Certosa of Pavia-BOTANIC GARDEN-VARZI ROUTE FOR ALL
Here is a new path for everyone, because the stages are easily accessible and the roads are in no way binding. Starting from the Milan ring road along the west exit of Rozzano, continue following the signs to Pavia. The roadway, a provincial, consists of a long straight and is bordered by the canal which, once navigable, was used to transport goods from Pavia to Milan. From the Certosa, returning to the province, about 8 km to Pavia. To achieve the 'Orto Botanico follow the signs to the center, along Corso Cavour, and continue Corso Mazzini and Via Scopoli. Leaving the town follow the signs for the ring road and continue towards Voghera, Salice Terme and then Varzi, we added some information.
The Botanical Garden of Pavia was established in 1773 as part of the overall renewal of the University town wanted by the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. It was built on land occupied by the monastery of the Lateran Canons of S. Epifanio and had as its first prefect "Vitman father Fulgencio (1728-1806). Since 1996, the Garden is linked to the Department of Environment, Land and Terrestrial environments, as it incorporates the former Institute of Botany. Since 2002 is part of the Network of Botanical Gardens of Lombardy. The total area of \u200b\u200bthe Garden is about two hectares, including the building department and greenhouses. The garden is divided into sectors: -the rose garden, which houses ancient species of wild roses and modern hybrids; -sector Gymnospermae; -sector Angiospermae; -l 'arboretum; -Scopoliane greenhouses, designed by Piermarini in 1776, in which they are located a large collection of succulents and a collection of Cycadaceae; -tropical greenhouse that houses a collection of plants from Africa and America; -Mediterranean greenhouse.
lettorini the number of seats in front of Serre is located Scopoliane a teaching collection of medicinal plants. To note the monumental Platano Scopoli of 1778, located north of the garden. Close to the northern facade of the building is cultivated tea (Camellia sinensis), introduced in Pavia in 1890. In the triangular flower beds lining the driveway is located at Serre Scopoliane nemoral features a collection of plants of the undergrowth of the lowland forests and threatened to varying degrees. Department of Ecology, Land is also part of the Natural Reserve "Bosco Siro Negri" in the City of Zerbolò, whose popular and Learning Center is located at the Botanical Garden Botanico.Nello same area in February 2005 was inaugurated the Germplasm Bank for the conservation of threatened native plant seeds of Lombardy.
The Certosa di Pavia is a monastery, located about 8 km north of Pavia, dating from the fourteenth century. Represents one of the most important monuments of late Gothic Italian. The original location of the monastery was on the edge of the park north of the Visconti Castle of Pavia in the park are now left only parts of it (the Vernavola Park, north of Pavia) is no longer connected to the castle and the Certosa.
Open to the public for the first time in 1911 and then remained closed for nearly half a century, the Certosa di Pavia Museum collects works from the monastery or its closely linked. The museum consists of two basic sections. The ground floor houses the gallery of plaster casts in which they are exposed about 200 plaster casts taken from the front pads, from the cloisters and other parts of the monastery, as well as from the tomb of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, founder of the Charterhouse in 1396. Upstairs are instead vestments, paintings and original sculptures which reasons linked to the secular evolution of the complex, and preservation have progressively deprived of office and original function. Among these we must mention the great altarpiece by Bartolomeo Montagna and paintings on wood, fragments of altarpieces, and Ambrose Bergognone Bernardino Luini, reliefs and marble with traces of gilding and polychromy by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Cristoforo Mantegazza and Agostino Busti said Bambaja. In the same floor are exposed seventeenth and eighteenth century portraits of the Visconti and Sforza, patrons of the monastery, detached wall paintings attributed to Bernard of Pavia de 'Rossi and at the same Bergognone, paintings by Bernardino Campi and Antonio, and a series of holy Carthusians.
The Museum is housed in the ancient halls of the so-called Palazzo Ducale della Certosa (XV - XVI century), former home of the Dukes and guest quarters for visitors of rank. His visit thus enables you to admire the splendor of some environments such as the oratory and the wall of the gallery of plaster casts, paintings by the brothers Fiammenghini, and valuable to the studio floor, painted with grotesque decorations of the second sixteenth century, in which biblical scenes and Roman history are part of a refined setting illusionary perspective.
most important center of the entire Valley Staffora Varzi still has a structure typically medieval. Varzi's origins date back to centuries before the birth of Christ at that time it occupied the Ligurian peoples Staffora Valley and settled in the territory and founded several towns. Affected by the invasion of the Romans for many centuries and included among the possessions of the monastery of Bobbio, Varzi owes its development solely to Malaspina, through which bought it in the medieval period considerable prestige. What greater witness to the vital role that the Marquis had to Varzi is the Malaspina Castle, now the palace of the Counts of Odetti Marcolengo.
The old town, stretched between the Staffora and main street, at the ends of the main two towers that guarded the gates up area in the fifteenth century: the Door skirt to the west and Port Soprana, to the east. Between the two towers is the church of the Reds and the Whites, the name of the brotherhood who attend, both made in the style of Baroque in the seventeenth century. Walking through the narrow streets of the village is not unusual to find charming views. Varzi is still the symbolic center of the entire Valley Staffora: medieval village of outstanding beauty and is known also renowned for the production of salami, one of the only Northern Italy to have obtained the DOP
