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Mary Most Holy Assumed into Heaven, patron of the Pallavicino Serbelloni Castle
📅 Every year, on 15 August
Castiglione d'Adda celebrates Mary Most Holy Assumed into Heaven on 15 August.
The name of Castiglione speaks of soldiers: it is said to come from castrum legionis, the camp, or from castrum Stiliconis, after the general Stilicho. Through here ran a branch of the Roman road that linked Milan to Piacenza, leaving Lodi Vecchio to reach Cremona. The d'Adda was added to it in 1863, to distinguish it from the other places called Castiglione scattered about Italy.
The fief changed hands many times: after belonging to the bishop of Lodi, in 1389 it went to the Fissiraga, then to the Fieschi, to the Pallavicino of Busseto, to the counts Serbelloni and finally to the Ordoño de Rosales. Of that past the castle remains, later become palazzo Pallavicino Serbelloni, with its rectangular plan, corner towers and a sixteenth-century rusticated front. In February 2020 the village was one of the Italian epicentres of the Covid pandemic.
The Castiglione d'Adda guide
What to eat here 1
Risotto alla Milanese
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Next up: Mary Most Holy Assumed into Heaven, patron of the Pallavicino Serbelloni Castle, Sunday 15 August
Getting there
Nearest airport: Milano Linate, 42 km away
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chiesa di Madonna di Campagna 📍 Verona · 14 km Sanmicheli's church built around a fresco that escaped demolition. Arena di Verona 📍 Verona · 18 km Four arches still standing after the 1117 earthquake, and opera on Roman steps since 1913. Casa di Giulietta 📍 Verona · 17 km Verona's most visited monument is a medieval tower house famously transformed into a shrine to Shakespeare's Juliet. Piazza delle Erbe 📍 Verona · 17 km The Roman forum turned marketplace: towers, frescoed palaces and a fountain from 1368. ponte Pietra 📍 Verona · 17 km Verona's Roman bridge, blown up in 1945 and rebuilt with the stones fished out of the Adige. Porta Vescovo 📍 Verona · 16 km Scaliger gate from 1287-1289, rebuilt by Venice in 1520 and later reshaped by the Austrians.