A report on Vicenza, 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)

Venice, the primary tourist destination and the capital of Veneto

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

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

The Frankish Merovingian King Chlothar II in combat with the Lombards

The three-dimensional stage of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza

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

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 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

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

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

An 18th-century view of Venice by Canaletto.

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

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

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

- 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.