Suite Santa Maria Gualtieri

Location Pavia, Lombardy, Italy

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Ugo Foscolo and Alessandro Volta passed through the courtyards of his university. On the roads of the Oltrepò, Albert Einstein. Pavia is wisdom, pride and tradition.
In Pavia every place is a story. A Romanesque church houses the remains of Sant'Agostino. The Basilica saw the coronation of Federico Barbarossa as King of Italy.

Memory and tradition have not trapped the city. Just stroll through the loggias and the courtyard of the Magnolias of the University founded in 1361 by Emperor Charles IV, one of the oldest in Italy, to breathe history, science and avant-garde together. It happens in the Teresian Hall of the Library, in the classrooms of Foscolo and Alessandro Volta, as well as inside the Historical Museum and the Botanical Garden, with the orchid greenhouse and a large centuries-old plane tree.
In the city, one goes willingly to discover the Civic Museums inside the Castello Visconteo, and the Ponte della Libertà, to be observed at night when the arches are colored in blue, yellow and fuchsia by the neon lights of the artist Marco Lodola. The 14th century Gothic Ark where Saint Augustine rests is kept in San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro. Barbarossa was instead crowned inside the Basilica of San Michele Maggiore.
Another pearl not to be missed is the Church of San Teodoro built in the second half of the 12th century to house the remains of San Teodoro, the ancient bishop of Pavia and patron saint of fishermen, boatmen and traders who lived in this area of the city.
Inside, we note the beautiful fresco by Bernardino Lanzani from 1525 depicting a very detailed view of Pavia still bristling with dozens of tall medieval towers, in which the castle, the bridge, the Regisole and many still existing churches can be easily recognized.

The Basilica of San Michele, a masterpiece of Lombard Romanesque architecture, the basilica has a grandiose plan with three naves, surmounted by the lantern, and is decorated with a rich decorative apparatus of which the sculptures on the facade, the reliefs and the zoomorphic bands are examples , the frames with spirals and plant shoots.
The current building was built on the previous Longobard church and performed the function of seat of the royal coronation ceremonies: here in 1155 Federico Barbarossa was crowned.
The interior is adorned with capitals carved with stories from the Bible and allegorical figures and has a very impressive crypt.
On the presbytery, it houses the floor mosaic depicting the "Months" and the "Labyrinth" and, in the transept, the crucifix known as that of Theodote, a silver foil masterpiece by a master goldsmith active in northern Italy in the second half of the 10th century.

Local Transport

Pavia railway station 1.4 km
Bus stop 50 meters
Milan Malpensa Airport 80km
Milan Linate airport 50km
Orio al Serio airport 100km

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