International Red Cross Museum

A mongst the grand buildings decorating the charming town of Castiglione delle Stiviere, in the province of Mantua (10 km from Lake Garda), there is a palace which recalls one of the most significant pages in the history of human solidarity and international human rights. It is the eighteenth-century noble palace Triulzi-Longhi, in which, thanks to the initiative of Enzo Boletti, in 1959 the International Museum of the Red Cross has been installed, to witness that one hundred years earlier, in Castiglione delle Stiviere the idea of what today is the most important humanitarian organization in the world found its origins thanks to the bright sensibility of a young businessman from Geneva, Henry Dunant. This Museum includes documents, surgical instruments, litters and camp equipment witnessing past and present activities of the Red Cross in the World, including several ambulances