Robbio is a city and ''

comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces ('' province''). The can ...

'' (municipality) in the

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in the

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region Lombardy, located about 50 km southwest of

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and about 45 km west of

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. It is part of

Lomellina The Lomellina ( Western Lombard: Ümlína/Lümelína) is a geographical and historical area in the Po Valley of northern Italy, located in south-western Lombardy between the Sesia, Po and Ticino rivers. It is one of three areal divisions of the ...

traditional region. Robbio borders the following municipalities: Borgolavezzaro, Castelnovetto, Confienza, Nicorvo, Palestro, Rosasco, Vespolate.

History

The area of Robbio was settled since

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times. A Roman centre name ''Redobium'' is attested by

Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic ...

.''Naturalis Historia'', XIX,9 Later it was a Lombard town and, later, a possession of the Catholic diocese of Vercelli. Around the 11th century it was acquired by the De Robbio family, who ruled it, together with the neighbouring area, until the 13th century, when it was contended between Vercelli and

. In 1220 the latter definitively acquired it through a diploma issued by

Emperor Frederick II Frederick II ( German: ''Friedrich''; Italian: ''Federico''; Latin: ''Federicus''; 26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250) was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Je ...

. Then part of the

Duchy of Milan The Duchy of Milan ( it, Ducato di Milano; lmo, Ducaa de Milan) was a state in northern Italy, created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then the lord of Milan, and a member of the important Visconti family, which had been ruling the city sinc ...

, it was entrusted to several feudal families. In 1748 it was acquired by the

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and, in the 19th century, it became part of the province of Pavia under the newly formed

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Main sights

*The medieval Castle, now a public park. * Romanesque church of St. Peter (13th century), housing 16th-century frescoes attributed to Tommasino da Mortara. *The 15th-century church of San Michele, with a late

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-style façade. *Church of ''San Valeriano'' (5th/6th centuries, originally entitled to St. Andrew), enlarged by

Cluniac The Cluniac Reforms (also called the Benedictine Reform) were a series of changes within medieval monasticism of the Western Church focused on restoring the traditional monastic life, encouraging art, and caring for the poor. The movement began w ...

monks in the late 11th century. The apse is now separated from the main building.

Notable people

People closely associated with Robbio include: *

Silvio Piola Silvio Piola (; 29 September 1913 – 4 October 1996) was an Italian footballer who played as a striker. He is known as a highly prominent figure in the history of Italian football due to several records he set, and he is regarded as one of the ...

(September 29, 1913 - October 4, 1996), a famous Italian soccer player. *

Enzo Emanuele Enzo Emanuele (born June 10, 1977) is an Italian clinical pathologist known for his interdisciplinary research in the field of biological psychology. He has studied the biochemical basis of romantic interpersonal attraction and identified the n ...

(June 10, 1977), a medical researcher.

References

External links

Official website

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