Spino d'Adda

Until 1862 the village was just Spino; a royal decree added d'Adda and told it apart from the other Spinos. Two years earlier the province of Lodi and Crema was abolished and Spino passed to Cremona, while its church ties stayed with Lodi. In 1868 it took in Fracchia, a farming hamlet once part of Spino under Napoleon, then a council of its own again under the Lombardy-Venetia kingdom. On 27 April 1945, two days after the Liberation, a retreating German column was fired on at the edge of the village: ten people died in the reprisal, and the parish priest, Monsignor Giovanni Quaini, dictated the words on the plaque outside the town hall.

The sanctuary of the Madonna del Bosco stands on the country lane towards Barbuzzera. A wayside shrine stood there in the mid-fourteenth century, and the story goes that Alessandro Ciseri, taken in chains to the jail in Lodi, saw them break before the image and got away; he came back to leave the manacles and the chain as an ex voto, and they stayed until a theft took them in the later twentieth century. Offerings from the faithful paid for the church. Inside, the chancel runs on two levels, unusual among Marian sanctuaries in the Cremona area, with sixteenth-century frescoes above attributed to Callisto Piazza or his workshop.