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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Po Valley, Politics of Lombardy, Lombardia, Company of Death, Insubria, Comacine masters, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Cascina a corte, President of Lombardy, Naviglio Grande, Music of Lombardy, Naviglio Martesana, Valtellina disaster, Lombard League, Bergamo Alps, Splugen Pass, Franciacorta, Lomellina, Passirano, Four Motors for Europe, Agnosine, Pezzaze, Erbusco, Palazzo Lombardia, Bavarian dynasty, Quadrilatero, American Italian Pasta Company, Muzza Canal, Bagnolo stele, Trompia, Parco dei Colli di Bergamo, European School, Varese, Naviglio di Bereguardo, Naviglio Pavese, Passagianism, Orobica, Battle of Coronate, Bionda dell'Adamello, Naviglio di Paderno, Societa Storica Lombarda, Bresciano. Excerpt: Lombardy (Italian: Italian pronunciation: , Western Lombard: Lumbardia, Eastern Lombard: Lombardia) is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe. Major tourist destinations in the region include the historic, cultural and artistic cities of Milan (which is Italy's second top tourist destination), Brescia, Mantua, Pavia, Como, Cremona, Bergamo, Sondrio, Lecco, Lodi, Varese, Monza and Brianza and the lakes of Garda, Como, Maggiore and Iseo. The official language, as in most of Italy, is Italian (however in the Sud Tirol it is German). The traditional local languages are the various dialects of Lombard (Western Lombard and Eastern Lombard), as well as some dialects of Emilian, spoken in some parts of the provinces of Mantua, Pavia and Cremona. According to Istat, almost 27% of Lombards are bilingual with Lombard and Italian languages; 9.1% are monolingual in Lombard and 57.6% are...
