HISTORY OF CREMONA
Cremona, whose population has uncertain origins, probably celtic or Etruscan ones, was founded in the 218 a.c. as a colony from part of the Roman as a result of the war against Galliums. It became very soon a bench mark in the Po plain against all the populations that lived on the other of Po' and the coming from Barbarians from the Alps. Remarkably fortified with it walls, towers and a ditch; Cremona resisted to onslaught of Galliums and to the army of Hannibal, earning itself the town hall title it. During the augustean age became one of the beautifulest and rich cities of Italy and an important crossroads trades them, in fact from Cremona the way Postumia passed, that it connected Aquileia to Genoa, beyond to the guiding ones that they reached Bergamo and Brescia making to become the city a crucial centre of communications by earth and river, favorite also from the navigability of the Po '. Its opulence lasted until the 69 d.c., year in which became place of continuous civil conflicts that carried it to a slow forfeiture, as long as it was not plundered from the troops of Vespasiano that later on made it to reconstruct same he. In the 451 the Bishop of Cremona participated to synod of Milan giving the beginning to the spread of the Christianity near the city. After the fall of the roman empire of the West and the reduction in Italy of the Barbarians, Cremona in the 533 d.c. passed remarkably under the expanded Bizantino empire and with the realization of an intrenched field. Half century later, later on to the longest one I besiege lasted 34 years very, came conquered from the king longobardo Agilulfo, than uniforms the territory of Cremona between Bergamo and Brescia. In the VIII sec with Liutprando the city bought back prestige and power. In this period the city appears uniform in two parts : one "infra muras" on which it governed the bishop and the other, "extra muras", developed on the intrenched field bizantino. Cremona remained one episcopal county until 1093 when, after long fights between the bishops and the people, it became common. The new town hall since endured joined to faithful the Ghibelline faction remaining to the Empire from Federico Barbarossa to Federico II of Svevia. Enemy fierce of Milan, Cremona achieved several victories against the neighbour avails again until when, after to be last from common to lordship and after the defeat of the Ghibellines to Benevento, it was weakened remarkably; under the Cavalcabò it endured the vendetta of the Guelfi and was plundered from the soldiers of Arrigo WAYS. In the XIV and XV sec the city passed from the numerous Visconti to the Cavalcabò times and in l the 441 as dowry of White woman Visconti Maria to Francisco Strains. In the 1499 Cremona became territory of the republic of Venice that occupied it until 1509. From the 1525 city it was taken from the Spanish who occupied it until 1702, year in which the Austrians they conquered it. Later on part of the Italian reign from 1818 passed to the French and became. Returned to Austria it was rebelled returning to make part of Italy definitively. Currently Cremona is administrative centre of province. Today it is a situated city calm on the left river of the Po '. Famous for its masters of lute, it is given over mainly to agriculture.
