Pavia

What this place is

• Imperial capital — the Lombard kings' capital from 572, and the seat of the Italian kingdom after Charlemagne took the city in 774

Who is recorded here

• Boethius death · AD 524
• John XIV birth · AD 1000

What happened here

• Boethius writes in prison at Pavia AD 524

In art

• The Battle of Pavia — Rupert Heller (1529)
• Autumn Landscape near Pavia — Karl Heffner
• File:20160807-Pavia-002.jpg — Konki

About the place

Pavia is a town and comune in south-western Lombardy, Northern Italy, 35 kilometres south of Milan on the lower Ticino near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of about 73,086.

From Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-08-14 · CC BY-SA 4.0