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Municipality of Brescia

Brescia (Brescia Brès in dialect), nicknamed the "Lioness of Italy" because of participation in the Risorgimento, the Italian national, is a city of 191,618 inhabitants in northern Italy, capital of the province of Lombardy.
Monuments
Piazza della Loggia
Old Cathedral
New Cathedral, to the left you can glimpse the tower Broletto
The Capitol
Lapidary of Capitolium
Castello di Brescia
Via Umberto I and the headquarters of Posts and Telegraphs - Late Roman period around '10 [edit]
The square of the Forum is the most important complex of Roman ruins with the whole of Lombardy, with the impressive ruins of the Capitol, the adjacent theater, the Forum itself and a little further south, in Piazzetta Labus, the remains of the Basilica, whose architectural elements of the Flavian age are still visible in the façades of old houses built on the ruins themselves;

Medieval

Castello di Brescia, an ancient fortress town built at the beginning of 1200, but that was the site of worship since the age of bronze;
The monastery of San Salvatore and Santa Giulia: the church of San Salvatore is an example of the Lombards in northern Italy, the complex also houses the Museum of the city, within which you can find many works of art Brescia's history, including the Winged Victory and the Cross of Desire. The monastery was, according to tradition, the refuge of Ermengarde, daughter of the Lombard king Desiderius repudiated by Charlemagne, which is why it is also setting dell'Adelchi Alessandro Manzoni. The whole site is part of the serial "Langobardorum Italy. Centers of power and worship (568-774 AD), including seven places full of architectural, sculptural and pictorial art Lombard, whose candidacy for the list of assets 'Humanity has been accepted by UNESCO in March 2008

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