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Lombardy
Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lecco, Lodi,
Mantua, Milan, Monza e Brianza, Pavia, Sondrio, Varese
 Lombardy is a
region in northern Italy between the Alps and the Po river valley. It
borders the Italian regions of Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto and
Trentino-South Tyrol, as well as Switzerland.
The region is named from the Lombards, or Longobardi, who came after
the fall of the Roman Empire around 570s. The Lombards spoke a Germanic
language close to Anglo-Saxon, which may or may not have been its own
language at all. There was a close relationship between the Frankish,
Bavarian and Lombard nobility for many centuries. The name "Lombardy"
applied to the whole of Northern Italy until the 15th century.
Lombardy is one of the engines of the global economy. The region is one
of the three richest regions in Europe. In fact the latest Eurostat
figures shows that Lombardy in 2003 had the highest GDP for a region in
the whole of the EU. Many foreign and national companies have their
headquarters in Milan, and Lombardy is home to many top-rated clubs in
football, rugby, ice hockey and basketball
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Abruzzo
Basilicata
Calabria
Campania
Emilia-Romagna
Friuli-Venezia
Giulia
Latium
Liguria
Lombardy
Marche
Molise
Umbria
Piedmont
Apulia
Sardinia
Sicily
Tuscany
Trentino-South
Tyrol
Aosta Valley
Veneto
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