The last 2 km into town was an elevated path snaking through farm fields, basically a berm. I wondered what it was for. Pierluigi mentioned that when the monks came the farming was hard because the two rivers, the mighty Po and a tributary flooded the fields most years. So they built these giant berms to hold back the flood waters from the fields.
We had just crossed into Lodi, some level of political unit, and the VF signage suddenly got much better, including Camino-like pillars (photos later). Not piled with stones like the ones on the Camino so we started the tradition by carrying stones for a while for people we love and putting them on the little pillars.