Villa Carcina

The comune has existed since 1928, when a royal decree joined Villa Cogozzo and Carcina under a new name; the settlements are still five — Cailina, Carcina, Cogozzo, Pregno and Villa — on both sides of the Mella, in the lower Val Trompia. At Carcina, the valley's first comune, stood the Porta della Valtrompia, the arch marking the passage from Brescia's jurisdiction to the Valley's: it also served as a toll house, and at sunset its gates were shut. Demolished under Austrian rule, its coat of arms is now above the doorway of casa Frassine.

From Roman times several stretches survive of the aqueduct that brought drinking water from Lumezzane's springs to Brescia; tradition called it the Devil's Conduit, and an old document of 1300 records it as Cuniculum Priegni. The town's arms, granted by no decree and simply used by the council, set a cogwheel with anvil and hammer beside a works with a smoking chimney, under the motto In labore et virtute.