Pizzighettone

Pizzighettone
Country	Italy
region	Lombardy
province	Cremona  (CR)
Local name	Pisighitòn
Coordinates	45 ° 11 '  N , 9 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 11 '0 "  N , 9 ° 47' 0"  E
surface	32 km²
Residents	6,385 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	200 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	26026
prefix	0372
ISTAT number	019076
Website	Pizzighettone

Pizzighettone is a municipality with 6385 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Cremona in the Italian region of Lombardy .

location

The place is on the Adda in the middle of the Po plain . After Cremona in the southeast there is about 25 km away. To the motorways A 1 in the Southwest is 15 km away and the A 21 km in the south about 20 microns.

Bridge over the Adda

Districts

In the municipality are located next to the main town of the fractions Vacations, Regona and Roggione, and the dwelling places Cascina Crocetta, Cascina Sant'Eusebio Inferiore, Cascina Valentino and Cascina Vallate Ponte.

Memorabilia

• Parish Church of St. Bassiano of Lodi - three-aisled basilica from XII. Century, rebuilt in XVI. Century, Renaissance fresco of Kalvarienberg, fragments of Gothic altar of Mary with relief of the Nativity of Jesus (Antependium);
• Palazzo communale - town hall, 15th century
• Hll. Rochus and Sebastian Church - 15th century
• The fortress with fortifications from the 12th century, expanded in the 16th to 18th centuries, regional prison from 1866–1952, now a museum
• The Tower del Guado - formerly a prison where the French King Francis I of Valois was imprisoned in 1525

people

• Bassiano von Lodi († 409) patron saint of the city, celebrated on January 19th
• The cyclist Gaetano Belloni was born here in 1892.

See also

• Pavia – Cremona railway line

Web links

Commons : Pizzighettone  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ ISTAT - Dettaglio località abitate