The Roggia Cremasca (sometimes also known as Roggia Misana) has very ancient origins and begins its journey at a vast system of springs called Fontanili dei Mosi (also called Fonti Gaverine) which flows in the municipality of Misano di Gera d'Adda (Bergamo).
This ditch was already mentioned in 1374, called Rozia Magna on that occasion which was born omnibus aquis acqueductibus et fontanibus decurentibus per territorium Misani.
It descends in a south-westerly direction crossing the territory of Capralba and then that of Torlino. Here it collects the waters of the Roggia Badessa, a watercourse dug in the 15th century and derived from the Adda (with the initial names of Canale Retorto near Cassano d'Adda and then Roggia Cremasca, homonymous of the first).
After the union of the two irrigation ditches, the reunited watercourse takes the name of Roggia Comuna: this name derives from the fact that in 1430 Filippo Maria Visconti, owner of the Adda and Lord of Milan, rented the waters coming from the river to the Community of Crema; the Community managed the irrigation ditch for several centuries.
It is one of the most significant watercourses from an environmental and hydraulic point of view, one of the largest irrigation channels designed to serve the Crema countryside.