Pinarolo probably grew out of a Roman farming settlement, right on the border between the centuriated countryside that answered to Clastidium and the marshy valleys along the course of the Po: half measured and squared land, half swamp. In 1164 the area passed under the rule of Pavia, and the lordship fell to the Giorgi di Soriasco — of them what remains is the name of the hamlet Ca de' Giorgi. In the fourteenth century the Beccaria del Mezzano took over, and when they died out, in 1750, the Bellisomi of Pavia arrived.
Today's comune is the sum of swallowed villages. In the eighteenth century Pinarolo took in Tagliata, Besozzo and Pallasio: of the first two nothing is left, not even the place. Then came Ca de' Giorgi and Castellazzo Beccaria, now called Castellazzo Vecchio, and only in 1871 Negrera, which had been a comune of its own and before that joined to Corvino San Quirico. Of the feudal past the castle remains; the coat of arms is of 1956, and the village has a station on the Pavia-Stradella railway.
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