Lodi, exterior hood of a 15th-century tower demolished

Day before yesterday, the residents of Casaletto Lodigiano, a small town of three thousand inhabitants located between Lodi and Melegnano, on the outskirts of Milan, found themselves with one... piece less of their cultural heritage. In fact, some workers have demolished the external hood of one of the oldest buildings in the rural village, the so-called Borromean Tower, a building that moreover turns out to have the architectural bond of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. According to local historians, the tower was part of the ancient fortress of Casaletto, has probable fifteenth-century origins, is mentioned in some sixteenth-century documents, and remained standing even when the ancient fortress was heavily remodeled to be turned into a courtyard. The hood had been there for centuries, being part of the original structure.

The hood was unsafe (on Friday, a resident of Casaletto let us know, some bricks had fallen from the lower corner), which is why it was the subject of work: however, there are questions on village socials as to whether the entire demolition of the hood was really necessary to secure the building, and whether it would not have been sufficient to simply proceed by shoring up the artifact pending restoration. At present, it remains to be seen whether the intervention was authorized by the relevant superintendency.

In the collage: the Tower before the intervention, after, with the damaged corner, and with workers at work.

Lodi, exterior hood of a 15th-century tower demolished

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