Torrevecchia Pia is a ''

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 also ...

'' (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 (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capit ...

. 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, Case ...

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

Marzano Marzano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 25 km southeast of Milan and about 14 km northeast of Pavia. Marzano borders the following municipalities: Ceranova, Lardira ...

, Valera Fratta and

Vidigulfo Vidigulfo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 20 km southeast of Milan and about 15 km northeast of Pavia. Vidigulfo borders the following municipalities: Bornasco, Cerano ...

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 ( it, Unità d'Italia ), also known as the ''Risorgimento'' (, ; ), was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the consolidation of different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single ...

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

References

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