Castle of Calvagese, a small fortress of which little remains, it is still visible a part of masonry on the west side, interrupted by a small semicircular tower and the entrance placed on the north-west corner of the irregular perimeter of the castrum. The entrance is open at the base of the tower, formed as always from pebbles of various sizes, collected in the river, with some more regular stone on the outer edge; next to the entrance there is an advanced body like a side rill. On the inside façade of the entrance a square recess in the wall and an ogive window. The first documents concerning the castle of Calvagese are those concerning a land exchange between the bishop of Brescia and that of Cremona around the years 996 and 1007; then it seems that it passed into possession of Ugo Poncarali and finally, around 1200, to the monastery of Leno, as can be seen in the note of the fiefs of that abbey completed in 1192 where it is written: ” loco Calvazesi extra castrumexcepis armannis”. Which arimanni were exempt because they depended on the counts of S. Martino. The history of this castle is then confused with that of the neighbors Carzago and Bedizzole, suffers the usual occupations of small mercenary armies of the fifteenth century and then disappears from history.

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historical sources: Fausto Lechi