Lombardy, Italian Lombardia, regione of northern Italy. It is bordered on the north by Switzerland and by the Italian regioni of Emilia-Romagna (south), Trentino–Alto Adige and Veneto (east), and Piedmont (west). Administratively, Lombardy consists of the provincie of Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lecco, Lodi, Mantova, Milano, Monza e Brianza, Pavia, Sondrio, and Varese. The capital is Milan. In the pharmaceutical industry the competitive landscape is dominated by a small number of large multinationals such as Roche or GlaxoSmithKline and local players such as Menarini Industrie Farmaceutiche, Angelini and others. The companies are localised mainly in the following regions: Lombardy, Lazio, Tuscany and Emilia Romagna.

Living in Lombardy

Asides from being home to the City of Fashion, Lombardy is famous worldwide for its beautiful lake district, notably Lake Como. Perhaps lesser known is the fact that Lombardy is Italy’s most important industrial and commercial region, with an impressive manufacturing sector centered around Milan. Lombardy is also Italy’s leading agricultural region with rich farmland to the south that produces rice, wheat, corn, fruit, vines, olives and so much more!