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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.

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

The covered bridge (Ponte Coperto, Pontevecchio, Ponte Ticino) The first bridge was built, as Bishop Crispinus’s Chronicle says, in the 2nd century A. D. Then, on the bridge’s 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 Cozzo’s plans.

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.

The covered bridge and the laundress statue

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 Pavia’s urban landscape.

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

Borgo Basso

Saint Theodore’s 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. Peter’s the transept’s 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

Saint Theodore’s Church

Saint Theodore’s Church

Saint Theodore’s Church

Saint Theodore’s Church

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.

Saint Theodore’s ChurchFrescoes

On the presbytery, made by the same painter (Bernardino Lanzani), there are some stories about St. Agnes (on the right)

Saint Theodore’s ChurchFrescoes (1525) attributed to the painter Bernardino Lanzani

Saint Theodore’s ChurchFrescoes (1525) attributed to the painter Bernardino Lanzani

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.

Saint Theodore’s Church

Pavia - Cariatidi davanti a San Teodoro

Santa Monica 1899

Pavia - La facoltà agricola dell'università di PaviaOrto botanico

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

Palazzo San Felice

Palazzo San Felice

Liceo classico Ugo Foscolo. Ugo Foscolo (1778 –1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, revolutionary and poet

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 Venezia’s layout. In the east wing Pasquino Capelli was walled up alive. He was Duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti’s 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 ox’s 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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