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Lumezzane
Italy, officially the Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana, is a Southern European country comprising of the Po River valley, the Italian Peninsula and the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. It is shaped like a boot and for this reason Italians commonly call it lo Stivale, the boot or, due to its prevalent peninsular geographical nature, la Penisola, the Peninsula.
Lumezzane is a commune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy. It is bounded by other communes of Caino, Nave, Bovezzo, Sarezzo and Marcheno. It is situated by the Trompia Valley and the Gobbia valley. Lumezzane is located in the part orients them of the Valtrompia lowland and is one goes them to being himself, called also Valgobbia, name that some would want to derive from vadum-guado, term in order to indicate melmosi lands furrows to you from easy guadabili channels. Indeed second the line of the watershed, the Valgobbia extends from the step of the Horse until the outlet of the Gobbia torrent, than it it furrows in all its length from east to the west, in the Mella River, the common one of Sarezzo.
There are three signs of evidence of the Roman presence in Lumezzane the tomb-stones of the Lumezzane Pieve fraction, the imperial coin found at Lumezzane Piatucco, and finally the Lumezzane Brescia aqueduct. Until the arrivaI of the Romans to there to were not particular signs of other human settlements, but recent studies supposed that when the Roman technicians began constructing of the aqueduct they found without to doubt found settlements of folk of ancient Rhaetian stock. In the north of the Pieve fraction, the place-name Castle is conserved.
Lumezzanes fell within the domain of the Ostrogothics followed by the Lombards and the Franks. Various events characterized community life throughout the centuries. In 1406 Lumezzane passed to the Malatesta family who assigned the village to the country of Mompiano In 1427 with the coming of the Venetian Republic Lumezzane became an autonomous country and Peter Avogadro was its capital. Lumezzane today is situated in the territory of Valgobbia but falls under the municipality of Lumezzane Valley. The entrance to the valley is situated 12 kilometres north of Brescia, to the left of the Mella river, in the municipality of Sarezzo.
It can also be considered as the preeminent, historical and potential tourism destination that enjoys a very positive reputation with worldwide travelers to become one of the most visited places.
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