Starting from the Middle Ages, Rivolta was an important control point for the nearby river pass. Of the ancient fortifications only the vault of access to the city and a short stretch of the walls still stand.
The well-preserved road system of the town converges towards the central square, in the middle of which stands the Romanesque basilica of St. Mary and St. Sigismund.
Started after 1030 ad, it was completed in the Twelfth century and has been modelled on the Basilica of St. Ambrose in Milan, an influence made even more transparent by the reconstruction of the lost parts, trying to preserve the original style, carried out in 1906.
Inside the oratory has only one nave covered by a large barrel vault divided into two bays. The main altar is placed in the presbyter, an important polychrome marble artefact built at the beginning of the eighteenth century on a design by Andrea Fantoni.
The element that makes this oratory unique is certainly the pictorial decoration of the central nave. The fresco decoration made in 1506 that covers the vault entirely with 104 rounds with Sibyls and Prophets and a series of panels with the Stories of the Virgin stand. The painters at work are two artists from Lodi: Giovan Pietro Carioni and Martino Piazza. The latter was one of Leonardo's first students in Milan and put into practice the teachings of the Maestro in the turn of the Revoltana, making it a precious incunabulum of Lombard Renaissance painting.
Following the Rivoltana towards Milan, just before the bridge over the Adda, you reach a centuries-old forest of over 100 hectares. It is here that in 1978 the Prehistory Park was established, home to more than 30 life-size reconstructions of prehistoric animals.
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