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Pavia
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Dating back over 2,000 years, the city of Pavia
(pop. 71,000) served as the capital of Lombard
and Carolingian Empires from ca. 600AD - 1100AD.
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The construction (presently still unfinished in
some minor details) of The Cathedral of Pavia was
begun in the 15th century on the site of two
pre-existing Romanesque cathedrals (Santo Stefano
and Santa Maria del Popolo). The cathedral houses
the remains of St. Sirus, first bishop of Pavia
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The cathedral was begun in 1488 under architect
Cristoforo Rocchi, soon replaced by Giovanni
Antonio Amadeo and Gian Giacomo Dolcebuono
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The original project, with a nave and two aisles
flanked by semicircular niches and a large
central dome, was influenced by Bramante, some
details of it later appearing in St. Peter's
Basilica in Rome. Also Leonardo da Vinci is known
to have contributed to the project
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The central dome, with an octagonal plan, is 97 m
tall. It is the fourth in Italy in size, after
St. Peter's, the Pantheon and Florence Cathedral.
The Cathedral houses the Christ Crown's Thorns
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On the background the majestic octagonal dome of
Pavia's Cathedral. In close up the Broletto
Palace, the oldest in all Lombardy, which was in
the middle age the symbol of the municipal
independence. Next to the cathedral was the
Civic Tower (La Torre Civica)
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Next to the cathedral was the Civic Tower (Torre
Civica), known in 1330 and enlarged in 1583,
which collapsed on March 17 1989, killing several
people. Both Broletto and the Civic Tower were
for more than a thousand years the symbol of the
autonomy and authority of the Free Commune. The
former as the seat of the powers, of the election
meetings and sometimes of the Notaries and
Merchants Corporations the latter, symbol built
toward the sky to call and gather the people with
the sound of its bells and to reassert the
Communes power just beside the Cathedral
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The Broletto Palace and Pavia's Cathedral It is
a composition that cannot be conceived separately
even if between the two monuments there is a
distance of several metres. The Broletto is the
oldest building in Lombardy belonging to the
Commune Age. Its name comes from Brolio that is
the area in which the people of a Free Commune
used to gather. For almost a thousand years it
has been the heart of Pavia
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Palazzo del Broletto
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The Regisole ("Sun King") was a bronze classical
or Late Antique equestrian monument, highly
influential during the Italian Renaissance but
destroyed in 1796
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The Regisole ("Sun King") was originally erected
at Ravenna, but was removed to Pavia in the
Middle Ages, where it stood on a column before
the cathedral, as an emblem of communal pride and
Pavia's deep connection with imperial Rome
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According to different modern scholars the
subject was possibly Theodoric the Great, King of
the Ostrogoths (reigned 471-526), or it was
"probably a Roman work of the third century AD",
or "possibly Septimius Severus, with several
later modifications" (he was emperor 193-211)
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After the French Revolution, the Regisole was
destroyed by the Jacobin Club in Pavia in 1796,
since it was considered a symbol of monarchy. In
1937 sculptor Francesco Messina was entrusted
with the execution of a copy, according to
ancient reproductions. The new Regisole, a
6-meter high bronze statue placed on a base of
travertine, was relocated to the front of the
Cathedral of Pavia and solemnly inaugurated on
December 8, 1937. The most recent monograph of
its history is Cesare Saletti, Il Regisole di
Pavia, 1997
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La Cupola Arnaboldi (1882) Corso
Mazzini Arnaboldi Gallery was built by the Mayor
of Pavia, count Bernardo Arnaboldi Cazzaniga,
between 1880 and 1882, perhaps inspired by the
magnificent Gallery of Milan in 1867
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Arnaboldi Gallery in Pavia was place for
commercial and agricultural trading and was also
known as the indoor market
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Arnaboldi Gallery is composed of a single central
octagonal room, covered by a glass and iron Dome,
two short tunnels for entrance and exit and a
portico to the square of linen
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"Piazza della Vittoria" (Victory Square) in the
hearth of Pavia, is about 700 years old
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Piazza della Vittoria Pavia
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Piazza della Vittoria Pavia Victory Square
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Fresco Chiesa di S.Teodoro
The walls and the bastions were demolished
between the end of the last century and the
beginning of the present one. Some parts of them
can still be seen All that remained of the huge
medieval fortifications of the famous battle
between King Francis I of France and the German
emperor Charles V. The Battle of Pavia, fought on
the morning of 24 February 1525, was the decisive
engagement of the Italian War of 152126
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Pomegranate (Punica granatum)
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The monument to the Cairoli family, heroes during
the Risorgimento Dedicato dalla Patria 1900
Opera dello scultore Enrico Cassi Piazza del
lino
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Palazzo Mezzabarba the Town Hall The residence of
Mezzabarba Counts was planned following the Late
Baroque style (Rococò) by architect Giovanni
Antonio Veneroni in the years 1728-1730 and it
became seat of the Town Hall in 1875
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The statue of Augustus Caesar in Town Hall Square
is a replica of the original statue that depicts
Caesar Octavian, later called Augustus Caesar,
born in 63 BC and died in A.D. 14 in Nola near
Naples
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From the entrance and the hall rich in columns,
it is possible to reach the hall on the first
floor (presently the Council Hall) painted with
mythological themes by Giovanni Antonio Borroni
from Cremona. Some other halls still preserve
painted decorations and sometimes curious pieces
of furniture
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The statue that we admire in Piazza Municipio is
cast in bronze and is perfect in every detail.
It was donated to the Municipality of Pavia in
1936 by the Head of the Government at the time,
Benito Mussolini during his visit to Pavia to
usher in the new City Hall and the Imperial
Bridge just been completed
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Orto Botanico
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Teatro Fraschini
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San Michele Maggiore can be considered the
prototype of other important medieval churches in
Pavia such as San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro and San
Teodoro
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Basilica di San Michele Maggiore, striking
example of Lombard-Romanesque style
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The church of the Franciscan Preaching Friars was
begun in 1228 and ended in 1298. The apse, shaped
as a Greek cross, is built on five large spans
covered by pointed arches cross-vaults. The long
nave has a wooden truss roof. The building
material is terracotta bricks like other churches
in Pavia
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San Francesco Il Gotico lombardo
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San Francesco Il Gotico lombardo Piazza San
Francesco d'Assisi
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Parco dei bersaglieri
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Parco dei bersaglieri Garibaldi and the
Resorgimento monument (by Egidio Pozzi di
Milano) Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807 1882) was an
Italian general and politician. He is considered,
with Camillo Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II and
Giuseppe Mazzini, as one of Italy's "fathers of
the fatherland"
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