Villa Biscossi

In the thirteenth century it was called Villa Piperatorum, and it took its present name from the Biscossi, the family that settled here at the end of that century. In the nineteenth century the estate was a model farm, known for the way it had modernised the work and the living conditions of its labourers: its produce went to the world exhibitions of London and Paris, and Victor Emmanuel II and Cavour were guests in the palace.

From here comes Sibillina Biscossi too, a fourteenth-century cloistered nun credited with the gift of prophecy: an altarpiece by Vincenzo Foppa is dedicated to her, today in Pavia. Outside the village stands a seventeenth-century chapel built by the Servite friars where a farmhand, struck on the head by a horse's kick, had come away unhurt; in 1946 the village paid for its restoration in thanks for the end of the war.