Fresonara: sights, history and trails

Uncertain the origin of the name. According to the most widespread hypothesis, Frying it would have been Frassina to indicate remarkable woody extensions of landslides in the area, even considering that the territory was part of ♪ quoted by Paolo Diacono as a favorite place for the hunting trips of Lombard rulers. According to other hypotheses, the name would indicate existence in the place of a Saracen fortress or derive origin from the name of the Roman family of Fresus.

Donated in 969 by Queen Adelaide and Emperor Otto I at the monastery of San Salvatore di Pavia under the name "Frisinaria", it was later infeuded to Oberto di Rovereto (1100) who passed it to his heirs. In 1179 he was under the protection of the municipality of Alessandria. Falled in possession of Facino Cane, it was entrusted by these to its lieutenants Domenico Trotti and Rizzo dal Pozzo, who rebelled in 1404 to the captain of sell, who reacted destroying village and castle, drawing it to the ground. Feudo degli Anfossi, then the Guasco di Bisio and the Trotti di Vinzaglio, was part of the Duchy of Milan. In the eighteenth century he became part of the Saudi possessions.

Below is a table relating to the administrations that have succeeded one another in this municipality.

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  Detail of the municipality
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  The facade of the Church of the Nativity of Mary
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  The central nave of the Church of the Nativity of Mary
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  The bell tower of the Church of the Nativity of Mary