The best walks and hikes around Lodi Vecchio

The Adda River is the fourth longest watercourse in Italy with its 313 kilometers and is entirely within the Lombardy region. It represents one of the main left tributaries of the Po River and has a very large hydrographic basin that covers about a third of the regional territory.

The Adda River is the fourth longest watercourse in Italy with its 313 kilometers and is entirely contained within the Lombardy region. It represents one of the main left tributaries of the Po River and has a very large hydrographic basin that covers about a third of the regional territory.

The Adda River is the fourth longest watercourse in Italy with its 313 kilometers and is entirely contained within the Lombardy region. It represents one of the main left tributaries of the Po River and has a very large hydrographic basin that covers about a third of the regional territory.

Montanaso Lombardo is an Italian municipality of 2,243 inhabitants [2,244] located in Lombardy, in the province of Lodi. The village is situated a few kilometers from the provincial capital Lodi, immersed in the Po Valley and bordered by the waters of the Adda river and the Muzza canal.

Canale Muzza is the oldest diversion of the Adda River. Its origin dates back to Roman times and in the 13th century (1220 - 1230) the current route was created, about 60 km long, which "fishes" the waters of the Adda at Cassano, crosses the Lodi territory for about 39 km up to Castiglione and here reintroduces them into the Adda. Currently, the waters of the Canale Muzza are mainly used for: • agricultural irrigation; • cooling of the thermoelectric power plants of Cassano and Montanaso - Tavazzano; • powering 4 small hydroelectric power plants; • water supply for fish farming.

The square in front of the castle is nice and you can have a good gelato or sweets there.

The story told by Giovanni Guareschi – the literary "father" of "Don Camillo and Peppone" – ends with the sentence, "Things happen there, in that strange place... where people think more with their clubs than their brains, but where at least they respect the dead." To understand it, one must recall the political situation in Italy at that time, immediately after the end of the Second World War: The monarchy had been abolished, the royal family was in exile, and the Communists were partly in power (including in Don Camillo's village). In the story "The Old Schoolteacher," the aforementioned lady, who had taught generations of villagers the ABCs, has died. She had expressed her last wish to Mayor Peppone and Don Camillo that she be buried with her flag – the old one "with the coat of arms" from the time of the monarchy – placed over her coffin. However, all the factions of the town council had spoken out against it, to which Peppone replied: “So I tell you… that I don’t give a damn about your opinion and that Signora Cristina will go to the cemetery tomorrow with the flag she likes, because I value her more dead than you alive.” Hence the sentence quoted at the beginning, “where at least the dead are respected.”

Beautiful bridge to Napoleon Bonaparte