Montreve

Montreve is a principality, or City State in the south of Malerno, it is Malerno's third largest city after Belmonda and Rossa, with a population just over 50,000. It is situated in the bay of Montreve.

The city is known for its many internationally renowned museums, ranging from the Museo Del'Arte and the Museo Serrato which is the largest museum of art in the whole of Malerno, to the Fondation Bellinghi (located in Gandava). The various institutes and facilities and the city's centuries-long commitment to humanism, allowed Montreve to quickly access a high level of repuation.

The Principality of Montreve is Malerno's third-largest economic centre after the city of Rossa and Belmonda and has the second highest GDP per capita in the country after Belmonda. In terms of value, over 94% of Montreve City's goods exports are in pharmaceutical sectors. With production facilities located in the areas of Novaesium, Montreve accounts for 20% of Malerno's exports and generates one third of the national product.

The Principality was founded by Eucomia Cardo in 1366. The Cardo dynasty is a princely house originating in Italy, founded by the Genoese leader Eucomia Cardo, who in 1366 took the lordship of Montreve. The House of Cardo has ruled Montreve, with brief interruptions, since 1366. The official language is Italian and Latin, but French and English are widely spoken and understood.

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=Government=



Montreve is one of the 13 Principalities that seats and is represented in the Forum Centralis of Malerno, the Prince or Princess appoints a First Citizen directly elected by the citizens of the city.

Under the 1962 constitution, the princess shares his veto power both with the Forum Civitatis (National Forum) and the Montreve Forum. The 24 members of the Montreve Forum are elected for five-year terms; 16 are chosen through a majority electoral system and 8 by proportional representation. All legislation requires the approval of the Montreve Forum, which is currently dominated by the Il Cambio! at the 20 seats. in 2018 Stephano di Chavanno a former engineer at Airbus in France and lead designer at Maricelli Jet Engines was elected First Citizen of Montreve. The principality's city affairs are directed by the Communal Council, which consists of 14 elected members and is presided by the Second Citizen. Councillors and are strictly non-partisan; however, oppositions inside the council frequently form.

Princess Cecilia Cardo
The current leader is Princess Cecilia Cardo who follows Prince Ardito Cardowho died following a major accident driving his Ferrari F50 off a cliff in 1992. Princess Cecilia Cardo has since her investiture as princess of Montreve motivated the Montreve Forum in passing different laws regarding sustainable development and social welfare, she spearheaded a Migrant welcome scheme in 2016 that was refused by the Forum Civitatis, In 2018 she opposed the creation of the Malerno Airlines Flag Carrier.

Administration
The Principality of Montreve is composed of two Municipalities, Montreve and Gandava.

=Geography=

Montreve is a city state, two municiplaities and eleven districts located in the bay of Montreve, in the Southern part of the Island of Malerno. It is bordered by the principality of Aquilea on it's East and North and Padovese on the West with one side bordering the Mediterranean Sea.

The highest point in the country is at the access to the Casigni Palace residential building on the Via Maldini at 254.4 metres above sea level.

Climate
Montreve has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa), which is influenced by oceanic climate and humid subtropical climate. As a result, it has warm, dry summers and mild, rainy winters. Cool and rainy interludes can interrupt the dry summer season, the average length of which is also shorter. Summer afternoons are infrequently hot (indeed, temperatures greater than 30 °C or 86 °F are rare) as the atmosphere is temperate because of constant sea breezes. On the other hand, the nights are very mild, due to the fairly high temperature of the sea in summer. Generally, temperatures do not drop below 20 °C (68 °F) in this season. In the winter, frosts and snowfalls are extremely rare and generally occur once or twice every ten years. On February 27, 2018, both Montreve and Gandava experienced snowfall.

=Culture=

Main Sights


Montreve features a great number of heritage sites of national significance. These include the entire Old Town of Montreve and Gandava as well as the following buildings and collections:


 * Nuova Giardini

Nuova Giardini is a large public park located between the municipalities of Gandava and Montreve. The land was ceded to the city of Montreve after the relocation of a former shanty town in 1845. It's design is inspired by Hyde Park. The Nuova Giardini is particularly for popular for parades and events, including the annual flower show. As of 2018 a designer creates a pavilion in the garden to showcase a guest country, in 2018 Canada was the guest.


 * Museo Serrato

Built in 1996 The Museo Serrato houses the largest and most significant public art collection in Malerno, and is listed as a heritage site of national significance. Its lineage extends back to a collection of works by the Genoese painter Luca Cambiaso purchased by the principality in 1688, which made it the second municipally owned and therefore open to the public museum in the world after the Basel Kunstuseum.

Its collection is distinguished by an impressively wide historic span, from the early 15th century up to the immediate present. Its various areas of emphasis give it international standing as one of the most significant museums of its kind. These encompass: paintings and drawings by artists active in the Upper Rhine region between 1400 and 1600, and on the art of the 19th to 21st centuries.


 * Fondation Bellinghi

Art dealers Giacomo Bellinghi and Maria Bellighi, created the Bellinghi Foundation in 1972 and commissioned Herzog & de Meuron to design a museum to house their private collection.


 * Museo Ferrando

The Museuo Ferrando is located in the former house and first workshop of the Ferrando&Angeli luxury brand.


 * Palazzo Cardo

Palazzo Cardo is a palatial fifteenth-century townhouse on the Via Cardo in Montreve. The Palace is believed by most scholars to have been designed for Leon Cardo by the architecture Gianluigi Borromi between 1446 and 1451 and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino. Its splendid facade was one of the first to proclaim the new ideas of Renaissance architecture based on the use of pilasters and entablatures in proportional relationship to each other. The Cardo Palace demonstrates the impact of the antique revival but does so in a manner which is full of Renaissance originality.


 * Piazza Lucese

The Piazza Lucese is the central plaza of Montreve. A piazza is commonly found at the meeting of two or more streets. Most cities have several piazzas with streets radiating from the center. Shops and other small businesses are found on piazzas as it is an ideal place to set up a business. Many metro stations and bus stops are found on piazzas as they are key point in a city.

Art
Montreve has it's own art institute and has been home to many local artists, from 1850's onwards the impressionist style was important, but in the 1950's the Malerno Minimalist Mouvement started from the Olgiati Gallery in 1956 when Constanzo Barrini exposed concrete sand, as a sculpture ready to be made into anything

Architecture
Montreve exhibits a wide range of architecture, but the principality's signature style, is Belle-Epoque. Decorative elements including turrets, balconies, pinnacles, multi-colored ceramics and caryatids and borrowed and blended to create a picturesque fantasy of pleasure and luxury, and an alluring expression of how Malerno sought, and still seeks, to portray itself. This capriccio of French, Italian and Spanish elements was incorporated into hacienda villas and apartments.

Music
Montreve has an orchestra, and Ballet Company Artedanza and a contemporary music scene featuring a few Indy artists

Sport
The Montreve Sporting Masters is held annually in Montreve, as a professional tournament for men as part of tennis's ATP Masters Series. The tournament has been held since 1922. Montreve has also hosted two Formula One races in 1933 and 1934. Montreve has also competed in the Olympic Games, although, no athlete from Montreve has ever won an Olympic medal.

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As of 2016, Montreve had an unemployment rate of 3.7%. As of 2008. 3,645 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 65 businesses in this sector. 28,130 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 180 businesses in this sector. There were 33,650 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 46.2% of the workforce.

Pharmaceutics
The Malernian chemical industry operates largely from within Montreve, and Montreve also has a small pharmaceutical industry. Liuzzo Pharmaceutics, Novachemica, and Fiaschetti Specialty Chemicals are headquartered there. Pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals have become the modern focus of the city's industrial production.

Luxury
Montreve is well known for housing luxry brands, including designers Eufebio Ferrando and Tullia Angeli.In economics, a luxury good (or upmarket good) is a good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises, so that expenditures on the good become a greater proportion of overall spending. The brand Ferrando & Angeli specializes in leather, lifestyle accessories, home furnishings, perfumery, jewellery, watches and ready-to-wear.

The firm is very attached to its traditional business model and rejects mass production, assembly lines, and mechanization. Ferrando & Angeli's goods are almost entirely made in Malerno by hand in middle-sized workshops known as "officina" that emphase high-quality manufacturing. Indeed, Ferrando & Angeli claims most items are fabricated from beginning to end by only one person, which is supposed to guarantee the quality and uniqueness of its products.

In 2012, Ferrando & Angeli retail outlets changed their policy regarding returns and exchanges of products. Consumers may only exchange items within ten days of purchase and only for another color variant of the original purchase. No other post-purchase exchanges are permitted, and refunds are never offered, regardless of the consumer's having a receipt.

=Transportation=

Montreve has an extensive public transportation network serving the city and connecting to surrounding suburbs, including a large tram network. The green-colored local tram and buses are operated by the by the MPG Transporto per Montreve, Padovesi, Gandava and also proposes regular shuttles to the Malerno International Airport. The blue-colored buses are operated by the TPM Transporto Per Malerno routes and connect areas in the nearby cities of Aquilea and Rossa. The Malerno M-Metro has only stop in Montreve, at Molo di Montreve, from which a cable car connects it with the city center, the cable car is currently being renovated by a company from Siculia.

In 2007, a congestion pricing scheme was implemented to reduce long-term parking and traffic while promoting business in the city. An ANPR-based automated system takes photos of vehicles as they enter and exit the charging zone and vehicle owners are billed according to the duration of their stay. Montreve is served by a fleet of electric taxis which transport riders from 10 points in Montreve to any destination in the Principality.

=Population=

The population as of stands at 55,259. 14,0912 residents or 5.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has changed at a rate of +1.3%. It has changed at a rate of 4.3% due to migration and at a rate of -3% due to births and deaths.

Irregular Migrants in Montreve
Irregular migrants who land in Malerno are subject to a compulsory detention policy, being held in several camps organized by the Armed Forces of Malerno (AFM), including those near Gandava in Montreve near the Zona Santora. The compulsory detention policy has been denounced by several NGOs, and in July 2010, the European Court of Human Rights found that Malerno's detention of migrants was arbitrary, lacking in adequate procedures to challenge detention, and in breach of its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Lydus Valens and the Gruppo Nazionale opposed the European Union by questioning its responsibility in handling the migrant crisis. Princess Cecilia Cardo spearheaded a Migrant Welcome scheme in 2016 with a grant of 700,000€, and has committed herself into turning the Zona Santora into an accessible housing area for these migrants.



Notable People

 * Prince Marco Cardo (1712-1772) - Founder of Montreve
 * Giancarlo Barisi (1745-1823) - Member of the clergy
 * Bonifacio Lucese (1885-1947) - Banker, founder of the Banca Santa Lucia
 * Guilermo Casetta (1922-1991) - Politician and Artist
 * Manuella Gaudini (1932-2003) - Actress
 * Prince Ardito Cardo (1956-1992) -  Former Leader
 * Princess Cecilia Cardo (1992- ) - Current Leader

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