Garlasco

Garlasco is an Italian town of 9,770 inhabitants in the province of Pavia in Lombardy. The metropolis, considered one of the most important in Lomellina, is thought for the Sanctuary of the Madonna Della Bozzola, 2.5 km from the center, a destination for non secular pilgrimages. It is likewise popularly called Las Vegas della Lomellina or Las Vegas of Lombardy due to the high attention of leisure activities which have characterized it because the 1960s. Probably of pre Roman beginning as a minimum judging through the name, it's far cited for the reason that 10^th century in 981 it was donated through the emperor Ottone II to the monastery of San Salvatore of Pavia, at that point the various finest landowners inside the region.

In the 12th century, if now not earlier than, it became a part of the Pavia domain names, under which it changed into the seat of a Podesta workplace, ultimate for a long term as however the opposite most important centers of the Pavia location loose from feudal lordships. In 1356, at some point of the conflict between Pavia and the Visconti, Garlasco turned into besieged via the forces of the lords of Milan and, after a difficult siege, conquered.