Lombardy
Lombardian Alps & Prealps
Province of Brescia

Brescia

Brescia is a rich industrial city in between , and the Val Trompia in the foothills of the Alps, about 100 km east of , and the capital of the province of Brescia.
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  • Type: City with 188,000 residents
  • Description: Italian city in Lombardy
  • Also known as: “017029” and “Lioness of Italy”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brescia Railway Station and Palazzo della Loggia.

Railway station
Photo: Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the main station serving the city and comune of Brescia, in the region of , northern Italy. The station is situated in central Brescia, on the south-western edge of the historic town centre.

Town hall
Photo: Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Renaissance palace situated in the in Brescia.

Church
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The Duomo Nuovo or New Cathedral is the largest Catholic church in Brescia, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lamarmora and Centro Storico Nord.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Suburb
Photo: Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

Brescia

Latitude
45.5398° or 45° 32′ 23″ north
Longitude
10.22° or 10° 13′ 12″ east
Population
188,000
Elevation
132 metres (433 feet)
Open location code
8FQGG6QC+W2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 62505590
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6542113
Wiki­data ID
Q6221
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Brescia” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Bresha”
  • Albanian: “Breshia”
  • Arabic: “بريشا”
  • Aragonese: “Brescia”
  • Armenian: “Բրեշիա”
  • Asturian: “Brescia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Breşia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Breşiya”
  • Basque: “Brescia”
  • Belarusian: “Брэшыя”
  • Bengali: “ব্রেশা”
  • Breton: “Brescia”
  • Bulgarian: “Бреша”
  • Catalan: “Brescia”
  • Cebuano: “Brescia”
  • Central Bikol: “Brescia”
  • Chechen: “Брешиа”
  • Chinese: “布雷夏”
  • Chinese: “布雷西亚”
  • Chinese: “布雷西亞”
  • Chuvash: “Брешиа”
  • Corsican: “Brescia”
  • Croatian: “Brescia”
  • Czech: “Brescia”
  • Danish: “Brescia”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Breşa”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Brescia”
  • Dutch: “Brescia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بريشا”
  • Esperanto: “Breŝo”
  • Estonian: “Brescia”
  • Finnish: “Brescia”
  • French: “Brescia”
  • Friulian: “Bresse di Milan”
  • Galician: “Brescia”
  • Georgian: “ბრეშა”
  • German: “Brescia”
  • Greek: “Μπρέσια”
  • Gujarati: “બ્ર્રેસિયા”
  • Hebrew: “ברשה”
  • Hindi: “ब्रेशिया”
  • Hungarian: “Brescia”
  • Icelandic: “Brescia”
  • Ido: “Brescia”
  • Indonesian: “Brescia”
  • Interlingua: “Brescia”
  • Irish: “Brescia”
  • Italian: “Brescia”
  • Italian: “Brixia”
  • Italian: “Comune di Brescia”
  • Italian: “Leonessa d’Italia”
  • Japanese: “ブレーシャ”
  • Japanese: “ブレシア”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರೇಸಿಯಾ”
  • Kirghiz: “Брешиа”
  • Korean: “브레시아”
  • Kotava: “Brescia”
  • Kurdish: “Brescia”
  • Ladin: “Brescia”
  • Latin: “Brixia”
  • Latvian: “Breša”
  • Ligurian: “Bréscia”
  • Lithuanian: “Breša”
  • Lombard: “Brèsa”
  • Low German: “Brescia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brescia”
  • Macedonian: “Бреша”
  • Malagasy: “Brescia”
  • Malay: “Brescia”
  • Maltese: “Brescia”
  • Marathi: “ब्रेसशिया”
  • Moksha: “Брэшия”
  • Neapolitan: “Brescia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Brescia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brescia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brescia”
  • Norwegian: “Brescia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Breissa”
  • Ossetian: “Брешиа”
  • Persian: “برشا”
  • Piemontese: “Bressia”
  • Polish: “Brescia”
  • Portuguese: “Bréscia”
  • Quechua: “Brescia”
  • Romanian: “Brescia”
  • Russian: “Бреша”
  • Russian: “Брешиа”
  • Sanskrit: “ब्रेशा”
  • Sanskrit: “ब्रेशिया”
  • Sardinian: “Brescia”
  • Scots: “Brescia”
  • Serbian: “Бреша”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brescia”
  • Sicilian: “Brescia”
  • Silesian: “Brescia”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රෙෂියා”
  • Slovak: “Brescia”
  • Slovenian: “Brescia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برشا”
  • Spanish: “Brescia”
  • Swahili: “Brescia”
  • Swedish: “Brescia”
  • Tagalog: “Brescia”
  • Tamil: “பிரேசியா”
  • Tatar: “Брешия”
  • Telugu: “బ్రెసిషియా”
  • Thai: “เบรชชา”
  • Turkish: “Brescia”
  • Ukrainian: “Брешія”
  • Urdu: “بریشا”
  • Uzbek: “Bresha”
  • Uzbek: “Breshia”
  • Venetian: “Bresa”
  • Vietnamese: “Brescia”
  • Volapük: “Brescia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brescia”
  • Welsh: “Brescia”
  • Western Frisian: “Brescia”
  • Western Panjabi: “بریسیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “布雷西亚”
  • Xhosa: “Brescia”
  • Yue Chinese: “布雷西亞”
  • “Brësa”
  • “Brescia”
  • “Brescie”
  • “Brëssa”

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