Bagnolo Mella

Bagnolo Mella is an Italian metropolis of 12,693 populations within the province of Brescia in Lombardy. The municipality turned into awarded the name of metropolis on 12 January 2011 by means of the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano for ancient and cultural merits. The presence of a Bronze Age terramare is attested on the city of Fontanellato. The Roman Pagus advanced round it the Roman presence is attested by way of the invention of a stone committed to a veteran of the legio II Italica.

In Roman times the Brixiana road passed through Bagnolo Mella, a Roman consular road that connected the river port of Cremona, which become located alongside the Po River, with Brescia from which passed numerous Roman roads that branched towards the entire Gallia Cisalpina. Mazza 1986 hypothesizes that the castrum arose to address the barbarian invasions.

The first report testifying to its presence, together with that of a court docket of Frank or Long bard origin, dates returned to 1169. In it, the Bishop of Brescia reminds the nuns of the Monastery of Santa Giulia to pray for the soul of Countess Ferlinda, lived inside the 2^nd half of the 10th century, which had ceded the court of Bagnolo to the Bishop himself.