Lodi, Lombardy

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Lodi Lòd (Lombard)
Comune
Comune di Lodi
Piazza della Vittoria
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Lodi
St. Bassianus
Saint day	19 January
Website	Official website

Lodi (

Antiquity

Lodi was a

Lodi became the

Middle Ages

A free commune around 1000, it fiercely resisted the Milanese, who destroyed it in 1111. The old town corresponds to the modern Lodi Vecchio. Frederick Barbarossa rebuilt it on its current location in 1158.

From 1220, the Lodigiani (inhabitants of Lodi) spent decades in constructing a system of miles of artificial rivers and channels (called Consorzio di Muzza). It was created to give water to the countryside, turning arid areas into one of the region's important agricultural areas.

Rennaisance

From the 14th century Lodi was ruled by the Visconti family, who built a castle there. In 1413, the antipope John XXIII launched the bull by which he convened the Council of Constance from the Duomo of Lodi. The council marked the end of the Great Schism.

In 1454, representatives from all the regional states of Italy met in Lodi to sign the treaty known as the

The town was then ruled by the

In 1945, the Italian petrol company Agip, directed by Enrico Mattei, started extracting methane from its fields, and Lodi was the first Italian town with a regular domestic gas service.

The town is now at the heart of important communication routes, and is a technologically advanced industrial centre, maintaining, however, also its strong traditional ceramics tradition.

Main sights

• Piazza della Vittoria, listed by the Italian Touring Club among the most beautiful squares in Italy.
  Basilica della Vergine Assunta
  and the Broletto (town hall).
• Piazza Broletto, with a
  Verona marble
  baptismal font dating to the 14th century.
• Beata Vergine Incoronata, church in style of Lombard Renaissance
  .
• San Francesco, a Gothic
  -style church built in 1280–1307.
• San Lorenzo, a church with frescoes by Callisto Piazza.
• Santa Maria del Sole, a late Baroque-style Catholic church.
• Carlo Innocenzo Carloni and a Deposition attributed to Robert de Longe
  .
• Sant'Agnese, church in Lombard Gothic style (14th century). It includes the Galliani Polyptych by Albertino Piazza (1520), and has, on the façade, a rose window decorated with polychrome majolica.
• San Filippo, Rococo
  -style church
• Palazzo Vescovile (Bishopric Palace), of medieval origin but rebuilt in the 18th century.
• San Cristoforo, church designed by Pellegrino Tibaldi.
• Visconti Castle (Torrione), a medieval castle now partially destroyed.
• Palazzo Mozzanica (15th century)
• Palazzo Modignani, 18th-century urban palace
• Torre di Lodi, a modern building high 70 meters about. It is located in the Business District, and it is the tallest building in the city.
• Biblioteca Laudense located in Palazzo San Filippo, adjacent to church

Government

Economy

In 1864 Tiziano Zalli founded the Banca Popolare di Lodi, the first Italian cooperative bank (now part of Banco Popolare group).

In 1945, the Italian

Zucchetti S.p.A., the first Italian software house, was founded in Lodi in 1978 and has its headquarters in the Zucchetti Tower.^[5]

L’Erbolario Società Benefit S.r.l., a company specialized in natural cosmetics and beauty products established in Lodi in 1978, has its production plant and logistics center in the city.^[6]

IBSA Institut Biochimique SA, a Swiss pharmaceutical multinational company, has its Italian headquarters in Lodi, as well as a production plant.^[7]

The Officine Meccaniche Lodigiane were also located in the city. See it:Lodi.

Culture

Ceramics

The production of ceramic in the Lodi area reached its artistic peak in the 18th century, with the production of fine, tin-glazed maiolica. The main factories were those of Coppellotti, Ferretti and Rossetti.

The best ceramics of the Coppellotti factory date from the period 1735–1740. Some are in monochromatic turquoise and are decorated with arabesques, draperies and geometric-floral compositions arranged in a radial pattern. Other ceramics represent local life and scenes, such as fruit, fish, landscapes, castles, peasants, wayfarers, music players, with dogs or birds; some represent oriental figures.^[8]

The Rossetti factory was active in Lodi between 1729 and 1736. Most of the Rossetti ceramics are in monochromatic turquoise and have decorations inspired by Roman art revisited in a Baroque style, such as pillars, balustrades, capitals, urns, shells, stylized leaves garlands, divinities and satyrs. Some ceramics feature landscapes in the center, with views of cities and castles, hills, lakes, clouds and birds.^[9]

The Ferretti factory was active in Lodi in the 18th century until the beginning of the 19th century. Ferretti ceramics are famous for the decoration with naturalistic flowers, with very bright and lively colours.

A large exposition of Lodi ceramics could be visited in The Museo Civico di Lodi until its closure in 2011, when all its content was moved to long-term storage[13] waiting for relocation.^[14][15]

Twin towns

• Constance, Germany
• Lodi, California, United States^[16]
• Omegna, Italy.
• Fontainebleau, France.

Gallery

• 
  The

  facade of Lodi Cathedral

  and Piazza della Vittoria
• 
  Prothyrum

  of Lodi Cathedral
• 
  Rose window of Lodi Cathedral
• 
  Church of the

  Beata Vergine Incoronata (view of the interior and dome

  )
• 
  Interior of Church of Beata Vergine Incoronata
• 
  Painting by

  Bergognone representing the Visitation

  in the Church of Beata Vergine Incoronata
• 
  Painting by Callisto Piazza representing Salome presenting the head of Saint John the Baptist to Herod II
• 
  Facade of San Francesco Church
• 
  Open sky bifora in the facade of San Francesco Church
• 
  Frescoes in the Church of San Francesco
• 
  Cloister of Ospedale vecchio
• 
  Facade of San Filippo Church
• 
  Portal of Sant'Agnese Church
• 
  Broletto Palace viewed from Piazza della Vittoria
• 
  Broletto square in the night
• 
  Visconti Castle
• 
  Vistarini Palace
• 
  Mozzanica palace
• 
  Monument to the Italian resistance movement
• 
  Bridge on the river Adda

References