Brescia
Administrative Capital
General Information
Other Name: -, District: NA, State: Lombardy , Italy
Area: 90 km²
Languages Spoken: Italian
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Brescia is the second largest city in the Lombard region of Italy after Milan. Brescia is close to Lake Garda, and a popular tourist destination.The city is at the centre of the third-largest Italian industrial area, concentrating on mechanical and automotive engineering and machine tools.Location
Brescia is located 50 km from Milan and Verona.Climate
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Created on typically American lines, this 18-hole, par-72 golf course covers an area of almost 150 acres, on land that was once tended as vineyards.
In the western cloister of the former convent of Santa Giulia in Brescia is the Galleria d''Arte Moderna, with works of the 19th century. Adjoining stands the remarkable Romanesque church of S Maria in Solario.
Valcamonica, situated in the Lombardy plain, has one of the world''s greatest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs – more than 140,000 symbols and figures carved in the rock over a period of 8,000 years and depicting themes connected with agriculture, navigation, war and magic.
On the south side of the Duomo Nuovo in Brescia is the Rotonda or Duomo Vecchio, a massive circular structure crowned by a dome (11th-12th centuries) containing works by Moretto and Romanino. Beneath the transept lies the Cripta di San Filastrio; the columns have capitals of the former Basilica di S Maria Maggiore.
A Corinthian temple built in A.D. 73, in the reign of Vespasian, and dedicated to Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, with a pronaos of eight columns and three cellas. The three cellas contain a collection of Roman inscriptions.
Behind the Post Office lies the Piazza della Loggia, one of the most picturesque squares in northern Italy. On its west side is the superb Loggia (Town Hall), begun in Early Renaissance style and completed between 1526 and 1674. Opposite on the east side can be seen a facade with a 16th century clock-tower. On the south side is the Monte di Pieta (pawnshop), with a beautiful Early Renaissance loggia (15th century).