Different examples of works indicate the origins, even if not always correctly, we know that in an act of 1449 a so-called Salio Giovanni, proves that he belongs to a very old family and that the family legacy includes a clause dated 1336, which prohibited sons and daughters from selling the 'borgio priolo' castle which the father had built, to others.

In the battle between the marchioness of monferrato (Guelfi) and Visconti (Ghibellini), the village was conquered by the first, but subsequently thanks to General Visconteo Luchino dal Verme it was handed over to the Visconti family.

It belong to the Montebello stronghold. When Claudio Beccaria (1629) died it was given away and sold to Girolamo Dal Pozzo (1650), the family that owned it for a short period of time and it was subsequently sold to the ducal chamber who sold it again in 1692 to Pio Beccaria.
This stronghold was reduced in 1758 and then handed over to the Dattili counts of Voghera in 1792 and subsequently to the Serra family who kept it until feudalism disappeared, it then passed onto the Gatti heirs.

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