It is commonly called "Milano Gate", in Pavia, and it consists of two identical buildings, located on both sides of the road that connects the city to Milan, near the old walls. They are masonry buildings covered in exposed stone with, in the centre, a pedestrian passage, surmounted both at the entrance and at the exit by a stone shelf with the city coat of arms.
On the top of each toll booth there is a stone sculpture, depicting one of the two rivers of Pavia, the Po and the Ticino rivers, personified in a figure of a man in a supine position.
How many years have we been working in San Michele Maggiore in Pavia, one of the oldest and richest basilicas in Northern Italy? It was in the 2001 when we took part in the restoration of the transept and the recovery of a fresco from the Visconti era (XV Century). At the time, REA did not yet exist, but we worked as employees in another company in the area,which unfortunately is no longer active today. In twenty years we have been on many scaffoldings, but there is hardly a work comparable to the
The small parish church of Borgo San Felice, a hamlet perched on the top of a hill among Chianti hills, in the municipality of Castelnuovo Berardenga, has an ancient history, and a long period of abandonment in recent history.
A magical and wonderful place like Villa Litta in Lainate, suburbs of Milan, its gardens and its nymphaeum, requires constant attention and maintenance. Not only because it is an ancient place, with five hundred years of history, but also because the conditions of high humidity, due to the presence of water everywhere, damage works of art and systems that feed them in a very short time.
The ancient Mezzabarba palace, a noble eighteenth-century palace, has been the seat of the Municipality of Pavia since the unification of Italy, 1861 Built in XVIII century, in the recent years the building had gradually lost its beauty and delicacy due to the continuous and, often inopportune, maintenance interventions. Who could have imagined that, under the layers of acrylic color and paint, the soft and delicate late Baroque colors that had made this building a jewel in the city of Pavia could still be found?
The Basilica of Saint Teodoro in Pavia is one of the oldest churches in the city, built more than 900 years ago.
Restauro E Arte carried out the restoration of the external surfaces of the small and fragile lantern in red brick and white marble columns, year 2020.
The intervention involved the cleaning and consolidation of the external facings and the restoration of fragments of ancient plates, placed on the outside of the lantern, dating back to the period of the Crusades and of oriental origin.
One of the most important examples of Romanesque architecture in Italy, the Basilica of San Michele Maggiore, in Pavia, is a masterpiece.
Imperial church built in the first decades of the 12th century on a pre-existing Longobard one, the Basilica was the seat of the coronations of the emperors of the Italian Kingdom, in the period in which Pavia was its capital and here, among others, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa was crowned in 1155.
After a long restoration work, which lasted almost a year, the "Cortile delle Piogge" comes back to life, in the "Nymphaeum" of Villa Litta in Lainate. This place is an "unicum" in Italy, a "place of delights" from the sixteenth century where, in an artificial environment of caves and small underground channels, between frescoes and mosaics, small water games and jokes amazed and bathed visitors. Part of a long restoration, which began twenty years ago and is still in progress,
North of Milan, the city of Desio has been famous cause one of his citizens has been on the past a Pope in Vatican, with the name of Pio XI. To celebrate this event, a bronze statue has been placed on the main square of the city at the end of XIX century.
After many years, the monument was in bad conditions: the bronze had been highly damaged by pollution, in particular by acid rains, and damaged both by the constant presence of birds and vandals, which continuolsy damaged the four water fountains, placed one on each side of the monument.