Pozzuolo Martesana was simply Pozzuolo until 1864, when it took a second name from the Martesana district to avoid confusion with other places of the same name. The oldest form is in a parchment of the Bergamo chapter archive: a deed of sale of property at Medolago, drawn up in 1044 «Actum vico Pociolo». A second parchment has Pozolo, eighteenth-century spelling Pozzolo, and Milanese dialect still says Pozzoeu. The name probably comes from the local springs and fountains, and the coat of arms carries a golden well with its pulley iron, on which an eagle perches.
Older traces survive in the fields: a Roman tomb of imperial date at Bisentrate and Lombard burials that surfaced during work on the BreBeMi motorway; the Roman road between Mediolanum and Brixia passed here. The village still has the thirteenth-century church of San Francesco, first dedicated to Santa Maria: one of the earliest Franciscan houses in Lombardy, later suppressed. Under Napoleon, Bisentrate and Trecella were joined to Pozzuolo, and Bellinzago two years later; all regained independence, but Bisentrate and Trecella came back for good in 1869.
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