A report on Northern Italy, Veneto and Lombards

Lombard possessions in Italy: the Lombard Kingdom (Neustria, Austria and Tuscia) and the Lombard Duchies of Spoleto and Benevento

Distribution of Langobardic burial fields at the Lower Elbe Lands (according to W. Wegewitz)

Ancient peoples of Northern Italy, with Celtic peoples shown in blue.

Venice, the primary tourist destination and the capital of Veneto

Migration of the Lombards towards Northern Italy

Lombard grave goods (6th-7th century), Milan, Lombardy

Member cities of the first and second Lombard League.

Plutei of Theodota, mid 8th century, Civic Museums of Pavia.

The Frankish Merovingian King Chlothar II in combat with the Lombards

The Iron Crown of Lombardy, for centuries a symbol of the Kings of Italy

King Liutprand (712-744) "was a zealous Catholic, generous and a great founder of monasteries"

Anti-Fascist Partisans in the streets of Bologna after the general insurrection of April 1945

Lombard Duchy of Benevento in the eighth century

The Alps in Val Maira, Province of Cuneo

Italy around the turn of the millennium, showing the Lombard states in the south on the eve of the arrival of the Normans.

Farming landscape in the Po Plain at Sant'Agata Bolognese

The Tetrarchs were the four co-rulers who governed the Roman Empire as long as Diocletian's reform lasted. Here they are portrayed embracing, in a posture of harmony, in a porphyry sculpture dating from the 4th century, produced in Anatolia, located today on a corner of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

The West-Germanic languages around the sixth century CE

Alpine lakes like Lake Garda are characterised by warmer microclimates than the surrounding areas

The Horses of Saint Mark, brought as loot from Constantinople in 1204.

The runic inscription from the Pforzen buckle may be the earliest written example of Lombardic language

Fog on the Secchia River near Modena. Fog is a common occurrence in the Po Plain

An 18th-century view of Venice by Canaletto.

Lombard warrior, bronze statue, 8th century, Pavia Civic Museums.

Languages and regional varieties in Italy

The 13th-century Castel Brando in Cison di Valmarino, Treviso.

The Rule of Saint Benedict in Beneventan (i.e. Lombard) script

St Mark's Basilica, the seat of the Patriarch of Venice.

Lombard shield boss<BR>northern Italy, 7th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art

A glass drinking horn from Castel Trosino

The Prato della Valle in Padua, a work of Italian Renaissance architecture.

Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss.

8th-century Lombard sculpture depicting female martyrs, based on a Byzantine model. Tempietto Longobardo, Cividale del Friuli

The Church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice

A trait that shows the structure of the Calà del Sasso

Non-administrative, it consists of eight administrative Regions in northern Italy: Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige.

- Northern Italy

After the fall of the Roman Empire and the settlement of the Lombards the name Langobardia Maior was used, in the Early Middle Ages, to define the domains of the Lombard Kingdom in Northern Italy.

- Northern Italy

In 643 AD the Lombards conquered the Byzantine base at Oderzo and took possession of practically all of Veneto (and Friuli) except for Venice and Grado.

- Veneto

In 1167 an alliance (called the Lombard League) was formed among the Venetian cities such as Padua, Treviso, Vicenza, and Verona with other cities of Northern Italy to assert their rights against the Holy Roman Emperor.

- Veneto

In the summer of 569, the Lombards conquered the main Roman centre of northern Italy, Milan.

- Lombards

He extended his dominions, conquering Liguria in 643 and the remaining part of the Byzantine territories of inner Veneto, including the Roman city of Opitergium (Oderzo).

- Lombards

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Verona

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The Lion of Saint Mark, located in Piazza delle Erbe, the symbol of the Venetian Republic

The Arche scaligere, tombs of the ancient lords of Verona

Panoramic view of the city from Castel San Pietro

Palazzo del Governo is the seat of the Province of Verona

San Zeno Basilica, like many other Veronese churches, is built with alternating layers of white stone and bricks

Verona (, ; Verona or Veròna) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants.

In 569, it was taken by Alboin, King of the Lombards, in whose kingdom it was, in a sense, the second most important city.

Padua

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Remnants of Padua's Roman amphitheatre wall

The Botanical Garden of Padova today; in the background, the Basilica of Sant'Antonio

The unfinished façade of Padua Cathedral

Clock tower and Lion of St. Mark, symbol of the Serenissima Repubblic

Last Judgment by Giotto, part of the Scrovegni Chapel.

This tempera, Two Christians before the Judges, hangs in the city's Cathedral.

Loggia Amulea, as seen from Prato della Valle

Torre degli Anziani as seen from Piazza della Frutta

The Astronomical clock as seen from Piazza dei Signori

Padua (Padova ; Pàdova) is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy.

The city was again seized by the Goths under Totila, but was restored to the Eastern Empire by Narses only to fall under the control of the Lombards in 568.

Annexed to Italy during 1866, Padua was at the centre of the poorest area of Northern Italy, as Veneto was until the 1960s.

Lombardy

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One of the twenty administrative regions of Italy.

Pizzo Coca is the highest peak in the Bergamasque Alps (3,050 m)

The Adda, the longest river within the region and tributary of the Po

The Rock Drawings in Valcamonica are among the largest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs in the world.

For centuries, the Iron Crown of Lombardy was used in the Coronation of the King of Italy.

The Consulta of the République cisalpine receives the First Consul on 26 January 1802

A view over the business district of Milan: with a metropolitan area of 7.4m people, it is Italy's most important industrial, commercial and financial center.

Palazzo Lombardia, the main seat of the government of Lombardy.

The provinces/metropolitan cities of Lombardy

The Last Supper, Convent of Sta. Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy (1499), by Leonardo da Vinci

The Floating Piers by Christo and Jeanne-Claude on Lake Iseo (2016)

Gorgonzola cheese takes its name from the homonymous city near Milan

The auditorium of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

Dolce & Gabbana is headquartered in Milan.

Provolone Valpadana (pasta filata cheese)

During the early Middle Ages, "Lombardy" referred to the Kingdom of the Lombards (Regnum Langobardorum), a kingdom ruled by the Germanic Lombards who had controlled most of Italy since their invasion of Byzantine Italy in 568.

It is bordered by Switzerland (north: Canton Ticino and Canton Graubünden) and by the Italian regions of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Veneto (east), Emilia-Romagna (south), and Piedmont (west).

Lombardy counts many protected areas: the most important are the Stelvio National Park (the largest Italian natural park), with typically alpine wildlife: red deer, roe deer, ibex, chamois, foxes, ermine and also golden eagles; and the Ticino Valley Natural Park, instituted in 1974 on the Lombard side of the Ticino River to protect and conserve one of the last major examples of fluvial forest in northern Italy.