Pavia is an important city in Lombardy and has about 71,500 inhabitants.
It is mainly a tourist city, where the industrial vocation is low.
Pavia is a city rich in monuments which recall of its important past.
There are numerous churches and basilicas, as San Michele Maggiore and the, completed only at the end of the XIX Century, according to the original XVI Century projects.
Another important place of worship in the city is San Pietro in Ciel.
The Visconti, built in 1350 by about Gian Galeazzo Visconti, houses inside the civic collections, and in ancient times its immense park reached the Certosa di Pavia.
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