{"id":22495,"date":"2020-11-30T11:04:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T10:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/arte-e-cultura\/cristoforo-colombo-museum\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:28:14","slug":"cristoforo-colombo-museum","status":"publish","type":"arte-e-cultura","link":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/cristoforo-colombo-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristoforo Colombo Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the tradition, Colombo&#8217;s family lived not far from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/emiliaromagnaturismo.it\/index.php\/en\/towns\/bettola\">Bettola, <\/a>in a tower house in Pradello, where there is now the Cristoforo Colombo museum.<\/p>\n<p>Tower houses are typical of mountain areas: rooms are one over the other and the building looks like a small tower made of stones):here it is possible to visit, upon booking, a <strong>small museum<\/strong> dedicated to <a href=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/a-piacenzas-citizen-discovering-america\/\">Colombo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The caretaker lives in the house next to the museum. For the visit, please contact Bettolas council.<\/p>\n<p>From Cristoforo Colombo museum you may take a path leadig to <strong>Ebbio<\/strong>: these lands are called &#8216;red lands&#8217; quoted by Domenico Colombo, father of Cristoforo Colombo, who told he had gone along the path several times to escape from Sforza&#8217;s army in 1440-1450.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the tradition, Colombos family lived in a tower house in Pradello (tower houses are typical of mountain areas:rooms are one over the other and the building looks like a small tower made of stones):here it is possible to visit, upon booking, a small museum dedicated to Colombo. The caretaker lives in the house next to the museum.For the visit, please contact Bettolas council. 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