On the evening of the eleventh of May 1802 the water level dropped in the wells of the area and a smell of sulphur was noticed; a first shock was felt around six. The next morning, about half past nine, the strong one came: the earthquake of the Oglio valley, with its epicentre near Soncino, struck a score of villages and was felt as far as Lodi, Cremona and Brescia. At Romanengo the parish church collapsed, and a few years later had to be rebuilt from scratch: the church of Santi Giovanni Battista e Biagio you see today is the daughter of that morning. The shocks went on until the twenty-fourth of June.
The village stands on the pianalto of Romanengo, a raised shelf in the middle of the plain, in a country of resurgence springs: together with Casaletto di Sopra and Ticengo it forms the Lombard Union of the Fontanili municipalities, and the territory is crossed by the Naviglio della Melotta, today a nature reserve. Between 1880 and 1931 the Lodi-Crema-Soncino tramway passed here, with a stop in the village. Three thousand and twenty-one inhabitants in the province of Cremona.
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📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of October
Romanengo celebrates Saint John the Baptist and Saint Blaise on the first Sunday of October, in the church dedicated to them.
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Outside Romanengo, but an easy day trip away.
