Brescia

Brescia is a city and comune in the place of Lombardy in northern Italy. It is located at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. With a populace of greater than 200,000, it's far the second one biggest city in the place and the fourth of northwest Italy. The city area of Brescia extends past the executive town limits and has a populace of 672,822, at the same time as over 1.5 million human beings stay in its metropolitan vicinity.

The city is the executive capital of the Province of Brescia, one among the biggest in Italy, with over 1,200,000 inhabitants. Various myths relate to the founding of Brescia one assigns it to Hercules at the same time as some other attributes its foundation as Altilia the other Ilium with the aid of a fugitive from the siege of Troy. According to another myth, the founder was the king of the Ligures, Cidnus, who had invaded the Padan Plain within the past due Bronze Age. Colle Cidneo changed into named after that model, and it is the site of the medieval castle.