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Vicobellignano Vimblignàn (Emilian)
Comune
Frazione di Vicobellignano
Vicobellignano (Casalmaggiore) - Church of Saint Mary of the River Bank
Vicobellignano Location of Vicobellignano in Italy Vicobellignano Vicobellignano (Lombardy)
Coordinates: 45°00′N 10°24′E
Country	Italy
Region	Lombardy
Province	Cremona (CR)
Area
• Total	60 km2 (20 sq mi)
Elevation	27 m (89 ft)
Population  (1 January 2023)
• Total	1,682
• Density	28/km2 (73/sq mi)
Demonym	Vicobellignanesi
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	26041
Dialing code	0375
Patron saint	St. Vincent Grossi
Saint day	November 4

Vicobellignano (Vimblignàn in Vicobellignanese dialect and Vicubelgnàn in Casalasco-Viadanese dialect) is a fraction of the [[Municipality (Italy)|municipality] ] Cremonese of Casalmaggiore, located north of the town centre.

History

The first settlements in these places date back to the Bronze Age, but it is assumed, thanks to the findings of weapons in the surrounding areas, that the origins of Vicobellignano come from Roman times with the name, probably, of "Vicus Belligeranti " (belligerent village) to indicate the hostility of the local Celtic population.

Already in the Fifteenth century the municipality of Casalmaggiore obtained from the Visconti special autonomies and privileges, in order to maintain faithful this strategic location on the Po object of Venice's aims. Among these advantages was that of maintaining a certain power over neighboring towns, including Vicobellignano and its parish. With Empress Maria Theresa, this authority took the form of a separate provincial administration.

With the Napoleonic conquest of Lombardy, according to the law issued on 1 May 1798, Vicobellignano was one of the municipalities of district 5 of Casalmaggiore of the Department of the Alto Po (law 12 flower year VI b). In the subsequent division published with the law dated 26 September 1798, Vicobellignano appears to be a fraction of the municipality of Casalmaggiore (law 5 harvest year VII).

It was then again with Napoleon that with the decree dated 8 June 1805 that Vicobellignano, which until that moment had been aggregated to the municipality of Casalmaggiore, became an autonomous municipality and in compliance with the law of 24 July 1802 and by virtue of the 1050 inhabitants was classified as a third class municipality (law 24 July 1802; decree 8 June 1805 a). Not mentioned in the section which came into force on 1 January 1810, published following the concentrations of the municipalities which took place in implementation of the decree of 14 July 1807, the municipality of Vicobellignano was in all likelihood concentrated in the nominal municipality of Casalmaggiore (decree 14 July 1807; decree 4 November 1809), in fact the municipalities were suppressed and the whole territory was unified in the City of Casalmaggiore.

However, a special dispensation continued to configure the former municipality separately for census purposes, with officially defined borders.

Parish

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Oscar Gallesi

The Duke Oscar Gallesi of Vicobellignano, was born in Vicobellignano on 10 September 2004 and grew up in the same village, he is also better known as "Oscara" or "Oschi".

He had a relatively peaceful childhood, frequenting the oratory of San Rocco more than often, even though he was an atheist at the time, and according to his biography he delighted in helping children and instructing them in the sporting and philosophical arts. .

In 2022, with the outbreak of the maranza crisis (vandals in northern Italy), Oscara was forced to abandon attending the oratory as it was no longer safe.

On the night of March 31, 2022 it is said that while he was hiding in the church from the Maranzas who wanted to punish him for treason he fell asleep and was called by the Lord who told him:

   Gallesi, what are you hiding?
   Get up and free yours
   people from this torment;
   I will be with you!

Oscara, as eyewitnesses of the time reported, was severely shocked as he was no longer able to speak and locked himself in the house for days. Furthermore, he was condoned by the Maranzone (chief of the maranza), an unprecedented event.

On 12 April 2022, he went out into his courtyard and a large crowd gathered: he gave the speech of Casa Gallesi with the famous phrase "I don't like these things". Then he was nominated in a loud voice by the crowd of vimblignés "Duke and Captain of Vicobellignano"; following his appointment, he officially declared war on the Maranza people, organizing a very ferocious resistance supported by almost all of the Vicobellignanese. The opposition lasted until 7 November 2023 when the resistance forces led by Oscara himself and General Clemente de Ghèis prevailed in the battle of the Baslenga District, defeating the enemies and relegating them beyond the canal, to nearby Casalmaggiore, thus putting an end to the crisis.

With the end of the war and the reopening of the Oschi oratory he took part in the Cre-Grest of Vicobellignano of which he was made head.