Vidigulfo lies in the northeastern Pavese, on the plain between the Olona and Lambro Meridionale. The name, recorded from the eighth century as Vicus Lodulfi and later Vigudulfum, may derive from an early Lombard landowner, Lodulfo. The village was seat of an old pieve of the diocese of Pavia, with jurisdiction over the whole territory.
Part of the fief passed to the Landriani, lords of Landriano, whose arms still inspire the municipal one. The village belonged to the Vicariato di Binasco, Milanese territory joined to the province of Pavia in 1786, and stayed there after Binasco returned to Milan in 1859. In 1842 it absorbed the suppressed comune of Pontelungo, and in 1872 came Cavagnera, Mandrino and Vairano Pavese: Mandrino appears in 1191, in the diploma by which Emperor Henry VI set out the jurisdiction of Pavia. The U-shaped Landriani castle keeps a fourteenth-century core, raised on a fortification three centuries older; its entrance tower, under a pointed arch, holds a vault with fifteenth-century frescoes.
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