The best-known thing about Gaiba is a grave found in 1991: the burial goods of the lady of Chiunsano, the ornaments that accompanied the remains of a high-ranking Ostrogothic woman. She was not from here, and probably did not even live here: according to the scholars she was simply crossing these lands, as many did in those centuries of movement, and here she died and was buried. The find has given the village a small international fame.
The rest of Gaiba's history is in its coat of arms, which is unusually talkative: the crozier recalls that this land belonged first to the archbishops of Ravenna and then to the bishops of Ferrara, a jurisdiction tied to the Benedictine monastery of San Lorenzo alle Caselle; the blue band is the Po, which runs a few steps from the centre; the ears of wheat are the grain fields and the cogwheel is local craft and industry. The church of San Giuseppe was consecrated in the autumn of 1748.
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