People here call it the Berlin of the lowlands, and it is not just a local joke. Salvirola, whose inhabitants barely pass a thousand, was until a few years ago cut in two by the Madonna Gaiazza irrigation ditch: that thread of water was the border between the State of Milan and the Republic of Venice, and at the same time between the diocese of Crema and that of Cremona. Two states and two bishops in a single village, separated by a channel you can step across. On the coat of arms granted in 2001 a wavy blue band cuts the red field diagonally: the line stayed on even after the states disappeared.
The water that matters today is another. The Vacchelli canal, dug between 1887 and 1892 to bring the Adda into the Cremona plain, reaches Salvirola after leaping the Serio on a daring bridge, and here it splits: one arm ends up in the Naviglio di Cremona, the main branch runs on towards the Tombe Morte. So the municipality, which back in 1868 had already absorbed that of Triburgo, holds the point where the water decides where to go.
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