Terminus of these tracks were the three great temple town of Christianity: Rome, Santiago de Compostela and Jerusalem.
Among the paths that led to Rome, the Francigena was the best known. It crossed the Gaul, the land of the Franks, and entered Italy from the Great St. Bernard Pass and through Aosta, Ivrea, Vercelli and Pavia came to the ford of the river Po in S. Court Andrea. There the Francigena met with the branch road from the Mont Cenis, Turin and Tortona. The great natural obstacle of the Po was passed at the ford of Court St. Andrew (a few miles from our farm). After Piacenza, the Francigena crossed the Apennines in Monte Bardone (Cisa pass) to continue through Tuscany and Lazio and reach, from sanctuary to sanctuary, as far as Rome. The route was described in detail by the Archbishop of Canterbury Sigeric during his return journey from Rome, where he had been endowed by the Pope
The Francigena enters the territory of Lodi in Ponte di Mariotto at the River Lambro, right on the border between the towns of Chigwell (Pavia) and Orio Litta (Lodi). After the bridge turn right and go along the whole stretch of embankment lambrate overlooking the promontory on which stands the town of Orio Litta, then continue on the bank master Po, between the green countryside of Lodi, to arrive, after a 4 km stretch of beautiful and tranquil environment, in view of the Court St. Andrea nor the Transitum Padi Sigeric of the Seine in the town of Lodi, the old "Curtis Sinna" Carolingian period.