title: Monticelli d'Ongina
text: # Monticelli d'Ongina
  
  Monticelli d'Onina (Piacentino: Muntṡéi) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Piacenza in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 130 kilometres (81 mi) northwest of Bologna and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Piacenza.
  
  Monticelli d'Onina borders the following municipalities: Caorso, Castelnuovo Bocca d'Adda, Castelvetro Piacentino, Cremona, Crotta d'Adda, San Pietro in Cerro, Spinadesco, Villanova sull'Arda.
  
  Sights include the rocca (a 15th-century fortress built by Rolando Pallavicino), now housing an ethnographical museum, and the Abbey Basilica.
  
  Natives of Monticelli d'Onina include the composer Amilcare Zanella.
  
  