Ombriano

Ombriano (called Umbrià in the local dialect) is a village which forms a suburban district of Crema, in the province of Cremona, in the region of Lombardy in Italy.

[2] In the Napoleonic age (1809–16), Ombriano became a part of Crema, but recovered its autonomy with the establishment of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia in 1815.

In the altars are kept paintings which were originally located in other churches including Christ calms the dragons and Mary fed by the palm by Giovanni Battista Lucini, the series on the Life of Mary by Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli, a Miracle of St. Anthony from Padua by Tommaso Pombioli, a Presentation of Jesus at the Temple by Giambettino Cignaroli, a Martyrdom of St. John the Evangelist by Palma il Giovane, a Madonna with Child attributed to Callisto Piazza, a Madonna with Saint Gottardo and Santa Barbara by Vittoriano Urbino.

[8][9] The Villa Benvenuti Clavelli is an elegant baroque building, which is made completely in exposed brick.

Villa Rossi is a grand palace of neo-Gothic style, rebuilt in the nineteenth century by Count Vincenzo Toffetti, which since has belonged to the Rossi Martini family, Senator Mario Crespi who during the Second World War moved there to edit and print the Corriere della Sera.