{"id":127221,"date":"2026-06-05T11:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/?p=127221"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:15:05","slug":"scaligero-castle-30-special-openings-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/scaligero-castle-30-special-openings-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaligero Castle: 30 special openings in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"editor-img alignnone wp-image-70689 size-large\" title=\"8x2-castello-sirmione-vista-aerea-luglio-2023\" src=\"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/8x2-castello-sirmione-vista-aerea-luglio-2023-826x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"826\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/8x2-castello-sirmione-vista-aerea-luglio-2023-826x207.jpg 826w, https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/8x2-castello-sirmione-vista-aerea-luglio-2023-568x142.jpg 568w, https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/8x2-castello-sirmione-vista-aerea-luglio-2023-374x94.jpg 374w, https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/8x2-castello-sirmione-vista-aerea-luglio-2023-794x199.jpg 794w, https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/8x2-castello-sirmione-vista-aerea-luglio-2023.jpg 1248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Municipality of Sirmione<\/strong>, in collaboration with the <strong>Direzione regionale Musei Lombardia<\/strong> and the Sirmione Hotel and Restaurateur Consortium (<strong>CARS<\/strong>), has developed a major enhancement program for the Scaligero Castle. Thanks to this sponsorship agreement, valid until December 31, 2026, <strong>30 special opening hours<\/strong> will be available, allowing visitors to visit the fortress at times and on days usually closed.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative aims to make the Castle even more accessible to the local community and visitors, offering new opportunities to discover one of Lake Garda&#8217;s most iconic monuments through holiday afternoon openings and charming evening openings.<\/p>\n<h3>Opening Hours and Schedule<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Holiday Afternoon Openings (1:30 PM \u2013 7:30 PM)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Mainly Sundays and national holidays<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>June:<\/strong> 2 (Republic Day), 7, 14, 21, 28<\/li>\n<li><strong>July:<\/strong> 5, 12, 19, 26<\/li>\n<li><strong>August:<\/strong> 2, 9, 15 (Ferragosto), 16, 23, 30<\/li>\n<li><strong>September:<\/strong> 6, 13, 20, 27<\/li>\n<li><strong>October:<\/strong> 4, 11, 18, 25<\/li>\n<li><strong>November:<\/strong> 1<span class=\"ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"912\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"912\"><strong>Special Evening Openings (7:30 PM \u2013 11:30 PM)<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"912\"><strong>July<\/strong>: 12, 13, and 16 <em>(in conjunction with the Garda Lake Music Festival)<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"992\"><strong>Openings for Cultural Events<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>June 19<\/strong>: Evening opening from <strong>7:15 PM to 11:15 PM<\/strong> for the &#8220;Magnificat&#8221; show<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"paragraph normal ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"1075\">\n<p>Some of the special openings listed above coincide with days when admission is <strong>free for everyone<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every <strong>first Sunday of the month<\/strong> (June 7, July 5, August 2, September 6, October 4, December 6)<\/li>\n<li><strong>June 2nd<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>April 25, June 2, November 4, and November 1 are also free, although not all of them include special afternoon openings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museiitaliani.it\/musei\/aed5f18d-e6f3-40f3-9c69-3b699d974906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Scaligero Castle website with complete opening hours and ticket prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026064-Castello-Scaligero-30-aperture-straordinarie-CS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Scaliger Castle: 30 special openings in 2026: the press release<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"editor-img alignnone wp-image-70687 size-large\" title=\"8x5-castello-sirmione-vista-aerea-luglio-2023\" src=\"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/8x5-castello-sirmione-vista-aerea-luglio-2023-826x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"826\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/8x5-castello-sirmione-vista-aerea-luglio-2023-826x516.jpg 826w, https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/8x5-castello-sirmione-vista-aerea-luglio-2023-568x355.jpg 568w, https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/8x5-castello-sirmione-vista-aerea-luglio-2023-374x234.jpg 374w, https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/8x5-castello-sirmione-vista-aerea-luglio-2023-794x496.jpg 794w, https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/8x5-castello-sirmione-vista-aerea-luglio-2023.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Municipality of Sirmione, in collaboration with the Direzione regionale Musei Lombardia and the Sirmione Hotel and Restaurateur Consortium (CARS), has developed a major enhancement program for the Scaligero Castle. Thanks to this sponsorship agreement, valid until December 31, 2026, 30 special opening hours will be available, allowing visitors to visit the fortress at times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","liste-castello-e-grotte"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127225,"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127221\/revisions\/127225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}