Cervesina

Cervesina is what the Po has left. By shifting its course southwards, the river destroyed almost the whole village, which used to stretch along the right bank of the Staffora far further north than today; only the southern tip survived, and from there the settlement grew back, more compact and better sheltered. The same water had already taken the Rampina, a hamlet that stood by the old mouth of the Staffora and is no longer there.

The other half of the municipality is San Gaudenzio, which in the Middle Ages counted for more than Cervesina: it was the seat of a pieve, and several parishes of the area depended on it. A branch of the Beccaria made it a fief of its own and took its name from it; then, for want of male heirs, it passed by marriage to the Taverna of Milan, who held it until the end of feudalism. On the municipal arms there is a stag's head, for the name, and beneath it the arms of the Taverna.