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Visit to the Museum of War Medicine and the Red Cross at Villa Torreggiani

By Italia in Tour
Free cancellation available
Price is €20 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

  • Over 10 years of experience in organising guided visits in Italy.
  • All our guided visits are conducted by licensed tour guides.
  • Entry ticket and guided visit included in the price.

Activity location

    • Brescia
    • Brescia, Lombardia, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 45, 25086 Rezzato BS, Italia | In front of the Villa entrance, Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 45, 25086 Rezzato BS, Italy
    • Rezzato, Lombardia, Italy

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Visit to the Museum of War Medicine and the Red Cross at Villa Torreggiani

  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes1h 30m
    1h 30m
  • Italian
Language options: Italian
Starting time: 20:30
Price details
€20.00 x 1 Adult€20.00
Total
Price is €20.00
Until Fri, 19 Jun

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Guided visit led by a licensed tour guide
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Museum admission ticket.

Know before you book

  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

What you can expect

A journey through the darkest history of medicine, when aid on the battlefields was provided with courage, intuition, suffering, and practices that are almost inconceivable today: amputations without anesthesia, wounds cauterized with red-hot irons, extreme surgical procedures, bloodletting, leeches, cupping, and remedies based on ancient beliefs and deep-seated fears.

From the Roman Legions to the Second World War, through the Middle Ages, barber surgery, epidemics, trenches, and the first systems against asphyxiating gases, the route tells the storey of the evolution of first aid and military medicine: a storey of mistakes, atrocities, discoveries, and decisive progress.

Among disturbing remedies, surgical instruments, medical legends and testimonies from the front, the visit allows you to understand how long and dramatic the journey was that led to modern medicine and the very idea of humanitarian aid.

A fascinating and intense experience to discover the rawest, most surprising and often forgotten side of the history of medicine.

Duration of the tour: 90 minutes

Meeting point: In front of the Villa entrance, Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 45, 25086 Rezzato BS, Italy

All our guided visits are conducted by licensed tour guides

Please arrive 10 minutes before the start of the tour. The tours start on time, without delay.

Location

Activity location

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    • Brescia
    • Brescia, Lombardia, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 45, 25086 Rezzato BS, Italia | In front of the Villa entrance, Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 45, 25086 Rezzato BS, Italy
    • Rezzato, Lombardia, Italy