Cycling from Cremona to Busseto
Cremona is located on the left bank of the Po River, which is the longest river in Italy. It starts in the Alps and flows in a generally West-to-East direction Read More …
Category: Busseto
Home of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Busseto is a small town of 6,890 inhabitants, located in the Po Valley of northern Italy, about a hundred kilometers southeast of Milan. The great opera composer Giuseppe Verdi was Read More …
May you be struck by lightning!
The Church of San Michele Arcangelo (Saint Michael the Archangel) was and is just a few steps away from Verdi’s birth house. This plaque recounts the story of how Verdi’s Read More …
Casa Barezzi in Busseto, Italy
Giuseppe Verdi’s first public appearance as a musician (aside from playing the organ and harmonium in church) was in this room in February 1829, when he was sixteen. The Read More …
Villa Verdi in Sant’ Agata
There are several towns in Italy called Sant’ Agata, but this particular one is a small village on the Ongina stream three kilometers north of Busseto. Administratively, Sant’ Agata belongs Read More …
Choral concert in Teatro Verdi
The main square in the center of Busseto is of course called Piazza Verdi. On the north side of the square is the citadel or “Rocca”, which was once the Read More …
Liberate the air
On a Sunday afternoon in Roncole in 2008, these cyclists started gathering in the square just across the street from Verdi’s birth house, in front of the Church of San Read More …