Volpedo

Giuseppe Pellizza, painter of Il quarto stato, was born here, and reproductions of his canvases now stand around the streets at the very spots he painted. The village sits on a low hill where the Curone stream leaves the hills for the Po plain, its old core still marked by 16th-century bastions. Fruit is the local trade, peaches above all.

Highlights

• The Romanesque Pieve di San Pietro, with 15th-century frescoes by the Boxilio brothers
• Pellizza's house and studio
• A walking trail of 18 Pellizza reproductions set where he painted them
• Il quarto stato, recreated with a posed group in Piazza Quarto Stato
• Volpedo peaches, sold at the covered fruit market built in the 1930s

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.