Badia Pavese

The place was called Casule Abbatiae, the abbey's cottages, and it is written so as early as the ninth century: it had grown on the lands of the Lombard abbey of Santa Cristina, not far off. Italian kept the abbey and threw away the cottages; the dialect did the opposite, and here the village is still called Casél.

The arms say the rest: ears of wheat for the corn, two bands for the Po, which runs close by, and a heron, which is at home here and stands as well for the draining of the marshy ground. As a fief the village lay inside that of Chignolo Po, held by the Todeschini and then, from 1527 and by marriage, by the Cusani, until 1797.