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History Lombardy: Historical hints

In Lombardy poor tracks of Paleolithic settlements, remain while they turn out well-documented civilizations of the mesolitico (Valcamonica,) of the Neolithic (Piadena Vho) and of the ages of the bronze and the iron. From 1200 to. C. developed the culture of Golasecca, that survived up to cocks' insubri to what one owes Mediolanum foundation invasion. Busy by Romans, he was shared out by August between the areas Venetia, Transpadane and Emilia et Liguria, and you blossommed by importing municipalities.

In the sec. III Milan was high to capital of Italy. Was busy give longobard (568) that they built Pavia to capital of the Kingdom and you give Carolingian (774.) In the sec. XIII, the Viscounts, Mr. in Milan, gave life to a state that was crossing the present borders of the area, by also englobing part of Piedmont, Liguria, Emilia, Venetian and Canton Ticino. In the sec. XVII was a demographic crisis (plague) and economic (agricultural and manufacturing) what took to important reforms that supported the agricultural progress and the formation of an entrepreneurial middle classes.

The economic development went on in epoch Napoleonic, when Milan went back to his ancient role of capital, that kept hips after 1815, with the formation of the Lombard kingdom Venetian.

bergamo

Characteristic of this town is his division in two childbirths distinguished well: And surrounded by walls, that Low and, modern and placed in plain High, ancient one. We can visit S. Alessandro church of the Cross, the church of S. Bernardino, that of spirit S., that of S. Benedetto, the headed cathedral to S. Alessandro, and S. Maria Maggiore church. Indoors of the chapel Colleoni one can also see, besides the tombs of the Colleoni and the daughter Medea, some frescos of the Tiepolo. Some interesting buildings are palace Carrara, that lodges the picture-gallery Academy Carrara, the theatre Donizetti given it of August S. with adjacent the ex homonymous monastery. To also visit the park of the Remembrances, the museum of the Revival and the Resistance, the palace of the Reason and the palace of the Mercy where the museum donizettiano has place of business. Macaw Other very important museums what Civic and Archaeological and Civic of Natural Sciences, one find it indoors of the citadel. Macaw Numerous and interesting little centers to visit in the neighbours.

brescia

Brescia owes his name to the Romans, that called her Brixia, and built a theatre, a basilica, the Capitoline Temple and other. But the history in Brescia does not stop with Romans: Become longobard dukedom, and then common free, the town got rich, for all the Middle Ages, of extraordinary monuments. Between the most interesting ones mention the Cathedral, S. Nazzaro church with an interesting polyptych of Tiziano Vercellio, the Early Christian Museum, the Picture-gallery with paintings of Raphael, pretty, Lot pretty and pretty Dyer and the Museum Roman that preserves the statue in bronze of the Winged Victory.

como

Como preserved the appearance of his medieval center, for centuries, enriching and surrounding him with the splendid villas and the big parks destinies in town between the' 700 and l'' 800. The plant of the center still respects the fabric to chessboard of the Roman castrum. Already in the Middle Ages the town was well known for the production of the fabrics of wool, and from '500 for the weaving of splendid silks.

cremona

This town, province chief town some Lombardy, was well grounded in Roman age near the left bank of the river Po and preserves medieval and Reinassance numerous and important monuments. Between Middle Ages and Renaissance big Cream knew a season of artistic big fervour, that the center enriched of churches and palaces and the birth saw some famous shops of liuteria, those of the large creators of violins as Stradivari and Guarnieri some Jesus (sec. XVIII). Between cult buildings we can mention the church of S.Agata, the church of S.Agostino, of S. Pietro at Po, of S.Michele of the cathedral, that is one of the majors building examples Romanesque Lombard. Between the palaces they are to mention palace Raimondi where the international school of liuteria, palace of the Art, that lodges the civic museum and natural history, palace Affaitati, the palace of the council, palace Fodri and Cittanova palace has place of business.

lecco

The center of the town and the roads one push up to lungolago kept the structure, to porches covered and with little squares, of the small town nineteenth-century, which one insert a few more ancient buildings, on as the palace Belgioioso (sec. XVIII). In one of these neo-classical, now changed in museum, spent the childhood Alessandro elegant palaces big Steers.

lodi

The town is born in the Middle Ages along the right bank of the Adda. The ancient Laus Nova was founded by Federico Barbarossa, that in the 1158 he gave to the lodigiani the grounds where to build a new town, after the ancient Laus Pompeia had been destroyed by Milaneses. Can visit the municipal palace, the Cathedral and the churches some Crowned and of San Francesco. In San Filippo eighteenth-century convent one can visit the Library Laudense and the Museum Civic, where are gathered material of the zona of the Roman and pre-Roman epoch.

mantua

Mantua, placed in the Low Po, on the bank right of the river Mincio is rich of treasures. Every road of his more ancient core keeps powerful Gonzaga, that gave her palaces splendidly decorated by teachers as Andrea Mantegna and Roman Giulio's tracks.

milan

Milan, province of Lombardy, chief town also being a modern town with industrial and commercial, huge activities contains a remarkable amount of artistic monuments. In fact, besides bas soma the capital financial and one economic Italy cultural and historical, ba his wealth given it to in flat primissimo. The famous and well-known more between the monuments than cult is certainly the Cathedral of Gothic style with his high spires, low reliefs and glass windows. Macaw Other valuable monuments: The Greater Monastery, basilica The of S. Ambrogio, the church of the Graces, S.Eustorgio, Greater S. Lorenzo, S.Carlo and S.Celso. Between the palaces mention: Sea palace, the Real ex Palace, soma the Palace Ambrosian, the palace Moriggia, the archbishopric and the palace Poldi Pezzoli. Macaw Other famous monuments: The Castle Of The Sforza, seat of the artistic museums, the palace of Brera, where one finds the academy, the Theatre of the scale and the Tunnel Vittorio Emanuele II. also Remember the Tunnel of modern art, the Museum of the science and the technique and the theatrical Museum with the collection verdiana.

pavia

For centuries the ancient Ticinum, well grounded town you give Ligurians and give Celti, he engaged a position strategic for the control of the commerces between the plain and the big rivers. During the Roman period, one were joining two consular roads, and here for all the Middle Ages the spices and the fabrics imported from the Venetian merchants were arriving. From here the goods they could then arrive in Milan, by passing monastery Reinassance that is the Charterhouse in Pavia alongside of that wonderful. The town preserved the tracks of a medieval splendid past, in the churches, the streets and the façades of the houses in his old city centre. Between his more interesting monuments can mention San Pietro golden, basilica in Ciel, the Castle Visconteo, the palace of the University, the church of Holy Maria some small Poems small, the cathedral, the church of S. Teodoro, of S. Maria in Bethlehem and the college Borromeo.

sondrio

The appearance of the town center is not more medieval, but nineteenth-century seven: One of more ancient buildings is the Palace Pretorio, he goes up again to the sec. XVI, and is opened by an elegant portal. The collegiata some Ss. Gervasio and Protasio, on the same square, came well grounded in the sec. XII, but plus times rebuilt.

varese

Even if one is of the provinces more industrialized of Italy, the town has can keep a green and painstaking, appearance, rich of gardens and magnificent villas of thin' 800. Little stays some parts more ancient than the center: Besides some makes palaces, between which happy the noble Palazzo Rolled-out, the neo-classical basilica of S. Vittore, built to leave from '500 on pre-existent one Romanesque church, and the baptistery of S. Giovanni Battista, raised between the secc. XII and XIII, what has a majestic in his inside baptismal source (sec. XIV).

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