Pavia

Pavia, on the Ticino in Lombardy, northern Italy, was the Roman town of Ticinum and served as capital of the Lombard kingdom from 572 to 774. Its church of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro is said to hold the tombs of St Augustine and of the philosopher Boethius, who according to tradition was imprisoned and executed near the city around 524. The university, founded in 1361 under the Visconti, became a long-standing centre of medicine and science. German Jewish families settled in Pavia from 1389, and the jurist Joseph Colon spent his last years and died there around 1480; the community was ordered out of the city in 1597.

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