Road station
Acerras
Pizzighettone
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Acerrae, now Pizzighettone, was a fortified town of the Celtic Insubres that controlled the crossing of the Adda, a river the map does not draw. In 222 BC, after the battle of Clastidium, the Romans took and destroyed it; the Greek historian Polybius tells the story, and helmets from that time have been found here. The town was rebuilt and appears on the map as a station on the road from Lodi to Cremona.
Fully based on scientific information from TP-Online (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt). More on Wikipedia.
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