Free Day in Milan, January 19th. Tour of Cremona.

Photos by David Sanders.

The Duomo in the Cremona Piazza.

The Bell Tower. It has the biggest astronomical clock in the world.

In the Piazza.

There's a legend that the design of the church is where Stradivari
​got his inspiration for his f-holes.

The tour guide Elena with CSO members Danny Lai, viola, Blair Milton and Aiko Noda, violins, and John Sharp and Richard Hirschl, cellos.

Stradivari statue. There's no real record of what he actually looks like, so there are many different images.

He was buried in the Church of San Domenico, but when the church was torn down the tomb was saved and moved to the end of the property where the church had been. There's no knowledge as to whether the body was saved.

Also a resident.

The plaque commemorating Stradivari's house that is still in existence. They know the house was one of two next to each other, and they think it is this one, but there's actually no records to prove it. It's just generally accepted as fact that this is the house.

A statue to Stradivari, which suffers from being vandalized