Pavia Snapshot
In Pavia there is a plaque on a wall that remembers where Ugo Foscolo lived. 300 meters before, another remembers the house of Ada Negri, 5 minutes from the small factory that belonged to the Einstein family with Albert who went by bicycle on the banks of the Ticino.
Higher up lived Alessandro Volta, near the Cardano house. Going down towards the river, the basilica where Federico Barbarossa and Liutprando were crowned.
Just outside the walls, the small church built by Charlemagne, and to the north, outside the walls, the Repentina farmhouse where the French king Francis I, defeated in 1525, took refuge asking for food and the peasant woman put together egg and cheese broth inventing the famous Pavese soup. , but returning to the center you will find the church with the body of Sant'Agostino and the cathedral with the remains of San Siro, patron saint of the city of Severino Boezio. There is no longer the imperial palace of Theodoric and not even the mechanical equestrian statue as used in Byzantium, but we can suppose the square where the Edict of Rotari was issued ... and then again the house of Spallanzani ... the crypt of Sant'Eusebio ... the canal designed by Leonardo who lived in the city for some time, who knows what house ... and you realize that Pavia is not the classic provincial city, but an ancient capital, a failed metropolis, a city with 15 thousand university students out of less than 100 thousand inhabitants where they went to study or teach Rubbia, Pannella, Vecchioni, Tremonti, Foscolo, Volta, Forlanini, Golgi, Galvani, Nobel and inventors, who hurriedly passed in front of the entrance in Strada Nuova where there is is the ancient Vigoni pastry shop that invented the Paradiso and Margherita cake.
Beautiful to die for, mysterious and ancient, a noble lady who reluctantly does not let herself be discovered, but gradually walks through those foggy alleys that smell of burnt wood in the fireplaces and ancient red terracotta stones like the 100 very high towers to put ashamed Bologna
So beautiful that a little rain is enough to become so magical that, if you take two random photos among the streets with shiny cobblestones, she gives you unrepeatable images, she who for 200 years was the capital of the Longobard Kingdom and therefore of almost the whole peninsula. Her, that if you spend a winter evening there, you will never forget her, just like a beautiful woman.
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