Italia Pavia 7 In giro per la città

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Pavia
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Once known as the city of 100 towers, Pavia today
has fine Romanesque and Medieval buildings, a
castle, and a vibrant historic center.
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Bianca Maria Visconti (1425 1468) was Duchess
of Milan from 1450 to 1468. In May 1448, when
Sforza was in Pavia, the Venetians attacked
Cremona. According to the chronicles, Bianca
Maria donned a suit of parade armor and, along
with some troops and the populace, hurried
towards the bridge that connected the city to
Pavia. She fought in the battle that ensued for
the whole day. This episode gained her fame as a
"warrior woman".
After the Venetian danger had been repulsed,
Bianca Maria settled in the Visconti Castle of
Pavia, together with a large court. Her good
relationships with her Visconti relatives gained
popular support, as well as loans and funds, for
the fragile new state created by her husband.
Domenico Veneziano (c. 1410 May 15, 1461)
Madonna and Child (Bianca Maria Visconti
) Berenson Collection, Florence
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The covered bridge (Ponte Coperto, Pontevecchio,
Ponte Ticino) The first bridge was built, as
Bishop Crispinuss Chronicle says, in the 2nd
century A. D. Then, on the bridges sides opened
up some shops and small workshops like those we
can still see on the Old Bridge in Florence.
Being damaged by the frequent floods, the bridge
was rebuilt starting from 1351 following Giovanni
da Ferrera and Jacopo da Cozzos plans.
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The covered bridge (Ponte Coperto, Pontevecchio,
Ponte Ticino) Some pillars from the Roman times
were reused and the beginning and the end of the
bridge were fortified with two towers with gates
and drawbridges. Only in the following years was
added its peculiar roof.
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The covered bridge and the laundress statue
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The covered bridge (Ponte Coperto, Ponte
Vecchio, Ponte Ticino) In the 18th century was
built a small chapel in its middle consecrated to
St. John Nepomuk that has become one of the
peculiar aspects of Pavias urban landscape.
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Heavily damaged by 1944 bombs the bridge was
demolished in 1948 and in its place was built a
new Covered Bridge slimmer and wider with a
concrete skeleton covered with bricks in order to
imitate the old shape
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Borgo Basso
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Saint Theodores ChurchIt was originally
dedicated to St. Agnes. When the body of St.
Theodore, Bishop of Pavia from 736 to 778, was
brought here, the church changed its name. As in
St. Peters the transepts plan does not exceed
the aisles and it stands out just for its
different shape and its higher vaults (the
octagonal dome is flanked by two barrel-vaults
following the Lombard style of Pavia
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Saint Theodores Church
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Saint Theodores Church
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Saint Theodores Church
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Saint Theodores Church
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The two frescoes in the first left span are
extremely interesting and were painted by
Bernardino Lanzani in 1522 just after the battle
between the French and the Spanish army to gain
control over the town. He pictured the whole town
from a great height with richness of details till
the nearby area around the Carthusian Monastery.
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Saint Theodores Church Frescoes On the
presbytery, made by the same painter (Bernardino
Lanzani), there are some stories about St. Agnes
(on the right)
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Saint Theodores Church Frescoes (1525)
attributed to the painter Bernardino Lanzani
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Saint Theodores Church Frescoes (1525)
attributed to the painter Bernardino Lanzani
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San Teodoro (1117), dedicated to Theodore of
Pavia, a medieval bishop of the Diocese of Pavia,
is the third romanesque basilica in the city,
though smaller than the former ones. It is
situated on the slopes leading down to the Ticino
river and served the fishermen.
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Saint Theodores Church
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Pavia - Cariatidi davanti a San Teodoro
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Santa Monica 1899
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Pavia - La facoltà agricola dell'università di
Pavia Orto botanico
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The Monastery of San Felice was one of the main
female Benedictine monasteries of Pavia, founded
since the Lombards, suppressed in the eighteenth
century. It currently houses the Faculty of
Economics and Business, University of Pavia with
the name of Palazzo San Felice
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Palazzo San Felice
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Palazzo San Felice
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Liceo classico Ugo Foscolo. Ugo Foscolo (1778
1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian
writer, revolutionary and poet
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It is an imposing brick building with a square
plan made by will of Galeazzo II Visconti between
1360 and 1365, presumably following architect
Bernardo da Venezias layout. In the east wing
Pasquino Capelli was walled up alive. He was Duke
Gian Galeazzo Viscontis first secretary and he
was accused of treason in 1398 after the defeat
of the Visconti army in Mantua. Pasquino Capelli
was sewn alive into an oxs skin still warm and
then walled up for twenty days till the skin
dried up and crushed him to death. After some
time Capelli was proved to be innocent.
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