Franciacorta between history and legend. Even today it is difficult to find the exact meaning of the term Franciacorta. Many people tried to find it in the tracks of history without success: While sure information is still missing we could agree with 2 possible interpretations: It is demonstrated that the term Franzcurt was found for the first time in a code of the Querinian age, dated 1277 a.C.. Based on this we know that Franciacorta territory is a reality since the Middle-age. A logical explanation to the term is also the one who refers to corti franche (frank courts). We can assume that the main districts in the area (Borgonato, Adro, Timoline, Clusane, Cremignane, Colombaro), were important courts in the Middle-age period, and with the arriving of the monks of the Cluny order, they could enjoy special exemptions (whose Latin translation is curtes francae). Other people refers to the words of the writer and chronicler Elia Capriolo (who lived between 15th and 16th century)

War between Venice and France The French produced many rebellions due to their unpopular brutal methods. The rebellion had its high in Rovato in 1509. Episodes of violence in that period were also produced by the invasion of Lanzichenecchi population and also in the 18th century by the Spanish War for Succession where the Austrian-German and the French-Spanish troups came to war in Northern Italy. After the short period of the Giacobìn Republic the long war against Austrian power started. This conflict had its top in the Second War for Independence that saw in Franciacorta both Giuseppe Garibaldi and king Vittorio Emanuele. Many are the monuments and buildings who reminds us of the long history of Franciacorta, from the forts, still visible in many districts of the area to the magnificent villas and mansions built by the aristocrats of Brescia who loved to take their vacations in this comfortable countryside.

who reported a funny story regarding Charles The Great II, king of the franks. He planted his military camp near the district of Rodengo and on the day of Saint Dionigi’s feast, the king desired to come back to Paris to enjoy it. But this was impossible, so he declared from that day on that land should have taken the name of Little France. Thanks to this idea the feast could be celebrated here. Anyway, from the Middle-age on, Franciacorta has been the theatre for important historical facts. . In the period of commons (when independent districts started to appear as independent autorities), we find tracks of the wars between Guelfi (devoted to the pope) and Ghibellini (devoted to the emperor).

What is called Età delle Signorie (Majesty Age) reveals the alliance of the Ghibellini party who found in Franciacorta their shelter and allied with the Viscount of Milan in the hope of defeating the Guelfi party who had their power in the district of Brescia. Many bloody battles took place between the two rivals, civil wars who didn’t stop even when the Viscount of Milan took control of the territory of Brescia. War continued during the period of Venice domination; a short period of peace followed the Peace Treat of Lodi in 1454, where the Viscount retired his troops from the territory of Brescia and Bergamo to left it under the control of Saint Mark’s Lion, symbol of Venice. Peace that did not last a lot due to the .