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In 1750, the town was called “Crux”, ‘cross’ in Latin, to which in 1733 the “surname” Fieschi was added, since these Genoese nobles had been lords of this place since 1253.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first mention of the village dates back to the 11th century, when the bishops of Tortona had a castle built on the mountain behind the town, today called Monte Castello. It became the domain of the marquises of Gavi from 1140 to 1198 and then returned to the possession of the bishops of Tortona. In the 12th century it came under the dominion of the Malaspina family at the behest of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. At the end of the 13th century, the town returned to the possession of the Marquises of Gavi. The Marquis Guglielmo sold it shortly afterwards to the Municipality of Genoa. Around the middle of the 13th century, the fiefdom of Savignone, also including Croce, passed under the control of the Fieschi family, counts of Lavagna. The two fiefdoms, Savignone and Croce, were then administratively divided in 1678. The dominion of the Fieschi family lasted until 1797, when the Imperial Fiefdoms were suppressed by Napoleon Bonaparte. The last feudal lord was Agostino Innocenzo Fieschi; the French soldiers, before being able to occupy the town, were opposed for a long time by a handful of rebels, led by a certain Cavero, who had occupied the impervious Repasso area, behind the Borgo. The situation came to a head when a proud supporter of Napoleon, Antonio De Ferrari, led Napoleon’s soldiers through the Repasso paths, taking the rebels and Austrian soldiers, who were garrisoning the town, by surprise. The town was sacked, the feudal houses devastated and the rebels executed in the Braia woods. Cavero managed to escape, taking refuge in Vienna, and returned only after the fall of Napoleon. Crocefieschi returned, on 2nd December 1797, to the Department of Western Ligurian Mountains, with Rivarolo as its capital, within the Ligurian Republic. On 28th April 1798, Crocefieschi became the capital of the 1st Canton of the Jurisdiction of the Western Ligurian Mountains and, from 1803, the main centre of the XIII canon of the Alta Valle Scrivia in the Department of Genoa, and then, in 1815, it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Sardinia. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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What to see in Crocefieschi<\/h2>\n\n