Lodi
Lodi is a city and comune in Lombardy, northern italy, on the right bank of the River Adda. It is the capital of the province of Lodi.
Main sights
Main sights
- Piazza della Vittoria, listed by the Italian Touring Club among the Most Beautiful Squares in italy. Featuring porticoes on all its four sides, it includes the Basilica della Vergine Assunta and the Broletto (Town Hall).
- Piazza Broletto, with a Verona marble baptismal font dating to the 14th century. Church of the Beata Vergine Incoronata, considered one of the masterworks of the Lombard Renaissance.
- Church of San Francesco, built in 1280-1307.
- Church of San Lorenzo. It has a nave and two aisles, with frescoes by Callisto Piazza.
- Church of Santa Maria Maddalena, the best example of Baroque architecture in the city. The original Romanesque structure dated to 1162, but was remade in the early 18th century. The interior is on a single nave with side chapels, featuring, among the several artworks, frescoes by Carlo Innocenzo Carloni and a Deposition attributed to Robert De Longe.
- Church of Sant'Agnese, in Lombard Gothic style (14th cneutry). It includes the Galliani Polyptych by Alberto Piazza (1520), and has, on the façade, a rose window decorated with polychrome majolica.
- Church of San Filippo Neri, in Roccoco style. Palazzo Vescovile (Bishopric Palace), of medieval origin but rebuilt in the 18th century.
- Church of San Cristoforo, designed by Pellegrino Tibaldi. Visconti Castle (Torrione), a medieval castle now partially destroyed.
- Palazzo Mozzanica (15th century)
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