Medesano

Medesano is an Italian town of 10,843 population of the province of Parma. The first human agreement inside the place of Medesano arose inside the Bronze Age, within the II millennium BC, by way of the Terramaricoli, who built a small village near the Taro River. The settlements have been accompanied through other settlements however it became the Romans who created the primitive urban center of Medesano along Via Aemilia Scauri.

In the late imperial age the Castrum Medexani, possibly placed on the pinnacle of the cutting edge Poggio and became likely fortified due to its strategic role to guard access to the Taro valley, which with the Roman avenue allowed the crossing of the Apennine chain. The avenue and the locality greatly multiplied its significance specifically in the centuries that accompanied the invasion of the Lombard’s, which befell in 586.

Precisely for this reason, among 805 and 813 the bishops of Lucca Jacopo first and Pietro then bought some land within the region of Medesano, known on the time as Medexano, Metexano, Medasiano or Metasiano. In 835 the queen Cunegonda, widow of the king of Italy Bernardo, destined for testamentary will the same region to the monastery of Sant Alessandro di Parma, which she founded inside the identical year.