In 1867 the municipality of Sesto changed its name to Sesto ed Uniti, that is Sesto and the united ones, to prepare for the annexation of Canova del Morbasco, Cortetano and Luignano. The merger took place a few days later: for a few days, then, the village bore the name of a union that had not yet happened. The first half of the name is a count as well: Sesto comes from Ad Sextum, the sixth mile from Cremona along the via Regina, the Roman road that climbed from the city's river port towards Chiavenna by way of Milan.
The municipality is a scattered one: the chief town is Sesto Cremonese, but the hamlet with the most inhabitants is Casanova del Morbasco, along the old road to Cremona, while Cortetano and Luignano are above all clusters of old farmsteads north of the Paullese road, which cuts the territory in two. Bredalunga, annexed in the Napoleonic age, regained a short-lived autonomy and was definitively joined in 1841. The station of Sesto Cremonese stood on the Cremona-Iseo railway, opened from 1911 and closed in 1956. Three thousand and seventy-five inhabitants.
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