Palazzo Ducale is a highlight of the UNESCO site "Mantova e Sabbioneta" as an extraordinary testimony of Mantua's history, Italian Renaissance and European art between the Middle Ages and the Baroque. Due to its articulated configuration, it was defined as a “city-palace”. This vast architectural complex occupies an area of about 35,000 square meters with more than 1.000 rooms, initially designed as a series of disaggregated buildings, which found an organic form during the Sixteenth Century.