BRESCIA - Beautiful Roman City, Lombardy, Italy

BRESCIA- Beautiful Roman city, Lombardy, Italy
Brescia (pronounced Bresh-ya) is a town in the north of Italy, located in the region of Lombardy between Milan and Verona. It's a historic city with good public transport links which makes a good jumping-off point for Lakes Garda and Iseo.
The centre of Brescia, with its historic squares and lanes, is manageable on foot; a guidebook or map is useful for getting your bearings and establishing the chronology of this ancient city. Roman Brescia was called Brixia, a settlement that had already existed for hundreds of years, founded by Gauls. The Roman Forum was situated beneath the earlier hill stronghold along what is now Via Musei (but was the Decumanus Maximus). The Capitolium here, in modern-day Piazza del Foro, was the heart of town; a temple built by the Emperor Vespasian over earlier Republican-era buildings was discovered here in the nineteenth century, and has been partially reconstructed. Alongside is the town's Roman theatre. Further down Via Musei is the main town museum, the Museo della Città or Museo di Santa Giulia. The museum houses an extensive collection of local exhibits, with archaeological finds and collections from all periods of Brescia's past. It's housed in a monastery complex, Santa Giulia, which has a long and rich history and incorporates the Church of San Salvatore, begun by the Lombards in the eighth century.

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