Patron saint festival In 255 days
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Ospedaletto Lodigiano, a municipality of 1,853 inhabitants in the province of Lodi, celebrates its patrons Saints Peter and Paul.
In the middle of the village stands a triumphal arch. The French general Chevilly had it built in 1804 and dedicated it to Napoleon; it is called the Arch of Peace. After the two world wars, on the arch dedicated to the conqueror they added the plaques with the names of the village's dead and missing: a monument to a general became the monument to everybody's dead.
The name, on the other hand, comes from a hospital. There was one here in ancient times — it was also called Ospedaletto di Senna — and in the fifteenth century the Gerolimini monks built the abbey beside it, taking over the hospital's property; the monastery was suppressed by the French in 1797. On the coat of arms there is a cock, recalling saint Peter, patron along with saint Paul, and under its claws leafy branches: they may be the herbs with which the friars treated the sick. In 1863 the village added «Lodigiano» so as not to be confused with the other Ospedalettos.
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Royal Palace of Caserta 📍 Caserta · 18 km The Bourbon palace: 1,200 rooms, 1,742 windows and three kilometres of fountains uphill. Belvedere di San Leucio 📍 Caserta · 15 km UNESCO Bourbon complex at San Leucio, with royal apartments, Italian garden and Silk Museum. Oasi Bosco di San Silvestro 📍 Caserta · 15 km WWF oasis of 1993 on the hills of Montemaiulo and Montebriano, a former Bourbon royal estate of 76 hectares. Fontana di Diana e Atteone 📍 Caserta · 15 km Fountain with marble groups of the myth of Diana and Actaeon, at the end of the Italian garden of the Reggia di Caserta. Castello di Casertavecchia 📍 Caserta · 18 km Ruined castle of Casertavecchia, with a great sixteen-sided cylindrical keep. chiesa di San Rufo 📍 Caserta · 17 km Medieval parish church of Piedimonte, in tuff, with an exposed dome, fifteenth-century frescoes and a cippus of 1556.