A prosperous region with fertile ground, a tempered climate and, for the tourist, spectacular lakes like Like, Garda, Maggiore (shared with Piedmont) and Lugano. Like in Piedmont, the valley of the Po has much heavy industry. The high mountains of the north, of Italy that mark the border with Switzerland, provide excellent sites to ski and to climb. The more famous culinarias inventions of Lombardy are the soup of minestrone and osso buco.
Lombardy occupies a surface of 23,859 km² and is the region with the greater population of Italy since it counts on 9.122.000 of inhabitants. The capital of the region is Milan that in addition is the second city of Italy by number of inhabitants. The rest of the capitals of province of this region is: Bergamo, Brescia, Like, Cremona, Lecco, Lodi, Mantua, Pavia, Sondrio and Varese.
The territory of the region is constituted by plains in its 47% and mountains in its 40%. In the zone to the south we found the Po river with its important affluents: the Adda, the Ticino, the Oglio and the Mincio. The most important tips del territory are del Gruppo del Bernini that reach almost 4000 meters of height. In the prealpine strip they are a great number of lakes. Most important they are: the Maggiore Lake, the Lake of Lugano, il Lake of Like, il d'Iseo Lake, the Lake d'Idro and the Lake of Garda. It is the richest region from the economic point of view, or agricultural sector (production of fruit and cereals) that in the industrial sector (metallurgical industries, of the textile and the nourishing sector).
The turísmo is concentrated, in its majority, the zones of mountain and the lakes where infrastructures of quality exiten dedicated to the leisure and different types from sports and where it is possible to be enjoyed natural landscapes of great beauty. In addition, in Lombardía are important artistic cities like: Milan, Mantúa, Bergamo and Pavia that offer to the visitor full urban centers of culture and valuable works of art.

MILAN
The most sophisticated and cosmopolitan city of the north of Italy, Milan, is a financial and commercial center of world-wide importance and a rival of Paris in the spheres of the modern art and the fashion. Its international character is marked by a great concentration of skyscrapers that are not in any other part of Italy, contrasting with the historical buildings, but is constructed under the same arrogance and civic pride that 500 years ago its splendid gothic Cathedral gave to the city. Still today, this one is the second greater church of the world, in spite of its stature, creates an impression of delicate and etérea beauty due to its pale color and to its fine carving in the cover of its outside. The whole city is full of palaces, seats and churches, that speak of centuries of continuous prosperity. The Castello Sforzesco, to the west of the city, is a massive castle fortified, begun by the Visconti and finished by the Sforza. It was the political and social bastion where the Sforzas made their decisions during the height from Milan as political-cultural center and much of the elite of the Renaissance were born within its luxurious dominions. The artists of their cut included Leonardo Da Vinci and to Twine and the place now contains a great number of museums. Famous the fresh air of Leonardo Da Vinci, the Last Supper can be seen in the convent of Santa Maria della Grazie.