presentation forTC MUST Poland 2013

1. MULTICULTURAL URBAN SOLUTIONS TRAINING COURSE
Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland
21 – 26 May 2013
Angela Colli
PAVIA Italy
luriboni@libero.it
angela.colli@unipv.it
PAVIA
OLD OR ANCIENT TOWN?
BABELE ONLUS
info@babeleonlus.it
www. babeleonlus.it

2. Pavia is a town of south-
western Lombardy, northern Italy, on the
lower Ticino river near its confluence with
the Po.
It has a population of 71000 inhabitants.

3. Dating back to pre-Roman times, the town of Pavia, then
known as Ticinum, was a municipality and an important
military site under the Roman Empire.
The city achieved its greatest political importance between
568 and 774, as the capital of the Kingdom of the
Lombards.
The Town History is fascinating.

4. The Battle of Pavia (1525) marks a watershed in the city's
fortunes, since by that time, the former cleavage between the
supporters of the Pope and those of the Holy Roman Emperor
had shifted to one between a French party (allied with the Pope)
and a party supporting the Emperor and King of Spain Charles
V. Pavia was on the Imperial (Spanish) side. The defeat and
capture of king Francis I of France during the battle ushered in a
period of Spanish occupation. On this occasion a famous recipe
was invented : Pavia soup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavia
A bird's-eye-view frescoe of the city (1525) attributed to the
painter Bernardino Lanzani

5. Francis I before his capture, took refuge in a farmhouse: he was hungry. The
housewife was preparing some soup. She had to turn her humble soup into a soup
fit for a king, so she fried some stale bread, put it into the soup, and cracked in two
newly laid eggs and ladled some boiling broth over the eggs. The whites curdled
gently and the yolks remained soft. She served it with grana padano cheese and
the king approved, asking that the recipe be given to one of his servants. And so
was born “zuppa pavese,” the famous egg-drop soup from Pavia. The crucial
element to this soup is the broth and the eggs.
http://cuisines-mediterranean.blogspot.it/2010/02/mediterranean-soups-with-history.html
http://cucina.leiweb.it/ricette/2013/ricette-primi-facili-401233558445_14.shtml

6. The University of Pavia, one of the most ancient universities
in Europe, was founded in 1361, although a school of rhetoric
is documented in 825 making this center perhaps the oldest
university of Europe

7. PAVIA IS GETTING OLDER
as we can see from the graph
Pavia population by age, sex, marital status (2012)

8. Foreigners living in Pavia on
1 January 2011 are 7.164: 10.1% of the
resident population.
New people are coming from all over the
world and are young
They come from all over the world

9. The largest foreign community is from Romania
with 16.0% of all foreigners, followed by Ukraine
(10.9%) and Albania (7.9%).

10. In Pavia foreigners are not confined to quarters
"ghetto" but they live in the city center and in all the
suburbs.
They are an important resource.
12% have a bachelor's degree although it is difficult it
to be recognized in Italy.
http://www.lookout-tv.eu/pavia-capitale-dellintegrazione-un-residente-su-dieci-e-straniero