Castelverde has on its coat of arms a castle that probably never existed. The main village was called Castagnino Secco, and that secco, dry, does not refer to any dryness of the soil, since the area is well watered: it would rather be a corruption of the name of bishop Sicardo, who in 1191 invested the Sommi family with the fief. The comune, however, was already called Castelverde, and having two different names for the authority and for its own main village created confusion, made worse by the fact that the post office, though it stood in the main village, was named Livrasco.
The town council therefore decided to give the main village the name of the comune, and with the decree of 1957 Castagnino Secco disappeared from every official document; in dialect, though, the older people go on saying Castegnìn. The territory came into being by putting many pieces together: the maps of Lombardy-Venetia of 1836 show it divided into ten comuni. Before that there was water, because the area was part of that tangle of marshes and dead river branches they called the lake Gerundo, and the name of the hamlet Costa Sant'Abramo is said to come from its ancient shore.
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