The University of Pavia is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. There was evidence of teaching as early as 1361, making it one of the oldest universities in the world. It was the sole university in Milan and the greater Lombardy region until the end of the 19th century.
In 2022 the university was recognized by the Times Higher Education among the top 10 in Italy and among the 300 best in the world.
Currently, it has 18 departments and 9 faculties. It does not have a main campus; its buildings and facilities are scattered around the city, which is in turn called "a city campus." The university caters to more than 20,000 students who come from Italy and all over the world.
Funerary slab of Baldus de Ubaldis (first half of the 15th century), Old Campus of the University of Pavia.
Old Campus of the University of Pavia
Giuseppe Piermarini, the library, 1772.
Giuseppe Piermarini, facade of the university, 1771-1773.
Pavia is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, in Northern Italy, 35 kilometres south of Milan on the lower Ticino near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom from 540 to 553, of the Kingdom of the Lombards from 572 to 774, of the Kingdom of Italy from 774 to 1024 and seat of the Visconti court from 1365 to 1413.
Clockwise from top: Corso Strada Nuova, main shopping area in Pavia; Veduta laterale del Castello Visconteo ("Visconti Castle"); river Ticino; Ponte Coperto and river Ticino; and a view of the city's Cathedral from the Piazza della Vittoria
This painting by Josse Lieferinxe depicts an outbreak of the plague in seventh-century Pavia (then under the Lombard Kingdom). The Walters Art Museum.
Aerial photo of the historic center of Pavia; the urban plan of the Roman age is evident.
One of the sections of the Roman sewer that passes under the streets of the historic center of Pavia
