Pessina Cremonese - Pessina Cremonese

Pessina Cremonese is a center of the Lombardy.

To know

Geographical notes

The town is located in the Po Valley, in the lower Lombardy region of Cremona; its territory is located on the right bank of the Oglio. It is 20 km away. from Cremona, 31 km. from Casalmaggiore, 50 km. from Mantua.

Background

The history of Pessina is similar to that of the other centers located on the right of the Oglio. In the communal period it entered the orbit of the Municipality of Cremona, which fortified these places to defend the border marked by the Oglio with the lands subject to the Contado of Brescia, which in ancient times had expanded its dominion over much of the territory to the right of the Oglio and up to the Po.

In Monticelli Ripa d'Oglio, the center of the territory of Pessina Cremonese, the existence of a castle is confirmed as early as the 10th century. In 1060 a papal bull included it among the lands subject to the monastery of Santa Giulia in Brescia, while in the 11th and 12th centuries it belonged to the convent of San Lorenzo di Cremona. The importance of the town, as well as for its fortifications, was due to the presence of a port on the Oglio river, which allowed important river trade to the Municipality of Cremona, to which it was connected by one of the most important roads that branched off from the capital. the countryside.

The village of Villarocca, another fraction of Pessina Cremonese, already in the name presents itself as a fortified village, located like Monticelli right on the Oglio shore. In the thirteenth century Buoso da Dovara bought the castle, in which he took refuge after being expelled from Cremona. In 1269 it surrendered after a siege; on that occasion the castle was razed to the ground; traces of it remained visible still in the nineteenth century in a farmhouse called Rocca.

Stilo de 'Mariani and Sant'Antonio d'Anniata are the other villages that make up the municipal territory of Pessina Cremonese.

How to orient yourself

How to get

By plane

• Airport greens of Parma - km. 24
• Airport Catullus of Verona - km. 88
• Airport D'Annunzio of Montichiari (BS) - km. 54
• Airport Caravaggio of Orio al Serio (BG) - km. 136
• Airport Marconi of Bologna - km. 110

By car

It is just north of the former Cremona - Mantua.

On the train

• Station a Torre de 'Picenardi on the line Cremona - Mantua.

How to get around

What see

• 45.1846110.2470981 Parish Church of San Giorgio, Via Margini. The building is in Gothic style, designed at the end of the nineteenth century by the architect Tancredi Venturini. Built in red brick, the church has a gabled façade, a large central rose window and polychrome ceramic plates decorating the façade under the sloping eaves. 
• Villa Casali. What you see now is what remains of a refined eighteenth-century villa that was built on the site of an ancient convent. The partial demolitions it underwent were carried out shortly before the Second World War. It has a large garden with a pond, mounds, caves. 

In Monticelli Ripa d'Oglio

• Cascina Convent. It is a robust complex used for agricultural activities, which was once a convent of the Olivetan friars. This religious order was invested with the church of Monticelli and the lands owned by the same in 1546 by Cardinal Gambara. 
• Parish Church of the Virgin Mary of the Annunciation. Close to the Cascina Convento, the church of Monticelli has a single nave and is small in size; inside it has three marble altars. The main altar is surmounted by a small temple in red Verona marble. 
• Oratory of the Dead. The oratory of the dead is a small religious building that serves as the chapel of a small cemetery along the road that leads to Villarocca. It belonged to the Pallavicini marquises of Genoa, who owned the lands of Monticelli. 

In Villarocca

• 45.19356610.2651612 Parish Church of San Leonardo. The church of Villarocca has eighteenth-century lines and stands on the square bordered by Villa Fraganeschi, by ancient buildings and by a large farmhouse. The bell tower is moved away from the church to which it is connected a hanging gallery supported by an arched passage that allows access to the parish house. 
• 45.19429910.2649643 Villa Fraganeschi. The large villa Fraganeschi occupies the whole side of the square opposite the parish church, and with the cottages it stretches for a long stretch in the side streets. The body of the villa stands out beyond the large entrance gate beyond a garden bordered by the high wall, by small buildings on the sides of the gate and by a rustic wing that starts on one side of the villa and extends up to to the wall. The nineteenth-century additions of two towers of different sizes that are placed in asymmetrical positions with respect to the Villa are added to the neoclassical language of the building. Currently (2013) the whole complex is in a deplorable state of neglect and total decay. The wall is almost in ruins, the villa is abandoned, the shutters are falling, the garden has turned into a shapeless space covered with all kinds of weeds. The inhabitants of the village tell that in the villa, abandoned to itself after the death of the last owners, there have been numerous episodes of vandalism, but above all furniture, paintings, furnishings, even the upholstery have been stolen. Despite its disastrous state, the villa, together with its complex of cottages, exudes a strong charm and still manages to be appreciated for its sober majesty. 

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To Stilo de 'Mariani

• 45.1632610.2532794 Parish Church of Sant'Andrea Apostolo, Street of the Church. It is completely decentralized from the town and surrounded by the countryside. On the facade there are modern mosaics from the 1960s. 

In Sant'Antonio d'Anniata

• Oratory of Sant'Antonio Abate. Its construction dates back to 1767, when it was built on the site of a previous church. Its current appearance dates back to 1846 when the façade was replaced and the bell tower was rebuilt which ends with a belvedere terrace. 
• Urban plan. The complex of buildings of the Sant'Antonio d'Anniata settlement was completely rebuilt in the first half of the nineteenth century on the remains of the ancient convent of the Antonian monks of Cremona and on its agricultural possessions: a manor house with garden, peasant houses, shops , stables, cottages, built according to the most advanced criteria of the time, with a modern attention to health standards. Thus a great one was born country farmhouse which constituted a district that stretched along the side of the Cremona - Mantua state road; the complex represented the most òodern organization of the time for the management and management of the vast agricultural estate of its designer, the Milanese Giuseppe Negri. This village - farm which stretched for 320 meters came to be inhabited by 245 people. Currently, the integrity of the nineteenth-century project has been compromised both by subsequent building interventions, and by the abandonment of part of the buildings, consequent to the revolution that occurred in the following century with the mechanization of agricultural work that led to the abandonment of the countryside and the emptying of the numerous farmhouses - villages in the area. 

Events and parties

What to do

Shopping

How to have fun

Where to eat

• 45.16644110.2828461 Driver's restaurant, Piadena External Road 24 (in the locality of Ca 'de' Ferrari). 

Where stay

Safety

How to keep in touch

Post office

• Pessina Cremonese, Via Sigismondo Baroli 24, ☎ 39 0372 87954. 

Around

• Pieve Terzagni
• Cremona - It has a monumental historic center - the Cathedral, the Baptistery, the Town Hall - one of the most distinguished in Lombardy. It was a Roman city. It was powerful at the time of the Communes and rivaled Milan, which finally subdued it. His violins (Stradivari and Amati), his Torrazzo and even more his torrone, are known everywhere.
• Sabbioneta - City of foundation, UNESCO World Heritage Site, maintains the walls within which the magic of ideal urban planning by Vespasiano Gonzaga has remained intact; the Teatro all'Antica, the Palazzo Ducale, the Gallery, the Incoronata church are some of its monuments that stand out in a context that has been admirably preserved.
• Torre de 'Picenardi - Villa Sommi Picenardi developed from a pre-existing castle nucleus; starting from the sixteenth century it was transformed in the following centuries up to its present appearance. A body of the villa, in neoclassical style, overlooks the town square. A second factory develops inside and is connected to the ancient body of the primitive castle. A large garden surrounds the villa complex, surrounded by a large moat with water.
• San Lorenzo de 'Picenardi - Its castle, built in the fifteenth century, was enlarged over time to then arrive at its present form, majestic and decidedly castellana, in the nineteenth century, the work of the architect Luigi Voghera. The vast building, in perfect condition, shows numerous crenellated towers which give it the characteristic medieval aspect, however mitigated by the elegant character of a noble castle residence. It is surrounded by a large park.
• Cicognolo - Exposed terracotta and marble make the impressive and varied appearance of the imposing Manfredi castle, scenographic in the green of the lawn that embellishes the ground in front of the main facade, with a romantic garden and moat behind it.
• The river area of ​​Pessina Cremonese is part of the South Oglio Park (headquarters in Calvatone), a protected regional area that extends from the Oglio Nord Park to the confluence with the Po. The river areas of the territories of Acquanegra sul Chiese • Canneto sull'Oglio • Casalromano • Marcaria • Ostiano • I want to on the left bank; Cocoon • Calvatone • Commessage • Halyard • Gazzuolo • Dovarese Island • Pessina Cremonese • Piadena • San Martino dall'Argine • Viadana on the right bank The area is affected by a cycle path of about 60 kilometers that winds through the interesting habitat of the countryside and the Oglio floodplains.

Itineraries

• In the lands of the Gonzagas - An itinerary through the centers, large and small, which were the capitals of the Gonzaga cadet branches: principalities, marquisates, duchies which, within the Mantuan state structure, enjoyed real independence, often minted coins and held refined courts that rivaled that of Mantua, embellished their urban centers by equipping them with elegant architecture - churches, squares, palaces, walls, towers - and characteristic urban views such as the typical Gonzaga arcades.

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