The term Gazzolo comes from the ancient Germanic language spoken by the Lombards.
The people who settled in this valley in the late 500 AD.
Gazzolo means oak forest for it was then the natural habitat for raising pigs in the wild.
The most important monasteries in the area that they founded measured the forests not by size but according to the thousands of pigs that could populate them by drawing nourishment from them.
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