Vigevano is an Italian town in the province of Pavia in Lombardy.
An industrial center of national importance, Vigevano is known for having long been one of the main shoe production centers in the world.
The first industrial model shoe factory was built there in 1866, opening a season that in the following century would lead the capital of Lomellino to produce tens of millions of shoes exported all over the world, earning the nickname of "shoe capital".
Even today, the International Shoe Museum, housed in the premises of the Sforzesco Castel, preserves the evidence of a crucial period in Italian industrial history.
It has long enjoyed various autonomies in the course of its history, already a free municipality federated in the second Lombard League and capital of Vigevanasco, as well as a bishopric.
It was also the first Lombard city to have obtained the title of city in modern times.
Vigevano
Address: Piazza Ducale, 20, 27029
Phone: 0381 2991
Site:
https://www.comune.vigevano.pv.it/Location inserted by
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