Botticino was created in 1928 by merging Botticino Sera and Botticino Mattina, today its frazioni along with San Gallo, at the foot of Monte Maddalena. The name is thought to come from Bottus, a Roman commander granted the Valverde, or from Bottius, a large owner of marble quarries in Roman times. The arms are divided in three: a silver barrel on blue, a factory with a smoking chimney on green, a silver Ionic column on red.
Marble is the story of the place: by the seventeenth century Botticino Mattina was known across the Republic of Venice for its stone, and the widest quarries lay here. In the early twentieth century the Brescian minister Giuseppe Zanardelli ordered the supply for Rome's Altare della Patria from Botticino and nowhere else; the same limestone carries the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. The old parish church of Botticino Sera, meanwhile, became a cinema in the 1930s, and only at the end of the 1980s did a restoration give it a fitting use again.
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