The name says a bridge: it comes from the Latin pons Coronis, the bridge over the Curone. It is first found in writing in 962, when Otto I gave the Pavia monastery of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro certain possessions, among them the place called Ponte Coironum. At the end of the sixteenth century the town is drawn, as Pons Coronis, in the Gallery of Maps of the Vatican Museums.
One bridge cost Pontecurone dear: the railway bridge over the Curone was bombed several times by the Allies, because both the Alessandria-Piacenza and the Milan-Genoa lines run over that stretch. In 1635, instead, the army of Odoardo Farnese routed the Spanish here, and their commander died in the fight.
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