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In 325 Martin of Tours came to Pavia as a child following his father, a Roman officer. Pavia was the seat of an important Roman mint between 273 and 326. The reign of Romulus Augustulus (r. 475–476), the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire ended at Pavia in 476 CE, and Roman rule thereby ceased in Italy.
The city still retains the ancient plan of the Roman castrum (fortified place), with main crossroads and a network of streets for centuriae (companies of soldiers). At its centre is the cathedral with its vast cupola; begun in 1488 by Cristoforo Rocchi and completed in 1898 according to his still extant model, the building has the form of a ...
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Jan 22, 2020 · John Mariani. It began as a Roman settlement called Ticinum in 220 BC. From 572 to 774 Pavia was the capital of the Kingdom of the Lombards, whose religious piety effected the construction of...
History of Pavia. The ancient history of Pavia dates back to prehistoric times. The city was born not far from the confluence of the Ticino River with the Po River and it was here that first the Ligurians, then the Celtics and later the Gauls chose to settle (the gauls in the 4th century BC).
Ticinum (the modern Pavia) was an ancient city of Gallia Transpadana, founded on the banks of the river of the same name (now the Ticino) a little way above its confluence with the Padus ( Po ). [1] It was said by Pliny the Elder to have been founded by the Laevi and Marici, two Ligurian tribes, while Ptolemy attributes it to the Insubres .
The modern city of Pavia contains no remains of antiquity except a few sarcophagi and inscriptions. These confirm the municipal condition of the city under the Roman Empire, but are not in themselves of much interest.
Pavia, called Ticinum in antiquity, is situated in south-western Lombardy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po, and is the capital of a fertile province essentially devoted to agriculture (wine, rice, cereals, dairy products).
