The oldest document that names Turano is from 924: a deed of sale of goods handed over by the nobleman Pietro Sommariva to the Vignati of Lodi, and what one reads in it is that of a castle, the Castri de Turano, only the remains were by then left — probably because it had been wrecked by the Hungarians who had come down into the peninsula. Earlier still, a branch of the Roman road between Milan and Piacenza passed through here, the one that left Laus Pompeia to reach Cremona. In the Napoleonic age the village had a curious reversal of fortune: from 1809 to 1816 it was reduced to a hamlet of Melegnanello, then it became independent again, and in 1869 it was Melegnanello that was suppressed and annexed to Turano, together with Robecco Lodigiano. The present name dates from 1928, to tell it apart from the other Turanos in Italy.
On the site where the castle had stood the Calderari built, between 1675 and 1723, the palazzo that bears their name, square in plan with a courtyard in the middle. On the parapets there were four big granite lions, and today they are no longer together: two stand at the mouth of the avenue leading to the Mairaga farmstead, here at Turano, and two at the entrance of the road to the Griona farmstead, which is already in Ospedaletto Lodigiano. From 1900 to 1980 the palazzo housed a girls' school run by the Canossian sisters of Lodi.
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📅 Every year, on 15 August
On 15 August Turano Lodigiano, a municipality of 1,538 inhabitants in the province of Lodi, celebrates the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Outside Turano Lodigiano, but an easy day trip away.
