What to see in Crema, itinerary including the main monuments and places of interest, including the Civic Museum, Palazzo Terni, the Duomo, the Church of the Holy Trinity and the Basilica of Santa Maria della Croce.
Tourist information
Agricultural and industrial center of small dimensions, located near the Serio river, Crema is also famous for the presence of laboratories specialized in the production of bells and organs.
Fortified castle in the Middle Ages, it was an ally of Milan during the municipal struggles of the twelfth century and was razed to the ground in 1160 by the army of Federico Barbarossa.
After it was rebuilt it was dominated first by Cremona and then by the Visconti, while from the mid-fifteenth century to the end of the eighteenth it belonged to the Republic of Venice.
The Civic Museum is located in the former Augustinian convent in via Dante Alighieri.
Inside the convent, built between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, there are two cloisters and a refectory, decorated with frescoes painted between 1498 and 1507.
In the same street overlooks the eighteenth-century Palazzo Terni de ’Gregori, a building built by Cozzi but remained unfinished.
What see
The Duomo, located in the homonymous square, was erected in Lombard Gothic style between 1284 and 1341.
The gabled façade of the Cathedral is divided into three arches crowned by an arched gallery and completed by some mullioned windows, three rose windows and a magnificent portal.
In the interior with three naves there is a valuable fifteenth-century panel, made by Civerchio and depicting Saints Christopher, Sebastian and Rocco.
In the Piazza del Duomo there is also the sixteenth-century Palazzo Comunale, with Venetian-style windows.
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Not far away, in via Benzoni, is the Palazzo Vimercati-Sanseverino, built in 1623.
At the end of via XX Settembre, near Porta Ombriano, there is the Church of the Holy Trinity, a jewel of the Cremas Baroque dating back to the period between 1737 and 1739.
In the surroundings, about 1 km away, there is the Basilica of Santa Maria della Croce, a Renaissance construction built at the end of the fifteenth century by Battagio, who took inspiration from Bramante in drawing it.
