In Italy, Brescia is known as the Leonessa dItalia (Italian Lioness). The name was bestowed by Italian poet Giosuè Carducci in 1849, after the city rebelled against its Austrian conquerors and fought them for 10 bloody days before being forced to yield. (Its like “Remember the Alamo” for Americans).

Is Brescia Italy worth visiting?

Brescia is not as popular a tourist destination as the neighbouring cities of Verona and Vicenza but is equally worth visiting. Easily accessible by plane from the airports of Brescia, Verona, Milan and Bergamo, Brescia is somewhere you can visit for a weekend and see enough to enjoy the experience.