Brescia

Brescia (in French Breach ) is a Italian city of approximately: 190000 inhabitants, located in the province of Brescia, of which it is the chief town, in Lombardy, area of the Plaine of Po, in the North-West of the Italy.

Brescia is known under the name of the Lionne of Italy , qualifier allotted to the poet Giosué Carducci.

The urban surface, which includes also communes bordering, has a population between 350  000 and 500  000 inhabitants, according to the criteria of delimitation.

Etymology

The name of Brescia is the adaptation in Vénitien lombard Brèsa , itself derived from the longobard Brexia , which finds its origin in the Roman name of the city called colonia civica Augusta Brixia in the honor of Auguste.

This Latin name of Brixia (as its alternative Βρηξία ) is well documented at the time traditional (Catulle, Tite-Live, Pline Old the, etc); it derives from the radical Gallic * brica /* briga (top, hill, height), radical which is found in other toponyms of the Celtic area of influence (Bresse, the Brie, Bressanone, etc).

Honorary titles

The town of Brescia is
  • the third among the 27 Italian cities honoured by a gold medal like “Benemerita del Risorgimento nazionale” (deserving of national Risorgimento) for the highly patriotic acts achieved by the city for the period with the Risorgimento. According to the definition of the House of Savoy, this period is located between the insurrectionary movements of 1848 and the end of the First World War in 1918.
  • so decorated with the military decoration for its action during (Resistenza), and in particular of the sacrifice War of liberation of its population and its activity in the fight partisane during the Second world war.

Administration

Abbreviation (used for the registration of the cars, and the postal address inside the province): BS.

Hamlets

Fornaci, Sant' Eufemia, San Sports shirt

Communes bordering

Borgosatollo, Botticino, Bovezzo, Castel Mixed, Castenedolo, Cellatica, Collebeato, Concesio, Flero, Gussago, Nave, Rezzato, Roncadelle, San Zeno Naviglio

Personalities

Culture

Monuments

  • Duomo
  • Rotonda, the Duomo Vecchio builds on the site of a church of the 8th century
  • the prefecture in Broletto, old the palazzo communal
  • the castle
  • the basilica San Salvatore rebuilt at the 11th century century on a preceding church of the 8th century
  • Musées: 4 arts fields and history and 1 natural science field:
    • the Tempio Capitolino
    • the Museo dell' età Cristiana
    • the art gallery Tosio Martinengo which contain works of the school of Brescia
    • the Galleria d' Arte Moderna
  • Several places (corresponding to the various centers history of the city according to the times)
    • “Piazza della Loggia” (place of the cabin), the architectonic whole most homogeneous of the city and a splendid example of place surrounded in style Renaissance   ; the principal building is the “Loggia”, today town hall, begun in 1492 pennies the direction of Filippino de Grassi. In order to protect the shops out of wooden located on the left from the place, of the frequent fires, during the 14th century at summer builds a wall with stones of Roman origin found in the trenches for the foundations.
    • “Piazza della Vittoria” (place of the victory) is an urban unit carried out in the Années 1930 which takes as a starting point the typical Rationalisme architectonic of the architect Piacentini. The new buildings shelter the hotel of Station and the underground car park most central of the city.

Évêché

  • Diocese of Brescia
  • Cathedral of Brescia

Economy

Second the most populated city area and third industrial center of Italy.

Presence of manufacturing industries in the fields chemical, textile and metallurgical inter alia.

The origin of the international company Beretta is in the small village of Gardone Val Trompia, in the area of Brescia.

The Wührer establishments produce the oldest beer of Italy since 1829.

Tourism and leisures

Brescia is in the middle of the area of the Italian lakes: Lake Garda also called Benaco and Lake Iseo. The Val Camonica in the north of the city is rich in testimonys of the Préhistoire (many cave paintings). Thirty monuments are quoted among which some are in the course of restoration.

To move

  • Train
  • Drunk: urban and interurban
  • Future subway (open in 2011)
  • Taxi (of which “collectives”)
  • cycle Tracks for bicycle
  • Road and highway: in car

See too

  • Thousand Miglia, automobile race organized of 1927 to 1957 between Brescia and Rome.
  • List of the Italian cities of more than 25.000 inhabitants

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