Italia Pavia 8 Town of art, cradle of culture

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Pavia
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A small city with a charming and well preserved
historic centre by the banks of the Ticino River,
Pavia is less than half-an-hour by train from
Milan. Pavia hosts the largest college system in
Italy, comprising 15 colleges (two of them dating
from the 16th century)
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The historic branch of the University of Pavia is
an ample complex composed of buildings and
courts it extends in the north eastern area of
the city centre and occupies many blocks. The
principle prospect, of neoclassic forms, faces
the Corso Strada Nuova, supporting axle of the
historic centre, and corresponds with antique
cardo of the roman city. The university is one
of the most antique and prestigious in Europe,
where all of the most important faculties are
offered and is attended by students from every
part of the world
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Pavia - University (Main Entrance) On the sides
of the main entrance are portraits of the
founder, Galeazzo Secondo Visconti, and of the
king of Italy Lotario who, in the 9th century,
established the Pavese Studium, forerunner of the
university. In Pavia, in fact, lives an antique
cultural tradition that has roots in the era in
which the city was the capital of the Longobardo
reign
Pavia - University (Main Entrance) On the sides
of the main entrance are portraits of the
founder, Galeazzo Secondo Visconti, and of the
king of Italy Lotario who, in the 9th century,
established the Pavese Studium, forerunner of the
university. In Pavia, in fact, lives an antique
cultural tradition that has roots in the era in
which the city was the capital of the Longobardo
reign
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Pavia - Cortile Università
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Pavias university is one of the oldest and most
famous in Europe. Throughout its history, the
university has benefited from the presence of the
physicist Alessandro Volta (Pavia chair of
natural philosophy 1769-1804), the poet Ugo
Foscolo (chair of Italian eloquence 1809-10), and
the physician Camillo Golgi (at Pavia from 1861).
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Aula Volta
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The University of Pavia's Aula Magna
Aula Magna
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The funeral gravestones of the first twelve
docents of the Studium, that today can be seen
walled under the portico of the Volta courtyard,
well illustrate how the lessons were carried out
during the first centuries of life of the
university. The docents sitting in their richly
decorated posts, bestowed the teachings to the
students, that instead were seated on simple
benches. Learning was thereby only entrusted in
concentration and memory
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University of Pavia Alessandro Volta inventor
of the battery
University of Pavia Camillo Golgi
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University of Pavia statues courtyard
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An edict issued by the Frankish king of Italy
Lothar I (ruled 818-55) mentions the existence of
a higher education institution at Pavia as early
as AD 825. This institution, mainly devoted to
ecclesiastical and civil law as well as to
divinity studies, was then selected as the prime
educational centre for northern Italy. Officially
established as a studium generale by the Holy
Roman emperor Charles IV (r. 1355-78) in 1361,
the institution was enlarged and renovated by the
duke of Milan, Gian Galeazzo Visconti (ruled
1385-1402), becoming the Duchy's sole university.
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A number of renowned scholars have taught at the
Alma Ticinensis Universitas, including the
inventor of the electric cell, Alessandro Volta,
the poet Ugo Foscolo and Nobel Laureates Camillo
Golgi, Giulio Natta and Carlo Rubbia
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The University of Pavia (Italian Università
degli Studi di Pavia, UNIPV) is a university
located in Pavia. It was founded in 1361 and has
nine faculties you are in the so-called medical
courtyard
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In 1997, were established the IUSS, which is an
Higher Learning Institution (in Italian,
"Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori"). The
IUSS is the federal body that links the 5
colleges of Pavia which constitute the Pavia
University System. University of Pavia
Biblioteca
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The Visconti Castle, which was built for Gian
Galeazzo Visconti
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The northern side of the castle with its two
towers was destroyed by the artillery of Francis
I in 1527. The three still existing wings show
several kinds of windows in the first floor
loggia looking onto the inner yard and they refer
back to the restorations made during the first
century of life of the building. In the castle
there was also a large library with miniated
codexes and some Petrarchs manuscripts and an
astronomic clock showing the motion of all known
planets.
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The great Italian poet Francesco Petrarca worked
here he was called by Gian Galeazzo Visconti to
take care of his library
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Sala Azzurra
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the Renaissance wooden model of the Cathedral as
it was originally designed.
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The City Museums of Pavia since 1950 have been
accommodated in the Visconti Castle 19th
century paintings section, Morone donation
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Federico Zandomeneghi (Italian, 1841-1917)
Reflection
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Plinio Nomellini, Lucilla (La Ninina), 1881-1889
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Tranquillo Cremona (1837 1878) Portrait of
Nicola Massa
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Sole di bronzo
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Scuderie del Castello Visconteo
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The Romanesque reliefs collection is particularly
remarkable as it comes from the no more existing
churches.
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