Lombardy (Lombardia in Italian) on the North of Italy is one of
the Italian regions covering approximately the centre of the Po
Valley, while it is extending over the middle of the Italian
Alps. Milan is the capital of Lombardia. View and book hotels in
Lombardia. Click here. Lombardy borders with Switzerland to the
north, Emilia-Romagna to the south, Piedmont to the west and
Trentino-Alto Adige and Venetia to the east. The region (23,856
sq km.) is the fourth in size in Italy, however it is
unquestionably the most densely populated (c. 8,879,000). The
population density (372 inhabitants per sq.km) makes Lombardy
the second region, after Campania. 1/14 of the country's entire
population is concentrated in the Province of Milan. The plains
of Lombardy, formed from alluvial deposits, can be divided into
"upper" (permeable ground) and "lower" to the south of the so-
called line of "fontanili" the spring waters rising on
impermeable ground. Anomalous compared with the three
distinctions already made is the "Oltrep