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Pandino ( Pande in dialect Crema) is an Italian municipality of 8 781 inhabitants [first] of the province of Cremona in Lombardy.

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The toponym derives from the name of person Pandino , diminutive of Trying to / Pando of Germanic origin [4] .

Middle Ages [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Starting from the medieval age, the inhabited center belonged to the territory of the Gera d’Adda, a Milanese possession. The towns of Gradella and Nosadello, today hamlets, belonged to the Lodi countryside.

The first news documented on Pandino dates back to 1144, when the parish church appeared to depend on that of S. Sigismondo di Rivolta d’Adda, given that it indicates that the country at the time was probably made up of very few houses. The small village stands in an area characterized by the pre -eminence of woods, inframed by pastures and some vineyards.

The history of the Municipality changes radically when the Lord of Milan, Bernabò Visconti, makes you build one of his hunting castles, around the mid -‘300. From that moment on we can imagine that the presence of the Milanese lords has attracted to many people who were looking for a safe place to settle, perhaps hoping to find a job at the castle: the consequence was that Pandino slowly begins to enlarge.

The various feudal lords with the passage of time add other buildings: during the fifteenth century, Sforza ordered the Pandinesis to build the wall circle to protect the village from the Venetians, who were now a few kilometers from Pandino. In the same century, the church of S. Marta was raised in front of the castle, whose initial function is that of the church connected to the castle, as Bernabò Visconti had not wanted a chapel in his hunting manor. The appearance of the Madonna del Rest which leads to the construction of the sanctuary dedicated to her also dates back to the first decades of the fifteenth century.

The Pandinesis do not bring the construction of the walls to conclusion, which in some places are closed with terrapiens; The Venetians take advantage of it, conquer the village twice (also because it was protected by a few soldiers), however losing it after the battle of Agnadello of 1509; This fact does not prevent the Venetians a few years later, leaving cream that was in their hand, to plunder pandino.

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The French were not the only foreigners who passed through here: after the end of the Sforza in 1535 the Duchy of Milan passed to the Spaniards and the beginning of the ‘700 to the Austrians, and troops of these nations also passed through this territory; We have no news of damage caused at the end of the eighteenth century with Napoleonic troops.

Modern age [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

In 1786, Pandino was also aggregated to the province of Lodi, however returning after only five years to that of Milan.
The reconstruction of the parish church in neoclassical forms dates back to the last years of the 1700s, replacing the medieval church now ruined by time.

In the Napoleonic age (1809-16) to the Municipality of Pandino, Gradella and Nosadello were aggregated, originally in the province of Lodi-Crema, then suppressed, then in that of Cremona. The Municipalities proved autonomous with the establishment of the Lombard-Veneto kingdom and were definitively aggregated in 1869 [5] .

Between 1880 and 1920 the locality had a station placed along the Lodi-Treviglio-Bergamo tramway.

In 1928, after a public competition, the monument to the fallen in front of the castle was inaugurated on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Italian victory in the First World War; Even today it is possible to read the names of the Pandinese fallen of all the wars of the twentieth century on the tombstones.

During the Second World War, on one of the Castle towers, the telegraph’s threads are brought to report the passage of allied planes to the Germanic command; At that time the castle was inhabited by families for rent, to which were added the displaced from Milan.

Starting from the 1950s, the castle became the seat of the Municipality of Pandino.

Symbols [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

“Silver, with a natural lion, challenged with the front right branch a sword of gold sleeve, placed in the bar.”

( R.D. of 19 December 1928 )

The Gonfalone, granted with D.P.R. of March 19, 1959, is a black and yellow -shaped drape.

Religious architectures [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Among them we have:

Medieval architecture

Military architectures [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Internal courtyard and angular tower

The Visconteo Castle has an angular tower and an internal porch courtyard over time has gone from being a fortress with moat to be a simple residence Patrizia while maintaining much of the original appearance. Its conquest is following the decline of the Republic of Venice following the arrest of the advance to Milan.

Demographic evolution [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Inhabitants surveyed [6]

Foreign ethnic groups and minorities [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

As of 31 December 2020, foreign citizens are 1 041. The numerically significant national communities are [7] :

  1. Romania, 361
  2. Egypt, 153
  3. Albania, 74
  4. Morocco, 60
  5. Ecuador, 56
  6. India, 48
  7. Chinese, 48
  8. Ukraine, 47
  9. Peru, 24

Events [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

The spring fair has been carried out since 1887, it was originally characterized by an agricultural offer with cattle and machinery for agriculture, surrounded by traditional stalls. With the changing of the local economy, however, the fair has turned into a commercial fair, where there are many companies that exhibit the most varied products made.

The municipal area includes, in addition to the capital, the hamlets of Gradella and Nosadello [8] .

Roads [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

The territory is crossed by the following roads:

List of mayors from 1985 to today [9] .

Twinning [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Pandino is twinned with [ten] :

It is also linked by a friendship relationship with the Municipality of Sorano (GR) since 2005.

The G.S.D. Luisiana, who plays in the championship of excellence.

  1. ^ a b Data Istat – resident population at 31 December 2022 (temporary data).
  2. ^ Seismic classification ( XLS ), are rischi.protezionecivile.gov.it .
  3. ^ Table of the degrees/day of the Italian municipalities grouped by region and province ( PDF ), in Law August 26, 1993, n. 412 , attached a , National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, 1 March 2011, p. 151. URL consulted on April 25, 2012 (archived by URL Original 1 January 2017) .
  4. ^ Dictionary of toponymy, Utet, Turin, 1990-1997 RIST. 2010, ISBN 88-02-07228-0 pag. 557
  5. ^ Royal Decree n. 4454 of 14 June 1868.
  6. ^ Statistics I.Stat – state; URL consulted on 28-12-2012 .
  7. ^ Istat, foreign citizens at 31 December 2020 . are demo.istat.it . URL consulted on October 24, 2021 .
  8. ^ Art. 2 paragraph 1 of the municipal statute
  9. ^ Registry: Research and Archive on the website of the Ministry of the Interior
  10. ^ Municipalities twin with Pandino . are comune.pandino.cr.it . URL consulted on April 27, 2013 (archived by URL Original on 14 October 2013) .
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