HISTORY OF CILIVERGHE (Wikipedia – translated)
The first documentary evidence of Ciliverghe dates back to the year 1187.
Ciliverghe was the countryside area of Virle with which it constituted a single municipality and a single parish.
The town developed around a hill called “Monte Coeli Aperti” (hence the toponym Ciliverghe) which rose above the surrounding land, uncultivated and swampy. In this place the ancient nucleus of the country was formed, which has been known since the fourteenth century, through the many geographical maps of the time.
Between the 15th and 16th centuries, the reclamation works began by the inhabitants of the area. The creation of the Mazzanesca canal, which through its five branches channeled the waters that came from the Naviglio , allowed the population to gain useful land for agriculture.
Thus began the first inhabited centers, ordered in three parallel districts, with the respective subdivisions of agricultural land.
In 1722, the Mazzucchelli family settled in an old farmhouse in the “Second district”, who, thanks to its most famous exponent, Count Giammaria Mazzucchelli , transformed it into a sumptuous Palladian villa. Mazzucchelli, a prominent scholar in eighteenth-century Italy, will have a fundamental role in the procedures for the religious and political independence of the country.
Due to the progressive increase of the population, in 1755 Ciliverghe obtained the separation from Virle becoming an autonomous municipality.
During the Venetian era , the municipality belonged to the square of Rezzato .
Despite having obtained administrative autonomy, Ciliverghe remained under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the parish of Virle and the inhabitants had to travel a short distance each time for each celebration.
In the year 1680, Bishop Bartolomeo Gradenigo granted clearance for the construction of the church of San Filippo Neri , then erected as a parish church in 1757 by decree of Bishop Giovanni Molin .
Following the establishment of the Brescia Republic (1797), the municipality of Ciliverghe was inserted in the Canton of Eastern Garza , to then enter the Department of Mella at the confluence of the same in the Cisalpine Republic and then in the Italian Kingdom .
During the Austrian dominion , the municipality belonged to District I of the province of Brescia of the Lombard-Veneto kingdom . Following the peace of Zurich , it was annexed to the Kingdom of Sardinia , later the Kingdom of Italy , and included in the IV mandate of Rezzato of the new province of Brescia . It remained autonomous until the Royal Decree of 11 March 1928, n. 549, did not establish the union of the municipality of Ciliverghe with the municipality of Mazzano .