Ombriano (called Umbrià in the local dialect) is a village which forms a suburban district of Crema, in the

province of Cremona The Province of Cremona ( it, provincia di Cremona; Cremunés: ; Cremasco: ; Casalasco-Viadanese: ) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital city is Cremona. The province occupies the central section of Padana Plain, so the ...

, in the region of Lombardy in Italy. It is located 1.95 kilometers west of Crema proper, along the road to Lodi.

History

The locality is mentioned for the first time in 1092. It was then an agricultural village located along the road to Lodi. In the Napoleonic age (1809–16), Ombriano became a part of Crema, but recovered its autonomy with the establishment of the

Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia The Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia ( la, links=no, Regnum Langobardiae et Venetiae), commonly called the "Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom" ( it, links=no, Regno Lombardo-Veneto, german: links=no, Königreich Lombardo-Venetien), was a constituent land ...

in 1815. At the time of the

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in 1861 the village had 1,544 inhabitants. In 1865 the Municipality of Porta Ombriano was merged with the Municipality of Ombriano. In 1928 the Municipality of Ombriano was definitively annexed to Crema.

Monuments and places of interest

Religious architecture

Giovanni Battista Lucini - Christ calms the dragons

The parish church of

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dates back to 1779 and is completely in brick. Its interior is decorated by Angelo Bacchetta in 1890. In the altars are kept paintings which were originally located in other churches including ''Christ calms the dragons'' and ''Mary fed by the palm'' by Giovanni Battista Lucini, the series on the ''Life of Mary'' by Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli, a ''Miracle of St. Anthony from Padua'' by

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, a ''Presentation of Jesus at the Temple'' by

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, a ''Martyrdom of St. John the Evangelist'' by

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, a ''Madonna with Child'' attributed to Callisto Piazza, a ''Madonna with Saint Gottardo and Santa Barbara'' by Vittoriano Urbino. The

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are the work of Fra Luigi Cerioli.

Civil architecture

The Villa Benvenuti Clavelli is an elegant baroque building, which is made completely in exposed brick. It was built by the family of the Counts Clavelli and has belonged since 1818 to the branch known today as "di Ombriano", one of the most illustrious families of the

Province of Cremona The Province of Cremona ( it, provincia di Cremona; Cremunés: ; Cremasco: ; Casalasco-Viadanese: ) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital city is Cremona. The province occupies the central section of Padana Plain, so the ...

. Villa Rossi is a grand palace of neo-Gothic style, rebuilt in the nineteenth century by Count Vincenzo Toffetti, which since has belonged to the Rossi Martini family, Senator Mario Crespi who during the Second World War moved there to edit and print the

Corriere della Sera The ''Corriere della Sera'' (; en, "Evening Courier") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average daily circulation of 410,242 copies in December 2015. First published on 5 March 1876, ''Corriere della Sera'' is one of I ...

.Philippe Daverio, ''La buona strada: 127 passeggiate d’autore a Milano, in Lombardia e dintorni'', Rizzoli, 2015

References

{{authority control Former municipalities of Lombardy Frazioni of the province of Cremona