The first news about the origins of the Bardigiano horse are 1864, year in which, from a certain historical source, mention is made of a "variety of horses", sufficiently homogeneous, which extended from the Apennines of Emilia, the Western until the Lunigiana. The presence of the horse in the Val Ceno is still interesting, as an excerpt from the description of Bardi in the early ‘600 at the time of Federico II Landi. In this description, is, in fact, quoted from a horse of the local breed very estimated. Maria Landi, sister of Frederick the bride in the 1595 Ercole Grimaldi, and his son Onorato will become the first prince of Monaco. It seems plausible that the splendid horse, ridden by thirteen-year-old prince Ercole II Grimaldi, great-grandson of Federico Landi, depicted in a painting of the mid-SEVENTEENTH century (Munich, The palace of the Prince) for its characteristics, could represent an ancestor of the breed Bardigiana. According to other sources, the origins could involve Belgian horses and in particular for some the origin would be linked to the famous Cremonese variety horses. Are documented over the years, further action of stallions haflinger horses, Franches Montaigne, Murgese and Croats that have in varying degrees influenced the breed.