Albaredo Arnaboldi

Albaredo is recorded as early as 973, when the Pavia monastery of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro held property there, but the village seen today is not the one of that time: in the seventeenth century the Po slid southwards and cut the municipal land in two, leaving the old settlement on the wrong bank, where it quickly declined. A new village grew at the southern edge of the territory, called Albaredo dell'Ardino, and that is the one that remained. For centuries, although the two territories were not even adjacent, it stayed tied to the fief of Cigognola and passed with it to the Visconti Scaramuzza, the D'Adda and the Barbiano di Belgioioso.

The second name comes from an estate: bought after the end of feudalism by the lawyer Pompeo Gazzaniga, who financed Napoleon's Italian campaign, it passed by inheritance when his daughter married Count Bernardo Arnaboldi, a senator of the Kingdom, in 1863, and the surname has been in the municipality's name ever since. In 1928 Albaredo Arnaboldi was abolished and joined to Campospinoso in a municipality called Campospinoso Albaredo; in 1948 it stood alone again, and in November 2023, after a referendum won with ninety-four per cent of the vote, that municipality was recreated under the same name it had borne ninety-five years earlier.