Arzago d'Adda (
Bergamasque
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Bergamasque has official status in the ...
: ) is a ''
comune
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'' (municipality) in the
Province of Bergamo
The Province of Bergamo ( it, provincia di Bergamo; lmo, proìnsa de Bèrghem) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. It has a population of 1,112,187 (2017), an area of , and contains 243 '' comuni''. Its capital is the city of Bergamo ...
in the
Italian
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region of
Lombardy, located about east of
Milan
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and about southwest of
Bergamo
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.
Arzago d'Adda borders the following municipalities:
Agnadello,
Calvenzano,
Casirate d'Adda
Casirate d'Adda (locally ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about east of Milan and about southwest of Bergamo
Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements ...
,
Rivolta d'Adda
Rivolta d'Adda ( lmo, Riólta) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cremona in the Italian region Lombardy, located about east of Milan and about northwest of Cremona.
Rivolta d'Adda borders the following municipalities: Agnadello ...
,
Vailate. Sights include remains of a
Roman villa
A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house built in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions.
Typology and distribution
Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) distinguished two kinds of villas ...
from the imperial age, the castle of the marquises ''de Capitani d'Arzago'' (turned into a noble residence in the 16th-17th century), the manor ''Ravajola'' of the noble family ''de Sessa'' and the medieval
pieve
In the Middle Ages, a pieve (, ; la, plebe, link=no; plural ''pievi'') was a rural church with a baptistery, upon which other churches without baptisteries depended.
The Italian word ''pieve'' is descended from Latin
Latin (, or , ) i ...
.
References
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