In 1270 the castle was attacked and half destroyed by the militia of Ubertino Landi, lord of Bardi; those who defended it were the Pallastrelli, who in 1363 had to sell it and went off to Portugal. There they were given honours, and a descendant of theirs, Filipa Perestrello — that is, Pallastrelli — married Christopher Columbus.
The castle is of the early thirteenth century, raised perhaps over a Lombard tower: it was the outpost of Guelph Piacenza against Ghibelline Pavia, and it guarded the mouth of the val Tidone — until the end of the eighteenth century there was a river port below the Bosco di Litta that took you to the other bank of the Po. The church of Santa Maria Assunta was wanted in the eighth century by a Lombard prince, Burnengo, who was then buried under its threshold.
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📅 Every year, on 16 August, with the «San Rocchino» prize
Sarmato celebrates Saint Roch, its patron saint, on 16 August, with the award of the «San Rocchino» prize. The town holds the fountain that, according to tradition, the saint made spring from bare rock.
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Outside Sarmato, but an easy day trip away.
