Sunday April 30th, 2023
Day dedicated to the museums of Brescia. We leave home around 8.30 and around 9.30 we arrive in Brescia. We park a short distance from Piazzale Arnaldo and head to the Santa Giulia museum which is still closed. Waiting for the opening hour, we walk up to the Capitolium, there are already a few groups around. We get to the Duomo and go back. A long queue formed in front of the museum within minutes. We decide to postpone the visit until later and start from the Capitolium. We arrive at the ticket office just as it is opening. Unfortunately even here, without a reservation, we have to wait.
They set us entry for 13.00, but they tell us that the ticket is also valid for Santa Giulia. We then return to the museum and enter by skipping the line. However, the ticket is valid only for the museum and not for the exhibitions we wanted to see. So we buy online tickets for the exhibitions and finally manage to enter. We start with the exhibition “Misery and Nobility” and then the photographic exhibition “Light of the mountain”. After visiting the exhibitions around 11.30, we decide to go and see another exhibition at the Tosio-Martinengo Art Gallery, and we also visit the art gallery.
Afternoon
We quickly eat a toast nearby and return to the Capitolium in time for the visit (we have to wait a bit). In addition We would like to see another exhibit at the diocesan museum, but it’s temporarily closed for the lunch break. So we go up to the castle (it’s a bit tiring).
We plan to start from the Risorgimento museum, but first we admire the view from the walls and climb a tower. Thus we arrive in the upper part of the castle. Here we visit a temporary exhibition on oriental carpets and, since the Risorgimento museum is lower down, we choose to visit the arms museum first. At the end, considering that we still have the diocesan museum, we opt not to see the one of the Risorgimento and therefore we return to the lower part of the city.
We would like to have an ice cream, but we arrive at the museum without finding any ice cream shops. We see the inside of the church of S. Giuseppe and then we enter its cloister, where the diocesan museum is located. Then we take the much desired ice cream in Piazza della Vittoria, we pass by Palazzo Martinengo (we only enter the courtyard, we do not visit it), and we return to the car. We arrive home in the late afternoon.
