Today, visiting this dinamic city, you can not image the 
milenar history which shines from the little ruins we 
have today. Since the Roman Ages it was a stragegic 
and commercial focus . The village at " Valle " was built
on the left side of the river  Versa at the beginning of 
the pretty  green hills, where Appennino goes over until
Po river; and the village at " Monte " called Montanino, 
they belonged  both in the  1000 year to the Bishop of 
Pavia. In the '300 the Bishop Guido Langosco wanted 
to build waals and bastions connecting Montalino's
fortress  ( still exhisting, today private home ) together
with the smaller at Stradella, today lost, we have just
the " embattled " Tower in the Main Square, the same 
repaired in the century after and become today the
Parish Church. In the centuries after the village has
the same destiny of  all Oltrepò until the 1743 when 
with the  " Worms " treaty the village and all the area
started to belong to Carlo Emanuele III Duca di Savoia.
Stradella's inhabitants tried to conquist the freedom in 
the 1799, after the abdication of the King Carlo 
Emanuele IV, but in the same year, the town was
occupied by the Russian- Austrian army. Napoleone 
Bonaparte reconquisted it with his army the year after, 
restablishing the Bishop administration, until the 1829,
year when  Bishop of Pavia Giuseppe Bertieri renouced
to his power on the city. Austrian army came back and
the people, always more resoluted to fight agains the
invasors in the years after, organised itself and finally in
the 1859 became a free area under Provincia di Pavia,
and in the 1865 it became a city.
Famous "Stradellino" adopted, Agostino De Pretis, 
elected member of the Parliament since the 1848, will be
candidated to guide the State in the 1865, in Stradella.
He was Prime Minister during the gevernment of the
"Historic left", for more than ten years, he died in 
Stradella on the  29th July 1987. Special and important 
guests of this city were Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giuseppe
Parini. Since the first years of the ' '800 the city had an
important economic role, in Provincia di Pavia, in the
production and commerce of the wine.
For long time it was the Land  of the "Accordion", 
invented and built since the  1876 by  "Mariano Dallapè", 
an artigian who found in Stradella his company, helping
with his genious to export all over the world  a
" Made in Italy " sound that sill today, even several
changements ramains a "sound"  which can make you 
fell magic and special emotions.
In the centre of the town, at the first floor of Garibaldi 
palace (where you can find the Municipal Library ) you
can also visit  the Accordion Museum "Mariano Dallapè".

The tower in Stradella

Monument to

De’ Pretis

Parish Church

San Marcello Basilica

Particular of De Pretis monument

Montalino fortress

representing  Garibaldi and Italia