Lodi

Lodi was a Lombard city on the Adda, founded by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1158 after Milan destroyed the older commune of Laus Pompeia.

In the fourteenth century it passed through several local lordships into Milanese rule. In 1454 a peace signed at Lodi ended the wars between Milan and Venice. More than three centuries later, in 1796, Napoleon defeated an Austrian force at the bridge over the Adda.