The second half of the name is a coat of arms. The «Botti» are the Cingia branch of the Botti, or Botta, family, originally from Cremona, who held the place; and when the comune received its own insignia, by decree of the President of the Republic of 25 October 1999, it simply took theirs: azure, a fess chequy of silver and red, accompanied by three golden stars of eight rays, with a golden chief charged with a crowned black eagle. Beside the family arms, however, the shield puts a bell tower, and that is the real symbol of the village: the tower of Pieve Gurata, whose church is already named in a document of 876, was later destroyed and rebuilt in its present form in the sixteenth century; the bell tower is dated to 1164, and it is its outline that stands for the place.
Pieve Gurata, though, had been a comune. The parish was a community living in a small group of farms of the Contado of Cremona and in the mid-eighteenth century counted eighty-two inhabitants: the administrative reform of Lombardy willed by the empress Maria Theresa in 1757 suppressed the comune and annexed it to Cingia de' Botti, but a special dispensation went on considering it separately for census purposes, with officially defined boundaries. A village cancelled and at the same time kept alive on paper, for the accounting of souls. The rest of the comune lies in the plain east of Cremona, with the frazioni of Cà dei Corti, Casaletto di Sotto and Vidiceto, and it borders Scandolara Ravara and Motta Baluffi. Between 1888 and 1954 it also had a station, on the Cremona-Casalmaggiore tramway.
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