Lombardy

My Lombardy photoclip on youtube (quality: rather low):
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Cremona
Part 3: Milano
Part 4: Lake Como

Autumn 2006: A journey to Italy's northern province. This region is one of the most beautiful places and packed with great architecture, art and history - the latter to a great deal of Germans and Italians punching each other up ;-))

Or, as my teachers would have put it:

"The 11th century marked a significant boom in the region's economy, due to improved trading and, mostly, agricultural conditions. In a similar way to other areas of Italy, this led to a growing self-acknowledgement of the cities, whose increasing richness made them able to defy the traditional feudal supreme power, represented by the German emperors and their local legates. This process reached its apex in the 12th and 13th century, when different Lombard Leagues formed by allied cities of Lombardy, usually led by Milan, managed to defeat the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick I, at Legnano, and his grandson Frederick II, at Parma. This did not prevent other important Lombard centres, like Cremona (then rivalling Milan for size and wealth) and others, from supporting the imperial power if this could grant them an immediate advantage."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombardy

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items are from between 22 Oct 2006 & 26 Jan 2009.