Lovere

Infobox CityIT
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official_name = Comune di Lovere
region = Bergamo
province = Bergamo (BG)
elevation_m =
area_total_km2 = 149
population_as_of = December 31, 2004
population_total = 5430
population_density_km2 = 776
timezone = CET, UTC+1
coordinates = coord|45|48|45|N|10|04|12|E|region:IT_type:city(5658)|display=inline,title
frazioni =
telephone = 035
postalcode = 24065
gentilic = Loveresi
saint = Sts. Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa
day = may 18
mayor = Vasco Vasconi (since june 14, 2004)
website = [http://www.comune.lovere.bg.it/ www.comune.lovere.bg.it]

Lovere is a town in the province of Bergamo, in Lombardy, Italy, at the north-west end of the Lago d'Iseo. The houses in the city have overhanging wooden roofs of Switzerland united with the heavy stone arcades of Italy; it faces a lake and has a semicircle of mountains behind. Lovere is part of Borghi più belli d´Italia (the most beautiful Italian boroughs).

Main sights

The church of" Santa Maria in Valvendra", built in 1473, has frescoes by Floriano Ferramola of Brescia.

"Palazzo Tadini" contains a gallery of art including paintings by Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli, Giovanni Battista Botticchio,
Giovanni Battista Crespi (also known as "Il Cerano"), Pietro Damini, Gilardo da Lodi, Gilardo da Lodi,
Jacopo Ligozzi, Pietro Mera, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, Tommaso Pombioli, Santo Prunati, Pietro Ricchi, Elisabetta Sirani, Giambattista Tassinari, Paris Bordone, Luigi Cerioli, Giacomo Ceruti, Antonio Cifrondi, Ernest Daret,Giovanni De Giorgi, Luigi Frisoni, Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi (also known as Fra' Galgario), Antonio Gianlisi,Francesco Lorenzi, Giambattista Marcola, Domenico Pecchio, Mauro Picenardi, Giandomenico Tiepolo, and Francesco Zugno.

There are additional paintings from the 19th century by Eduardo Arroyo, Lionello Balestrieri, Mariella Bettineschi, Bram Bogart, Cristoforo De Amicis, Arturo Ferrari, Bengt Lindstrom, Trento Longaretti, Alessandro Nastasio, Giorgio Oprandi, Luigi Pellini, Carlos Puente, Ernesto Quarti Marchiò, Joe Tilson, Giovanni Trussardi Volpi, and Emilio Vedova.

It has marble sculptures by Giovanni Maria Benzoni, Johann Weigel, Andrea Chierici, Luciano Zambetti and Canova. The museum also contains a collection of terracotta, porcelain, antique armor and armaments, and furniture. It houses a zoological collection. Lovere possesses a silk-spinning factory, and the Stablimento Metallurgico Gregorini, a large iron-work and cannon foundry, employs 1600 workmen.

Notable people

1906 Medicine Nobel Prize Camillo Golgi studied in Lovere's Liceo Classico. Giacomo Agostini, all-time leader in victories in motorcycle Grand Prix history, was born in Lovere 1942. Leading cinema critic and RAI author Enrico Ghezzi was born in Lovere 1952. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - XVIII century british aristocrat and writer - elected to live in Lovere for some years.

External links

* [http://www.borghitalia.it/html/borgo_en.php?codice_borgo=490&codice=elenco&page=1 Borghitalia site]

References

*1911