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The castle of Pavia was built in 1360 by Galeazzo II Visconti. In the past it had got a very wide park that arrived to the Certosa di Pavia. In the castle there is the Pinacoteca Malaspina.
Written Oct 25, 2006
Address: Piazza Castello
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The church of Santa Maria del Carmine is a wonderful example of North Italian gothic made with red bricks. It was built in 1273 and it is the second biggest church of the town after the Duomo. The interior has got three naves.
Written Oct 25, 2006
Address: Piazza Pianizza
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Pavia was known as the town of 1000 towers. Today you can see only three of them. They are very high and thiner than the ones of San Gimignano.
In the town there are some other tower but they are small because after the death of the owner they were cut!!
Updated Oct 25, 2006
Address: Piazza Leonardo da Vinci
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The university of Pavia was founded in 1361 by Galeazzo II. The buildings of the university was built by Ludovico il Moro in 1490. In the library there are some ashes of Cristoforo Colombo who studied in Pavia.
In this place Alessandro Volta made some elettricity experiments.
Written Oct 25, 2006
Address: Piazza Leonardo da Vinci
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The covered bridge of Pavia is one of the bridges over the Ticino River. The Ponte Coperto was built between 1351 and 1354. It was destroyed during the second world war, and what you see now is a copy of the original one built in 1950.
Written Oct 25, 2006
Address: Borgo Ticino
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The Duomo is most important church of Pavia. The work for its construction began in 1488, and the structure was incomplete until 1898, when the facade and the cupola was finished on the original designer made by Giovanni Antonio Amedeo. The central cupola is 97 meters high and it it the third biggest cupola of Italy.
The interior is under restoration today.
Written Oct 25, 2006
Address: Piazza del Duomo
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I tried to count them - there're more than 7 definitely! And all are built in longobardo style with "quadratic" cross on the top of the entrance.
In one of them, the basicilica of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro you can find the rests of Saint Augustin.
Updated Apr 6, 2006
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do you know what means "lavoro certosino"? A very carefully and with big attention done work. Like the work of monks who lived in the monastery of Certosa di Pavia.
It's some km north to Pavia on the way to Milan. Really worth visiting.
Entrance and guided tours are free.
Written Apr 6, 2006
Website: http://www.comune.certosa.pv.it/
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A nice castle remembering the duke Visconti period in Pavia. There are some permanent exhibitions there and time to time they make some temporary exhibitions of photography and various visual arts in the old stables of the castle.
Written Apr 4, 2006
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That's a monument on the another bank of Ticino river for all the women who used to wash the clothes on the river at the beginning of this century (or maybe even earlier). If you're lucky to be followed by some local Pavese who understands the old Pavese dialect, maybe you will get a translation of the poem written on the monument.
Written Apr 4, 2006
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