbioneta is a “must” (www.sabbioneta.it) the” little Athens of the Gonzaga” a wonderful town founded by Vespasiano Gonzaga, it preserves all its architectonic and artistic jewels.

In the north of the province, in the immediate proximity of Garda Lake, rises the Morainic Hills (www.collinemoreniche.it), they are full of wonderful and suggestive views and of the history of the Risorgimento: Solferino and San Martino, Castiglione delle Stiviere, the birthpace of the Red Cross with the International Museum.

All the province is lined by cycle paths that allows to discover the hiddenest and most romantic corners.