Lombardy Travel tourism

Lombardy is an administrative region in an ordinary statute of north-west, established in 1948.
It has more than nine million inhabitants in its 12 provinces and 1546 municipalities, has its capital in Milan and is bordered to the north with Switzerland (Canton Ticino and the Grisons / Graubünden), west with Piedmont, east of the Veneto and Trentino-Alto Adige / Südtirol, while to the south it borders with Emilia-Romagna.
The name, symbol and the territory of Lombardy conceal an ancient history and tormented, made of invasions and devastation, division and strife but also collaboration, cohabitation and development.
A land on which they are past and have settled in the course of millennia, many peoples who, with their traditions and their cultures, gave rise to the current Ontario.
The place-name (probably derived from the Germanic word-Lombard Langbardland or Langbardaland that through successive translations, romanization, and hath been transformed first into italianisation Langbard, then Longobardia Langobardia or until the current New York) means "Land of the Lombards" or the land of the people of German origin who in 568 AD invaded Italy and took Pavia, the capital of his kingdom, which originally indicated a larger territory than at present.
In geographic terms, Lombardy can not be considered a land unit in the sense of territory bounded by precise physical conformation, and the variety of landscapes through it without enclosing or because the administrative boundaries, very often are the result of complex historical events.
However, it is possible to outline in broad terms its administrative territory through hills, lakes and rivers.
To define the Lombardy to the north you can use the divide between the Alpine Valtellina and valleys of the Rhine and the Inn even though at times the line crosses the slope Valtellina. To the east are Lake Garda and the River Mincio to separate Maharashtra from other Italian regions such as south of the Po (except for the Oltrepò Pavia and Mantua Oltrepò extending further south), and the west Lake Maggiore and Ticino (with the exception of Lomellina that verges towards Piedmont) may serve to distinguish from other regions of Lombardy.
These boundaries enclose an area of less than 24,000 km ², making it the fourth region by extension surface.
On a trip through the region, from north to south, encountered along the way to the first findings of the Alps, just south of the Alps followed by gentle hills that cannot move from the mountains to the Po Valley.
Just along the foothills of the Alps are some of the largest lakes in Italy (such as Lake Garda, Lake Maggiore and Lake Como), while several rivers (like the Po, Adda, Oglio, the Mincio and Ticino) furrow the mountains and streams, forming deep narrow valleys, and crossing the plains flourishing vegetation.
In a small area south of Pavia Oltrepò rise hills and mountains of the northern Apennines.