A report on Vicenza, Padua, Lombards and Veneto

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)

Remnants of Padua's Roman amphitheatre wall

Venice, the primary tourist destination and the capital of Veneto

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

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

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

The unfinished façade of Padua Cathedral

The Frankish Merovingian King Chlothar II in combat with the Lombards

The three-dimensional stage of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza

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

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

Palazzo Thiene Bonin Longare, designed by Palladio and built by Vincenzo Scamozzi

Last Judgment by Giotto, part of the Scrovegni Chapel.

Lombard Duchy of Benevento in the eighth century

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

Plaque for Vicenza in the UNESCO World Heritage List

The West-Germanic languages around the sixth century CE

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.

A plate of Baccalà alla vicentina, a typical dish of the city

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

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

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

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

An 18th-century view of Venice by Canaletto.

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

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

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

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

Loggia Amulea, as seen from Prato della Valle

Torre degli Anziani as seen from Piazza della Frutta

A glass drinking horn from Castel Trosino

The Astronomical clock as seen from Piazza dei Signori

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

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

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

The Church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice

A trait that shows the structure of the Calà del Sasso

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

- Padua

It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the Monte Berico, where it straddles the Bacchiglione River.

- Vicenza

Padua stands on the Bacchiglione River, 40 km west of Venice and 29 km southeast of Vicenza.

- Padua

The citizens of Vicetia received Roman citizenship and were inscribed into the Roman tribe Romilia in 49 BC. The city was known for its agriculture, brickworks, marble quarry, and wool industry and had some importance as a way-station on the important road from Mediolanum (Milan) to Aquileia, near Tergeste (Trieste), but it was overshadowed by its neighbor Patavium (Padua).

- Vicenza

It was also an important Lombard city and then a Frankish center.

- Vicenza

Este, Padua, Oderzo, Adria, Vicenza, Verona, and Altino became centres of Venetic culture.

- Veneto

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.

- Padua

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

Soon Vicenza, Verona and Brescia fell into Germanic hands.

- Lombards

Agilulf successfully fought the rebel dukes of northern Italy, conquering Padua in 601, Cremona and Mantua in 603, and forcing the Exarch of Ravenna to pay tribute.

- 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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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.

In 1164 Verona joined with Vicenza, Padua and Treviso to create the Veronese League, which was integrated with the Lombard League in 1167 to battle against Frederick I Barbarossa.