San Cristoforo - History

History

Situated on an important via of communication that it carried to the ancient city of Libarna, it rose around to a sight tower: the so-called Tower of the Gazzolo, today encompassed in the castle. Preemption of the Obertenghi, passed in 1313 in fief to the Spinola di Luccoli, for disposition of Enrico VII emperor. The village had more times, and occupied in the 1625 from the troops franc-savoiarde and in the 1654 from the piemontesi. In the century XVI it passed to the Doria, like imperial fief until 1732, when becoming sabaudo.

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