Lovere

Lovere
Comune
Comune di Lovere
Coat of arms
Location of Lovere
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	24065
Dialing code	035
Patron saint	Sts. Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa
Saint day	May 18
Website	Official website

Lovere (

The houses in the city have overhanging wooden roofs, typical of Switzerland, combined with the heavy stone arcades of Italy. It lies on a lake and is flanked by a semicircle of mountains. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").^[3] In 2018, Lovere was the only Lombardy town to finish in the top 20 of Italy's most beautiful towns.^[4]

History

The first known settlement in the Lovere area dates to the 5th and 4th century BC, being of

After the fall of the

The English aristocrat and writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu spent ten years of her life on the shores of Lake Iseo.

Main sights

• Piero Marone
  .
• Canova
  . The museum also contains a collection of terracotta, porcelain, antique armor and armaments, and furniture. Palazzo Tadini houses also a zoological collection.
• San Giorgio church, dating from 1263, although mostly rebuilt in the mid-15th century. It houses a Last Supper by
  Palma the Younger
  .
• Santa Chiara, a Clarissan monastery built in the early 16th century. It has some works by Sebastiano Conca.
• San Martino oratory, dated by some to the 9th century, and including some recently rediscovered frescoes in the apse.
• Castelliere, an ancient fortification, some portions of which date from the 3rd century BC.

Economy

Lovere possesses a metallurgic plant, Lucchini RS, which employs about 1300 people and specializes in the manufacture of railroad wheels and axles.

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 in 1942. Leading cinema critic and RAI author Enrico Ghezzi was born in Lovere in 1952.

Eros Cerutti studied at Liceo Decio Celeri before emigrating to the USA where he became President of Stella D'Oro Biscuit Company which became the largest manufacturers of Breadsticks in the world.

The alpine skiers Elena, Nadia and Sabrina Fanchini also come from Lovere.

External links

• Borghitalia website
• Enciclopedia De Agostini
• Regione Lombardia

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lovere". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 72.

1. ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
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3. ^ "Lombardia" (in Italian). Retrieved 31 July 2023.
4. ^ Il Borgho dei Borghi 2018 Italy's Most Beautiful Town competition

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