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Places to see in ( Pavia - Italy )
Pavia is a city south of Milan, in Italy. It’s known for the Certosa di Pavia, which is a Renaissance monastery complex, with sculptural and fresco decorations, north of town. In the city center, the centuries-old University of Pavia houses the University History Museum. It displays scientific and medical equipment dating as far back as the Middle Ages. The university’s botanic garden has roses and medicinal plants.
Founded by the Romans as a military garrison, Pavia has long been a strategic city both geographically and politically. It sits at the centre of an agricultural plain (hence its ugly periphery), it is an important provincial political player with strong Lega Nord leanings, and its university is considered one of the best in Italy, with previous alumni including explorer Christopher Columbus, physicist Alessandro Volta and poet and revolutionary Ugo Foscolo. Aside from its vibrant atmosphere (Instituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, IUSS, is a partner in over 300 international exchange programs), Pavia’s historic centre preserves a clutch of worthwhile sights including, to the north of the city, the fabulous Carthusian monastery Certosa di Pavia.
Pavia has retained many monuments from its glorious Medieval past, when it was regarded as the most important town in northern Italy. Among its splendid churches, the leading architectonic exemplars are its Cathedral, boasting one of the largest domes in Italy; and the Basilica di San Michele, a masterpiece of the Romanesque.
The tour continues with Visconti Castle, a square-plan building with four towers surrounded by a large moat, now home to the Civic Museums that hold relics from the Roman period, as well as sculptures from the Lombard era, and an art gallery. Another famous attraction is the covered bridge, a reproduction of a 13th-Century bridge destroyed during the Second World War; it leads to the Borgo Ticino, location of the Church of Santa Maria in Bethlehem.
Lying between Pavia and Milan is the Convent of Certosini, a monumental marble complex built in the 14th Century by Gian Galeazzo Visconti. The Certosa of Pavia, along with the church, was completed about a century later, and, to this day, is an oasis of calm and harmony graced by precious artworks. Its carved marble entrance gives visitors their first hint of the grandeur that characterizes this place. Inside, in fact, is the Palazzo Ducale, where noble guests were accommodated. The church's façade, overlooking a spacious courtyard, is also in marble.
In the Oltrepò area south of Pavia, we find a varied countryside, and then Voghera, with its ancient town center circled by avenues that replaced the old city walls. Inside this perimeter is the Visconti Castle and the Collegiate Church of San Lorenzo, circumscribed by arcades. Varzi, on the other hand, still maintains its Medieval quarter, with Palazzo Malaspina, the quadrangular tower and the Gothic-Romanesque Capuchin Church constructed in limestone. This quarter is accessible via two ancient Mangini and Clock Towers, added in the 18th Century.
The most important town in the Lomellina zone is Vigevano, embellished by the Piazza Ducale, a fine example of Renaissance architecture; it is based on a three-sided design with arcades and elegantly-painted facades, closed on the fourth side by the Baroque façade of the Cathedral.
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The Voghera's housewife | Italia Slow Tour
Our slow tour through the Oltrepò Pavese starts from Voghera! Voghera was an important stopover on the Salt Route that began in Genoa, and a very important stopover for pilgrims travelling to and from the Holy Land. But Voghera instantly evokes the image of the housewife of Voghera that has become an emblematic figure... But who is she? Watch the video!
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Italy Travel Guide | Certosa Di Pavia By Drone | HD Aerial Footage
The Certosa di Pavia is a monastery and complex in Lombardy, northern Italy, situated near a small town of the same name in the Province of Pavia, 8 km north of Pavia. Built in 1396-1495, it was once located on the border of a large hunting park belonging to the Visconti family of Milan, of which today only scattered parts remain. It is one of the largest monasteries in Italy.
Certosa is the Italian name for a house of the cloistered monastic order of Carthusians founded by St. Bruno in 1044 at Grande Chartreuse. Though the Carthusians in their early centuries were known for their seclusion and asceticism and the plainness of their architecture, the Certosa is renowned for the exuberance of its architecture, in both the Gothic and Renaissance styles, and for its collection of artworks which are particularly representative of the region. This video was shot with a DJI Inspire2 Drone with a Zenmuse X5S camera
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Art weekend in Milan style | Italia Slow Tour
Italia Slow Tour Ambassadors Svetlana (contributor of the Russian Magazine Sapog) and Chiara (contributor of the American Magazine ItaloAmericano Newspaper) spent a weekend in Milan, looking for some inspiration about fashion, art and design. You know, Milan is the place to be if you are fond of that! They visited some classical art places like Brera Gallery and some modern ones like Prada Foundation. Take a look and read their travel diaries on italiaslowtour.com
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PAVIA, Italy
Pavia, regione Lombardia, Italy.
Oramala Castle | Italia Slow Tour
The Oramala Castle is located between the Staffora Valley and the Nizza Valley, in the Oltrepò Pavese area. It dates back the 11th and 12th centuries, and it was conceived by the Malaspina family. But Oramala Castle was famous above all because this is where the Troubadours of Provençe came! Nowadays the castle is opened to visitors for very special events, every Sunday afternoon, from the end of April through to the end of October.
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Crespi d'Adda Historical sttlement Italy UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Crespi d'Adda is a historical settlement in Capriate San Gervasio, Lombardy, northern Italy. It is an outstanding example of the 19th and early 20th-century company towns built in Europe and North America by enlightened industrialists to meet the workers' needs. The site is still intact and is partly used for industrial purposes, although changing economic and social conditions now threaten its survival.[1] Since 1995 it has been on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites.
Castle of the Crespi Family
Cemetery of Crespi d'Adda
A factory worker's house with garden
In 1875 Cristoforo Benigno Crespi, a textile manufacturer from Busto Arsizio (Varese), bought the 1 km valley between the rivers Brembo and Adda, to the south of Capriate, with the intention of installing a cotton mill on the banks of the Adda.[2]
Cristoforo Crespi introduced the most modern spinning, weaving and finishing processes in his Cotton Mill.[3] The Hydroelectric power plant in Trezzo, on the Adda river just a few Km upwards, was built up around 1906 for the manufacturer Cristoforo Benigno Crespi.[4] The settlement which was built in 1878 next to the cotton-mill was a village, a residential area provided with social services such as a clinic, a school building, a theatre, a cemetery, a wash-house and a church.[5]
[6] [7] Both the town and the factory were illuminated thanks to electric light.[6] The village of Crespi d'Adda was the first village in Italy to have modern public lighting.[8] The workers houses, of English inspiration, are lined up in order along parallel roads to the East of the factory.[3] A tree-lined avenue separates the production zone from the houses, overlooking a chequer-board road plan.[9] The whole architecture and town planning (except the first spinning department, created by engineer Angelo Colla), was submitted to the architect Ernesto Pirovano. For about fifty years Pirovano, helped by the engineer Pietro Brunati, ran the construction of the village.[6]
In 1889 the son of Cristoforo, Silvio, started work in the factory as a director, after spending time in Oldham, England.[6] He turned away from the large multiple-occupancy blocks in favour of the single-family house, with its own garden, which he saw as conducive to harmony and a defence against industrial strife. He put this policy into practice in 1892 and the years that followed, with success, since there was no strike or other form of social disorder for the fifty years of Crespi management.
The great depression of 1929 and the harsh fascist fiscal policy resulted in the Crespi family being obliged to sell the entire town to STI, the Italian textile enterprise, which transferred it to the Rossarl e Varzi company in 1970. It then passed to the Legler company, which sold off most of the houses. It was last in the hands of the Polli industrial group, which employed some 600 people, as compared with the 3200 employed during the years of maximum activity.
Today the village is inhabited by a community largely descended from the original workers. The factory stopped production only in 2004, its field of activity throughout its working life having been cotton textile production.
Ferrera Erbognone, Italy
Ferrera Erbognone, provincia di Pavia, regione Lombardia, Italy; nella Lomellina.
Voghera castello Visconteo
il castello di Voghera con figuranti