37 Facts About Pavia

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Pavia is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, 35 kilometres south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po.

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Pavia is the capital of the fertile province of Pavia, which is known for a variety of agricultural products, including wine, rice, cereals, and dairy products.

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Pavia is the episcopal seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Pavia.

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The municipality of Pavia is part of the Ticino Valley Natural Park and preserves two forests that they show us the original state of the nature of the Po valley before the arrival of the Romans, before human settlement.

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In Roman times Pavia was called Ticinum, and it began to be called Papia only since Lombard times.

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Pavia was important as a Military site because of the easy access to water communications up to the Adriatic Sea and because of its defence structures.

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Pavia was the seat of an important Roman mint between 273 and 326.

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Pavia was among several cities that Theodoric chose to restore and expand.

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Pavia began the construction of the vast palace complex that would eventually become the residence of Lombard monarchs several decades later.

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Pavia played an important role in the war between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ostrogoths that began in 535.

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Since 540 Pavia become the permanent capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom, stable site of the court and the royal treausure.

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The resilience of Ostrogoth strongholds like Pavia against invading forces allowed pockets of Ostrogothic rule to limp along until finally being defeated in 561.

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The city of Pavia played a key role in the war between the Lombard Kingdom of Pavia and the Franks led by Charlemagne.

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Pavia had been the official capital of the Lombards since the 620s, but it was the place upon where the Lombard Kingdom in Italy ended.

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Pavia remained the capital of the Italian Kingdom and the centre of royal coronations until the diminution of imperial authority there in the 12th century.

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In 1004, Holy Roman Emperor Henry II bloodily suppressed a revolt of the citizens of Pavia, who disputed his recent coronation as King of Italy.

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Several times the Pavia army fought with the emperor against the forces of the Lombard League, participating in the sieges of Tortona, Crema and Milan and in other military operations.

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Pavia supported the emperor Frederick II against the Lombard League and the Pavese army took part in numerous operations in the service of the emperor and participated in the battle of Cortenuova in 1237.

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The Jewish community of Pavia grew in the 15th century, when Elijah ben Shabbetai, personal doctor of Filippo Maria Visconti and professor at the University of Pavia and, above all, Joseph Colon Trabotto, who was a 15th-century rabbi who is considered Italy's foremost Judaic scholar and Talmudist of his era, and in the same university a Hebrew course was activated in 1490.

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Also in the fifteenth century, by the will of the Dukes of Milan, the University of Pavia experienced a phase of great development: it began to attract students from both Italy and other European countries and taught teachers of great fame, such as Baldo degli Ubaldi, Lorenzo Valla or Giasone del Maino.

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Battle of Pavia marked a watershed in the city's fortunes, since by that time, the former schism between the supporters of the Pope and those of the Holy Roman Emperor had shifted to one between a French party and a party supporting the Emperor and King of Spain Charles V Thus, during the Valois-Habsburg Italian Wars, Pavia was naturally on the Imperial side.

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The Spanish period ended in 1706, when Pavia was occupied, after a short siege, by the Austrians led by Wirich Philipp von Daun during the War of the Spanish Succession and the city remained Austrian until 1796, when it was occupied by the French army under Napoleon.

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In 1796, after the Jacobins demolished Regisole, the inhabitants of Pavia revolted against the French and the revolt was quelled by Napoleon after a furious urban fight.

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In 1894 Albert Einstein's father moved to Pavia to start a business supplying electrical materials, the Einstein.

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Symbols of Pavia are the coat of arms, the banner and the seal, as reported in the municipal statute.

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Pavia municipality falls in the orographic system of the Po River valley formed afther the alluvial filling of the wide of the gulf occupied by the Adriatic Sea before the Quaternary.

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Fluvial terrace on which Pavia stands appears engraved by two deep furrows due to the erosive action of two postglacial rivers, represented today by the Navigliaccio and by the Vernavola.

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Pavia possesses a remarkable artistic treasure, a legacy of the city's prestigious past, divided into several museums.

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University's museum network is very vast, consisting of the University History Museum of the University of Pavia, divided between the Section of Medicine, where anatomical and pathological preparations, surgical instruments are exhibited and life-size anatomical waxes, made by the Florentine ceroplast Clemente Susini and the Physics Section which houses the physics cabinet of Alessandro Volta .

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Alongside meat dishes, Pavia cuisine is characterized by numerous freshwater fish dishes, such as eel alla borghigiana, trout in white wine and omelette with bleak, without forgetting the frogs, inserted in risotto or served in stew, and snails, cooked with porcini mushrooms.

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Municipality of Pavia is part of the Ticino Valley Natural Park and preserves two forests that they show us the original state of the nature of the Po valley before the arrival of the Romans, before human settlement.

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Pavia is a major Italian college town, with several institutes, universities and academies, including the ancient University of Pavia.

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The Province of Pavia alone produces as much rice as the entirety of Spain.

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Still within the territory of the municipality of Pavia, there are still around fifty farms destined for agricultural activity, 18 of which host cattle farms, where about 820 heads are raised.

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Pavia railway station, opened in 1862, forms part of the Milan–Genoa railway, and is a terminus of four secondary railways, linking Pavia with Alessandria, Mantua, Vercelli and Stradella.

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Pavia is connected to Milan through the S13 line of the Milan suburban railway service with trains every 30 minutes.

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Pavia P Garibaldi is a small railway station on the Pavia–Mantua railway.

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