Torrevecchia Pia is a ''

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'' (municipality) in the

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in the

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region

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, located about 25 km southeast of

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and about 15 km northeast of

Pavia Pavia ( , ; ; ; ; ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, in Northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino (river), Ticino near its confluence with the Po (river), Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was a major polit ...

. Torrevecchia Pia borders the following municipalities:

Bascapè Bascapè is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about southeast of Milan and about northeast of Pavia. Bascapè borders the following municipalities: Carpiano, Casaletto Lodigiano, Casell ...

, Landriano, Marzano, Valera Fratta and Vidigulfo.

History

Torre Vecchia, as the community was known since the 11th century, was initially part of the feud of

, belonging to the homonymous family, then passing in the 16th century to the fief of Landriano, belonging to the Taverna. In the eighteenth century it was no longer in a fiefdom. Since the thirteenth century, if not earlier, it belonged to the Milan area, and precisely to the civil parish church of San Giuliano. In 1786 it was included in the province of Pavia. In 1863 it took the name of Torrevecchia Pia. In 1872, following

Italian unification The unification of Italy ( ), also known as the Risorgimento (; ), was the 19th century political and social movement that in 1861 ended in the annexation of various states of the Italian peninsula and its outlying isles to the Kingdom of ...

, the municipalities of Vigonzone and Zibido al Lambro were aggregated to Torrevecchia Pia.

References

Cities and towns in Lombardy {{Pavia-geo-stub