page_title: Gravellona Lomellina
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Gravellona Lomellina / History
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Stemma della famiglia Barbavara di Gravellona
context_page_description: Gravellona Lomellina is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 35 km southwest of Milan and about 35 km northwest of Pavia.
  It's an agricultural town.
  Gravellona Lomellina borders the following municipalities: Cassolnovo, Cilavegna, Tornaco, Vigevano.
context_section_description: The very first traces of a settlement in this location date from the late Bronze Age, with the pre-Celtic Golasecca culture.
  Toponomy could be from the etruscan.
  A Roman settlement is testified by some traces such as two coffins and some coins from the first Empire period.
  According to tradition, before the Battle of Ticinus, Hannibal built the carthaginean camp amongst the nowadays towns of Gravellona, Cassolnovo and Piccolini, hamlet of Vigevano.
  During the middle ages, Gravellona belongs to the archbishop of Novara, who gaves executive power to Ingone.
  In 1152, Emperor Fredrick Barbarossa confirm feudal power to the "Barbavara" family, from Valsesia. They ruled Gravellona until 1797.
  Gravellona came under the control of Pavia probably in 1164, and in 1250, the list of lands Pavia,it appears like Gravalona. In 1332 the castle of the counts in Gravellona, however, belong to Cavallazzi family, which, together with Barbavara and Tornielli, are the oldest feudal lords of Gravellona. In 1581, the population gravellonese stood about 1000 inhabitants.
  In 1532 Gravellona (who had since returned to the County of Novara) was joined to the new province of the County of Vigevano or Vigevanasco . In 1543, with the Vigevanasco, was absorbed from the domains of Savoy, which since 1707 owned Lomellina. In 1818 the Vigevanasco was reunited with Lomellina, which in 1859 became part of the province of Pavia. Although in the province of Pavia, on the border of the Diocese of Vigevano, Gravellona belongs to the Diocese of Novara.
caption: Heraldic emblem of the Barbavara family
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