Certosa di Pavia

The Basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro was built at the beginning of the 8th century, in the middle of the Lombard era and is called St. Peter in the Golden Sky because of its golden ceilings. The church was reconsecrated by Pope Innocent II in 1132 after major renovations in Romanesque style. Having fallen into a state of abandonment and ruin after the Napoleonic period, the basilica was restored and partially rebuilt between 1875 and 1899.

The Church of Sant'Eusebio was a church in Pavia, of which only the crypt remains today. Built as an Arian cathedral by King Rothari (636-652), it later became an important place of conversion to Catholicism for the Lombards. The crypt of Sant'Eusebio is one of the two proto-Romanesque crypts in Pavia, together with that of S. Giovanni Domnarum. The crypt is divided into five naves by slender columns supporting cross vaults. The capitals of the columns are truncated pyramid-shaped and reproduce various motifs. Together with the cycle of Romanesque frescoes that decorate the vaults, they constitute the most interesting elements of the crypt.

The Cathedral of Pavia, founded in the 15th century, is an important Renaissance building, recognizable by its octagonal masonry dome, one of the largest in Italy. The construction of the cathedral began in 1488 on the site of the two pre-existing Romanesque cathedrals. The cathedral was not completed until the 1930s, with the construction in 1930-33 of the two arms of the transept, built according to the original 16th-century plans. A 78 m high bell tower (the Torre Civica) originally flanked the cathedral. Mentioned as early as 1330 and enlarged in 1583, it collapsed in 1989. Its remains are still visible on the left side of the cathedral.