The first papers that name Spineda are of 1034 and concern an exchange made by Ugo, son of the count of Sabbioneta; a little later a piece of land here is given to the canons of Cremona. Then the place belonged to monks: in 1177 Frederick Barbarossa confirmed the rights of the Benedictine abbey of Leno over Spineda, and those rights later passed to the abbey of San Benedetto in Polirone. At the end of the twelve hundreds the village came under the comune of Cremona, and from then on it found itself standing on a border. At the beginning of the fifteenth century there was armed fighting here because the duchy of Mantua was expanding; and under the Visconti, Spineda underwent Venetian occupation from 1427 to 1438.
During the Spanish domination the village was sacked twice by lansquenets: in 1628 and again in 1702, seventy-four years apart, by the same kind of soldiers. And in the Second World War Spineda was the object of a nazi-fascist reprisal: some houses were set on fire and fifty-eight residents were imprisoned. Of what the village keeps there remain Villa Cavalcabò and the church of San Salvatore, built in the eighteen hundreds; the coat of arms was granted in 1938.
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