Pavia - informations to know the city and its surroundings

Situated to the convergence of the Ticino in the Po, it was defined in the past Centium Turrium for the presence of the ancient tower that give ti the town the appearance noble and cultured thanks also to the sixteenth century and renowned university. To the inside of the town to visit the Church of San Pietro in ciel d'Oro, typical example of romanica construction, the Castle Visconteo, raised in 1360, the Theater Fraschini, the Cathedral, begun in 1488 and finished towards the end of XVI century, the Basilica of San Michele, one of the monuments most important and one of the masterpieces of the romanica architecture. In the town are able besides visit the Chuerch of San Teodoro and the Church of Santa Maria in Betlem. A lot are the festivals that develop in the chief-town and between these we remember the september appointment named Pavian Autumn in which sample typical dishes of the whole province like the soup to the pavese (broth with eggs, bread and cheese) the frogs fried, the sausages, the cotechini and teh mortadella of liver.