It’s considered to be the most dynamic and industrial region with a high standard of living. It certainly shows the most modern image of our country both in business and fashion and art. Different populations took turns and its name means ‘Longobardi land’(population of Germanic origin). It includes a lot of lakes both big and small. Tourism is above all cultural or oeno-gastronomic: Milan salami, Gorgonzola, Crescenza, cutlet, panettone.
Famous people:
Alessandro Volta, Ada Negri, Arlecchino and Brighella.
Things to try and places to visit:
La Torre del Pegol and Estensi Gardens, moustard, lotus flowers and ‘scorlazzini’. ‘I Promessi sposi’, Leonardo da Vinci and the Atlantic Code, the Pirate of Como lake, the Mountain Department, the ‘misultit’, ‘Il Rito Ambrosiano’, the teathre and ‘la Spinazitt’, I Tombon, il Capannone.
