Loris Dadda
BRIANZA
HILLS Perìmeter de cà Home perimeter
UN VIÀS IN MÈZ AI TÈRR CHE CIAMI CÀ MIA! A journey to the places I call home.
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Fog
CONTENTS
Introduction
Briansa
Briansa laghè
In this section of pages I will explain and illustrate a handful of information regarding Brianza and the perimeter of land within which I call home. It will also be explained why I chose this theme and that led me to tell the territories where I was born and raised.
In this chapter I will try to give a taste of mainly rural Brianza, located mostly in the Province of Lecco and Monza and Brianza. From natural landscapes such as hills, rivers and mountains to anthropic ones, presenting some monuments and architectural features that have marked these lands.
This chapter is dedicated to the Brianza lake territories. it has been divided following the two main provincial capitals, Como and Lecco. Some of the major attractions of these two towns and the related villages and landscapes around the lake will be told and represented.
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Folklore
Mangià & bèf
Munscia & Milàn
The following chapter talks about the folklore and cultural traditions that have characterized the lands of Brianza for centuries, some of them still today. The traditions of the author’s land of origin, rural Brianza, will be treated mainly. Nature, agricultural life, strong working nature of the people etc.
The chapter “eating and drinking” will give an idea of Brianzola’s cuisine, trying to represent at least one typical dish from each of the four provinces of this geographical area. First courses, meats and salami, fish and cheeses are the order of the day in the typical Brianzola cuisine.
Monza and Milan, urban centers with a strong city character, have always been considered enemies by rural Brianza. But they are still part of the macro-area of the Brianzola land that I consider home land, which is why some hints will be made to notivmonuments of these places.
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Introduction Quick intro
Còmm Como
Lècch Lecco
Munscia Monza Milàn Milan
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Introduction “It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realized what’s changed is you.”-F. Scott Fitzgerald. 2020.. what a crazy year has been! The year of Covid-19 in which we were all forced to remain stuck in our homes, paradoxically was the year in which I spent the most time away from home, first in Canada and then in Bolzano. And the further I got away, the more my home began to miss. You begin to realize how lucky I was to live in these lands. Prosperous territories, rich in natural elements such as lakes, rivers and mountains. That’s why I decided to start exploring and living every little detail, scent and physical contact with my land, or rather, the perimeter of land that I call “Home”.
In the map it is possible to have a geographical view, to understand where the land of Brianza is located. Brianza is a geographical, historical and cultural area of Italy, at the foot of the Alps, in the North-West of Lombardy, between Milan and Lake Como. It extends from the Canzo area, North of Monza (approximately 14 km from Milan), to the Seveso River on the West and to the Adda River on the East. The southern and western parts are mostly flat, while the northern and eastern parts are mountainous. Brianza encompasses a part of the administrative area of the Province of Monza and Brianza, a part of the administrative area of the Province of Lecco, a part of the administrative area of the Province of Como and some municipalities of the administrative area of the province of Milan bordering the Province of Monza and Brianza. The main language spoken in this area is Italian and to a lesser extent a dialect of the Lombard language. Brianza is densely populated, with approximately 1.372 inhabitants/ km2, yet remains remarkable fertile for farming. Due to its hilly nature, it is a favorite summer resort for the people of Milan. Its economy includes the production of furniture and tools. The agro-industrial technology and high-tech economies have expanded in recent years.
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Briansa Landscapes
CENT COO,CENT CRAPP, CENT CUU, DUSENT CIAPP! A hundred heads, a hundred mentalities, a hundred asses, two hundred buttocks.
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n this chapter we will discover some of the places and landscapes, both from an anthropic and natural point of view, that the inhabitants of Brianza populate. The name of the region probably derives from the Celtic word brig which means “hill”. People are defined Brianzoli, Brianzöö in dialect or, Briccone Brisàcch in dialect; which indicate an unscrupulous person but also a sympathetically astute person, a shrewd person, closed, but also playful. Within the Brianza area, two sub-areas can be identified from the point of view of geological aspects: one flat to the south and west and another hilly to the north and east. The sub-area, south of the hilly sub-area, is the northern offshoot of the Po Valley, occupies the sector more properly called the lower Brianza, the greater part of the Brianza Como and part of the Meratese area. This flat portion is attributable to the Upper plain area, characterized by a permeable soil composed of sands and gravels, as opposed to the clayey and impermeable soil of the Lower plain. In the sub-area of the Upper Plain, given the inability of the soil to retain water, it penetrates for several tens of meters until it meets an impermeable layer. On the impermeable rocks the water flows up to the point where it has the possibility of re-emerging from the water table, giving rise to resurgences, that is to say in the lower plain
even further south. The flat portion of Brianza, from south to north, rises very gradually, with an altitude difference that goes from approximately 160 meters at the beginning of the lower Brianza to 370 in Cantù, for an average of +10.5 meters above sea level. per kilometer. Given the very northern position of the Brianza plain, on clear days here it is intensely perceived that the Alps form an “arc” around the Po Valley. In fact, in addition to the Grigne Group, the Resegone and the Bergamasque Prealps, the landscape is dominated by the imposing mass of Monte Rosa, which appears exactly to the west, and not to the northwest as one would expect. The hilly portion of Brianza extends mostly in the Province of Lecco and in the south-eastern sector of that of Como.
Panoramic view from the Regional Park of Montevecchia-Muntavègia and the Curone Valley.
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Pomelasca red church, Inverigo. Built in 1952 in neo-Romanesque style by Ambrogio Anoni on the Pomelasca estate, located at the convergence of the Inverigo, Lurago d’Erba and Lambrugo territories. The estate also includes the family chapel of the Sormani family, located on the ground floor of the homonymous villa.
Sanctuary of Montevecchia at night. Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel, it stands on the top of the Montevecchia hill. From the terrace you can enjoy a splendid view over a large part of the Po Valley, the Alps and the Apennines up to almost Bologna.
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In these pages we can see some of the most symbolic buildings and architectural forms of Brianza, especially in the most rural areas and immersed in the environment in contact with Nature. The large rustic farmhouses(Corte Lombarda) built starting from the distant 1700s. We can deduce from the first image (Montevecchia farmhouse), that it was a past of fatigue and hardship, of a peasant life very different from that of the “fat� Po Valley, of a heavy poverty from which every effort was made to free itself, launching headlong into an artisanal, then industrial and finally demographic and urban development development, which has pushed the meritorious individual initiative from Brianza to become closure and competition, and which together with the misery of the past has devoured every green space, transforming the landscape to its present uniform, or shapeless, and growing overbuilding. During this period the main activities that allowed the survival of the people, even during the long winters, were agriculture and cattle breeding.
These houses are built of mortar and stone (more rarely brick) with a tiled roof. attic, windows, shutters and front door are made of wood. One of the most famous features of the courtyards of the Po Valley is the railing. The railings are wooden or metal protections, which delimit the balconies inside the courtyard in front of the rooms on the upper floors. The Lombard courts, which rarely have exposed bricks, are almost always provided with external plaster which is spread evenly on the walls. Originally the colors used for painting were mostly gray, white and yellow. Other shades of color are rare. Many buildings have a rational location of the premises. In one part of the courtyard there are the houses arranged in rows where, on the upper floor, the bedrooms are located, and, in the lower one, the room used as a living room. The rooms on the upper floor can be reached by climbing an external staircase that leads to the balconies with railings.
15 Arched entrance, courtyard. Typical Lombard arch architectural construction. The entrance leads into the courtyard where the threshing floor was usually located, which was once used, among other things, to beat and thresh wheat.
Historic court, Montevecchia. A characterizing element of the Lombard courts is the entrance door, which can sometimes have decorations and pilasters. The door can be positioned along the boundary wall, on the border between two buildings or in the middle of a wing of the courtyard.
Old rural house. Here you can see some typical details of old houses of this land. One above all is the use of wooden plates for the door with a single-throw lock and horseshoe-shaped iron handles.
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Briansa Landscapes
GH’É GIÓ UNA SCIGÅ D’INFÈRNU! There is a fog of hell down there! / My goodness, what a fog!
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n the image above it is possible to see one of the most truthful landscapes of the Brianza and obviously Lombard landscape. A blanket of fog that envelops everything it encounters, especially the fields and woods. Moreover, typical of the winter months like January, it is possible to observe this combination of fog and fumes from industrial factories, which manifest an intense gray color that gives a strong sense of smog. A particular phenomenon concerns the “radiation mists”, which are formed during the long clear and calm nights of autumn and winter and reach particular intensity in large cities, where smog, with the concentration of fine dust, is very high, thus acting as condensation nuclei that facilitate the development of dense thin layers, with the base resting on the ground. This type of fog, during autumn and winter, is very frequent on the Catino Padano, and in the valleys of central Italy. The Brianza climate varies from area to area: the plain of the lower Brianza, and especially the urban belts, Desio-Lissone-Seregno and Seveso-Meda, are affected by a heat hood effect similar to that of the Lombard capital, due to polluting emissions and the very high population density. In the hills or in less densely populated areas, up to five degrees lower can be recorded at the same time. Generally speaking, the climate of the region can be
classified as a temperate continental climate. Winters are quite rainy and harsh (in the plains night-time freezes are recurrent and the thermometer can drop to -10 ° C / -12 ° C), humid, short and mild mid-seasons and sultry and stormy summers (with temperatures maximums that can vary from +30 ° C on the hill to +35 ° C / +37 ° C on the plain, and exceptional peaks of +38 ° C / +40 ° C in the city). The mitigating effect of the lakes is not felt, given their small size.
Typical industrial area in the Brianza hills.
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FiĂźm
River
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Ghiba
Icy fog
GiĂ scc - Brina
Ice - Frost
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CĂ mp SbĂ ra
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Lake of Annone Brianza
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The borders of Brianza have seen a temporal evolution. Initially the term referred to a territory between Lambro and Adda, from Vedano al Lambro in the south to the Canzo-Asso border in the north. This meaning in the fifteenth century also had its own territorial political structure (the Vicariatus Montis Briantiae and the Universitas Montis Briantiae), holder of particular fiscal concessions from the State of Milan. According to Ignazio Cantù’s definition, which is based on different historical and geographical parameters, the borders of the Brianza regional area are as follows: To the north, the Vallategna waterfall, where the Foce stream flows into the Lambro river, since it is the sign of the beginning of a valley (the Lambro and Foce Valbrona valleys - are the two branches of Vallassina) and therefore of the end of a hilly region like Brianza. The municipality of Canzo, despite having mainly mountains on its territory, is still part of Brianza, since the town is at a hilly altitude and Mount Scioscia, which separates it from the Piano d’Erba, is a small relief. To
the south, the northern walls of Monza. This border is quite marked, both from the historical-cultural and from the geographical point of view: it corresponds in fact with the transition from the Brianza territories to Vedano al Lambro, at the (Corte di Monza). To the west, the Seveso river near Cantù and Carimate, where this natural border makes its first bend towards the east, that is towards the center of the Universitas Briantiae (the first area to be called “Brianza”, revolving around the parish church of Missaglia). In this area, the border of Brianza coincides with that of the diocese of Milan. To the east, Lake Garlate, Lake Olginate and above all the Adda, “up to the territories near Cornate”, are the natural border with the lands of Bergamo, historically distinct from western Lombardy, of which Brianza is part, for language and historical vicissitudes.
25 Fraction of Brianzola, Castello Brianza. Colorful terraced houses and cypresses. In the hamlet of Castello di Brianza, Province of Lecco. Where is the castle of Queen Teodolinda of Monza located. From this hill it is possible to enjoy a breathtaking view of Brianza and the mountains, such as Monte Rosa.
Mausoleo Visconti di Modrone, Cassago brianza. The Visconti di Modrone mausoleum, designed around 1884 by the Piedmontese architect Giovanni Ceruti and completed in 1890, is located in the territory of Cassago Brianza, in Brianza. The monument contains the family tombs of the Visconti di Modrone.
Old street of Oggiono. Since 2017, the municipality has been awarded the title of city with a Decree of the President of the Republic.
Palazzo Prinetti, Merate. The palace, also known as Castello di Merate, was initially built by Archbishop Ariberto d’Intimiano as a moated castle, which was however destroyed in 1275 during the civil wars that involved the Visconti and Della Torre families. The castle was inherited from the Monastery of San Dionigi in Milan.
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Briansa Mountains
QUAND AL CORNISCIOEU AL GH’HA ‘L CAPPELL, Ò ‘L FA BRUTT Ò ‘L FA BELL! When the top of the mountain is covered with clouds, it is either bad weather or nice.
Very rough weather forecast of yesteryear.
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he reliefs of modest altitude visible from every corner of the upper Brianza are the first mountains that are part of the Prealpine belt and that mark the border between the high plain and the sub-alpine hilly area. Along this border an extensive hilly area develops, geologically characterized by Wurmian morainic layers. Geographically it is possible to identify two mountain massifs, which are also the southernmost ones of the Lariano Triangle (i.e. the whole area between the two southern branches of the Lario): the first, located further west (towards Como), includes the main peaks Boletto, Bolettone, Palanzone and Colma di Sormano; the second, on the other hand, is located further east (towards Lecco) and includes as peaks: Cornizzolo, Monte Rai, the Corni di Canzo group and Monte Moregallo. These two massifs are separated by Val Brona and Vallassina. Along these mountain areas there are rocks dating back to the Mesozoic age of undoubted marine origin (flint limestone dating back to the Lower Jurassic), in particular along the slopes of Mount Bolettone and Mount Croce. As already mentioned, some of these reliefs are of very modest altitude: the highest peak in the district is Monte S.
Primo (1750 m) which, however, is not really part of the upper Brianza but of the Larian Triangle.In the high Brianza area, on the other hand, Monte Palanzone (1436 m) and Bollettone (1317 m), as well as Monte Rai (1259 m) and Monte Prasanto (1244 m), Cornizzolo (1240 m) and Boletto ( 1236 m). Other minor reliefs - but certainly worthy of mention - are Monte Puscio (also known as Croce di Maiano, 1130 m), the Barzaghino (1079 m), the Corno Birone (1116 m, the forerunner of the aforementioned Monte Rai) and Mount Panigas (902 m) Other reliefs not properly located in Brianza but in the area are the Grigne (the Grignone with its 2410 m and the Grignetta with 2184 m of altitude), the Moregallo (1276 m) and the Corni di Canzo (1368 m) ; noteworthy is also the famous Resegone, a set of eleven peaks whose highest reaches 1875 m on whose slopes the city of Lecco rises; not surprisingly, the latter is also mentioned by Manzoni in his famous novel “I Promessi Sposi�:
Grigna settentrionale 1 686 m.
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The basin in which Lecco lies is circumscribed, to the north, east and south-east, by a mountain range of considerable height, limestone and dolomitic, dominated by the Resegone and the Grigne group while to the west it is bordered by the hilly reliefs of northern Brianza -east that culminate in Mount Barro. Lecco is more properly defined as follows: to the north rises the massif of Monte Coltignone, mainly of limestone and Esino dolomite, directly overlooking the lower peaks, such as Monte San Martino, Monte Melma and Monte Albano. To the east, the Resegone group, which, with its 1875 meters above sea level, dominates the city, characterizing the Lombard landscape since Milan. It is so called because of its many rocky teeth which, seen from the town, make it look like a gigantic saw; Monte Serada, which dominates imposingly with its offshoots, which are the Piani d’Erna and Pian Serada. To the south-east, beyond Maggianico, the greatest elevation is represented by the Magnodeno. To the west rise the extreme hills of north-eastern Brianza.
Winter sunset from the top of Monte Barro, with a view over the Briantei lakes, the Brianza hills to the skyline of Monza and Milan. It has an elevation of 922 metres.
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Winter sunset on the peaks of Mount Resegone. Also known as Monte Serrada, it is a mountain of the Orobie Prealps 1875 m high above sea level, located on the border between the province of Bergamo and Lecco.
Punta Cermenati 1875 m s.l.m. Known until 1925 as Punta della Croce, it was dedicated to Mario Cermenati by members of the Lecco excursionist society.
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Briansa Laghè Lake Como
QUEL RAMO DEL LAGO DI COMO.. Famous verse taken from the novel of “I promessi sposi” by Alessandro Manzoni, 1840. Literally translated as: “That branch of Lake Como”.
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rianza is located in the heart of the Italian Lakes Region. Indeed, the numerous bodies of water and small lakes, with which it is dotted, are a constituent and irreplaceable element of its landscape, so close to Lario, one of the great lakes. The Briantean region is only marginally affected by Lake Como, which, if anything, constitutes its border with the Comasco and Lecco regions. However, most of the bodies of water entirely included in the Brianza area belong to the Larian lake system. The most important is certainly Lake Annone, the twenty-first Italian lake by extension (5.71 km²) which reaches a maximum depth of just 11 meters. Como is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy. It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como.Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps has made Como a tourist destination, and the city contains numerous works of art, churches, gardens, museums, theatres, parks, and palaces: the Duomo, seat of the Diocese of Como; the Basilica of Sant’Abbondio; the Villa Olmo; the public gardens with the Tempio Voltiano; the Teatro Sociale; the Broletto or the city’s medieval town hall; and the 20th-century Casa del Fascio.With 215,320 overnight guests in 2013, Como was the fourth-most visited city in Lombardy after Milan, Bergamo, and Brescia. In 2018, Como surpassed Bergamo becoming the third most visited city in Lombardy with 1.4 million arrivals.Como was the birthplace of many historical figures, including the poet Caecilius mentioned by Catullus in the first century BCE, writers Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger, Pope Innocent XI, scientist Alessandro Volta,
and Cosima Liszt, second wife of Richard Wagner and long-term director of the Bayreuth Festival, and Antonio Sant’Elia, (1888–1916) Futurist architect and pioneer of the modern movement. Lake Como, also called Lario, is a natural pre-Alpine Italian lake of fluvioglacial origin falling within the territories belonging to the provinces of Como and Lecco. Located about 50 km north of Milan, it is the deepest lake in Italy, the one with the greatest perimeter extension and the third in terms of surface and volume.A popular refuge for the rich and aristocrats since Roman times, it still remains one of the tourist destinations. privileged, so much so that in 2014 it was listed as the most beautiful lake in the world by the online newspaper The Huffington Post, for its microclimate and for its environment dotted with prestigious villas and villages. In addition to being made famous by Alessandro Manzoni who set the novel The Betrothed on the Lecco shore, it includes a typical rowing boat that over time has become the symbol of the lake itself: the batell, known more informally as “lucia” in memory of escape from Lecco by Lucia Mondella.
Panoramic view from the Regional Park of Montevecchia-Muntavègia and the Curone Valley.
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Villa Monastero, Varenna LC. Villa Monastero is a villa located in Varenna in the Province of Lecco and located on the shores of Lake Como. The villa houses a botanical garden, a house museum and a convention center. The school has hosted speeches by over thirty-four Nobel Prize.
The Life Electric, Lake Como. The Life Electric is a sculpture designed by Daniel Libeskind, created in 2015 and located in Como, on the breakwater. About 13.75 meters high, The Life Electric is shaped like two opposing sinusoids. It weighs 29 tons and was made of steel and coated with stainless steel. Dedicated to the scientist Alessandro Volta.
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Briansa Laghè Lake Como
The lake always has a certain charm, but the atmosphere that reigns in Varenna(1) is truly special. The village, one of the most beautiful in the region, is a very romantic and suggestive place, overlooking the waters of the Lario as it is. In Lombardy, it is perhaps the most suitable destination if you want to treat yourself to an alternative weekend. Varenna, just over 700 inhabitants, is a village located in the province of Lecco, about 20 minutes from the city. Reaching it is very simple: among the various connecting roads, one of the most picturesque is undoubtedly the one that crosses the lake: on the opposite shore stands Bellagio(2), one of the most beautiful villages of all time, to which Varenna however gives a lot of trouble. And even if you decide not to take the boat to get to this fantastic village, we still recommend a nice tour on the waters of Lake Como, to admire the panorama from a different point of view.
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There is a village, located on the eastern shore of Lake Como, known for its famous and incredible ravine, a natural and deep gorge carved into the rock that characterizes the entire surrounding area. We are in Nesso.
Como promenade, Como is located on the southern end of the western branch of Lake Como, in a small basin surrounded by wooded morainic hills.
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Briansa Laghè Lake Lecco
GHÈ IN GÌR GENT DE LÈCCH!? Are there people from Lecco?
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ecco is a city of 48,131 inhabitants in Lombardy, northern Italy, 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Milan.It lies at the end of the south-eastern branch of Lake Como (the branch is named Lake of Lecco / Lago di Lecco). The Bergamo Alps rise to the north and east, cut through by the Valsassina of which Lecco marks the southern end. The lake narrows to form the river Adda, so bridges were built to improve road communications with Como and Milan. There are four bridges crossing the river Adda in Lecco: the Azzone Visconti Bridge (1336–1338), the Kennedy Bridge (1956) and the Alessandro Manzoni Bridge (1985) and a railroad bridge. Lecco was also Alpine Town of the Year 2013. Elevated to province by decree of the President of the Republic of 6th March 1992, Lecco obtained the title of city on 22nd June 1848. Famous for being the place where the writer Alessandro Manzoni set “The Betrothed”, the city is located in one of the vertexes of the Larian Triangle. It overlooks the eastern branch of Lake Como and is included in the Orobic Prealps, between the Grigne mountain chain and the Resegone. As strategic crossroads for Valtellina, Lecco assumed increasing importance during the Middle Ages when it was annexed to
the Duchy of Milan following the Peace of Constance. During the second half of the 19th century, under the Austrian dominion, the city went through a particularly flourishing period during which palaces and arcades in neoclassical style were constructed. After the Unity of Italy, Lecco established itself as one of the most important industrial centers of the nation thanks to the development of the steel industries, already active in the 12th century. For this reason, Lecco is also called “the Iron city”.
Mario Cermenati square, Lecco.
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Briansa Laghè Lake Lecco
Passeggiada a lagh de Lècch
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Lakefront of Lecco
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Briansa Laghè Lake Lecco
Lecco promenade, Malgrate view. Nice walk on a beautiful lakefront with fountains, green spaces, benches retracing the areas where Manzoni lived and from which he took inspiration in his writings. In the distance you can admire Lecco and the mountains that surround it: the Resegone, Mount Barro.
Alley, bell tower of San Nicolò. The bell tower of San Nicolò is one of the symbols of the city of Lecco in Lombardy as well as being among the main monuments of the capital. It was inaugurated on Christmas Eve 1904 and is called “Matitone” by the people of Lecco. 96 meters high, it is among the ten highest bell towers in Italy.
Briansa Laghè Lake Lecco
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Comet over Varenna. Wonderful photographic shot by RP on the night panorama in the middle of summer of the Borgo di Varenna, in the Province of Lecco.
Fishermen on the “batell”/”Lucia”. It’s a historic rowing and / or small sailing boat used by the fishermen of Lake Como for the transport of fish, but also of passengers. It is the most famous of the Larian boats, so much so that it has become the very symbol of the lake.
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Briansa Laghè Lake Lecco
The origin of the toponym Lecco is not certain: it probably has a Celtic origin (Lech or Loch) words that mean lake. Shortly before the year 1000 B.C., some populations of Gauls and Celts migrated to the territory of Lecco for trades. Leucos was the name given by the Gauls who inhabited these areas until Romans transformed the denomination into Leucum under Julius Caesar’s domination around 200 B.C.; so the hypothesis put forward by historians who have identified in Lecco the Roman city founded in 95 b.C. by Licinius Crassus in the Larian area with the name of Leucera was excluded. Other theories, perhaps legendary, trace etymology back to the Greek therm leukos (white), probably because of the beautiful white limestone rocks that can be found in Lecco; from the Latin lucus (forest) and/or lacus (lake). Other theories report a derivation from the Old Indian lokas (country) or Lithuanian laukas (open field). However, the existence of the city was first documented in 845 named Leuco.
Pescarenico (Pescarenech in Lecchese dialect), is a district of Lecco, located on the left bank of the Adda, in the stretch between the end of the Lecco branch of Lake Como and the small lake of Garlate.
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The small bay of Varenna is a small treasure trove of colorful houses and restaurants, a pleasant walkway suspended over the lake.
Varenna, located on the east shore of Lake Como, right in front of the famous Bellagio, with which it shares the fame, for being one of the icon villages of Lake Como.
Baluardo de Varena
Baluardo of Varenna
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Folklore Farm animals
PER SCAMPÀ ON PEZZ GHE VOEUR BON ZÒCCOR, BON BRÒCCOL, BON CAPELL E PÒCCH CERVELL! To live for a long time, you need good shoes, good food, good clothes and little brain.
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fter the prehistoric and protohistoric pre-Celtic period, the period of the Celts, the Romanization, and, subsequently, the numerous barbarian invasions, until the prevalence of the Lombards and then the Franks, with the relative mergers of populations and cultures, the heritage of traditions della Brianza was formed in the ancient peasant and artisan traditions of the ‘Pievi period’, after the first millennium. The Pievi also saw a succession of dominations in part from Lombardy and mainly by foreigners, which as previously involved mergers of populations and cultures, well hinged and amalgamated by the Pievi. At the end of the Pievi period, Brianza saw the greatest changes in the second millennium after the birth of the Italian Republic and then with the advent of the third millennium. The following is precisely this continuum of contexts. The traditions of Brianza therefore derive from an ancient culture intimately linked to its territory and its history. In the nineteenth century Brianza was characterized by an economy based on craftsmanship and above all on a flourishing agriculture that was extremely profitable for the large and few families of landowners. In addition to the development of agriculture,
which showed advanced systems and intensive cultivation techniques, the industrialization process in Brianza also began in the nineteenth century. After the second half of the second millennium, (more precisely in the second half of the twentieth century), it became one of the most industrialized areas of Italy, although in the northern part of this region agriculture and livestock are still activities. rather widespread. Brianza has some typical animal breeds: Tacchino Brianzolo, a medium-sized turkey breed widespread in almost all of the Brianza area, much bred in the early decades of the twentieth century, ending in the sixties on the verge of extinction and revived at the beginning of the 2000 . It is a light and rustic animal that produces excellent quality meat. Pollo Brianzolo (Mericanel de Briansa): poultry breed widespread mainly in the hilly area, almost completely extinct in the last century and revived in recent decades. The Pollo Brianzolo is a very rustic animal of small size, with a marked aptitude for hatching and producer of excellent meat.
Brianzola sheep.
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Brianzola sheep. Sheep breed mainly diffused in the foothills and hills. The Brianzola is a very rustic sheep of medium-large size and is part of the group of giant alpine sheep. Physically quite similar to the Bergamasca, it is mainly used as a meat animal.
The donkey at the Curone Park Trekking with donkeys in the middle of the nature of the Curone di Montevecchia Park, in the Province of Lecco.
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Folklore Agriculture
LA TERA LA VA MINGA A L’OSTERIA! The wives said it to those husbands who, instead of going to work in the fields, preferred to go to the tavern, perhaps to get drunk.
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n all this extension of the country, nothing appears sterile or abandoned; and from presumptive calculations it can be ensured that half of the territory is occupied by fields, vineyards, meadows and pastures; and the other half from woods and forests. This is how the Brianza area looked at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The Brianza farmers were specialized in the cultivation of corn, the main energy source in their diet, in mulberry silkworms (breeding of the silkworm, which feeds on the leaves of the mulberry), and in viticulture. A leading role was also occupied by fruit growing, which in this area boasted excellent results, especially from a qualitative point of view. Furthermore, fruit, being less subject to the contractual constraints with which the peasants were linked to the owners of the land, could be collected and sold in the markets, thus allowing the peasant to have greater economic income. Viticulture in Brianza has a long history and the first written documents attesting its diffusion date back to the 1st century BC, when the Greek geographer Strabo in chapter IV of his Geography wrote that he observed the Cisalpine Gauls “drinking wine with exceptional pleasure from barrels as big as houses “. Other sources report that
during the Lombard domination attempts were made to spread the consumption and production of beer, but this attempt was soon abandoned as the consumption of wine was widespread and rooted in the traditions of the local people. In even more recent times many writers have sung the praises of Brianza wine: first of all is the poet Carlo Porta who in the “Brindes de Meneghin a l’ostaria per l’entrada in Milan de Francesch Primm” of 1815 reports a long list of wines of this territory, saying that if one of these wines had been tasted, no others would have been drunk. In the same period, the Frenchman Stendhal, in his work “Voyage dans la Brianza” (1818), also praises the praises of this region and appreciates its food and wine tradition.
Wheat fields and crops in Brianza.
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Agriculture In addition to viticulture, gelsibachiculture plays a leading role in Brianza, which supplied the raw material to the Lombard spinning mills and produced semi-finished silk products that were sold throughout Europe. The cultivation of rows of mulberry trees (moron), whose leaves were the main food for silkworms, was very developed since the times of the Visconti, even if it is with the Habsburg domination and the domination of Maria Theresa of Austria that it reaches its apex. At the end of the eighteenth century, this cultivation experienced a serious period of crisis due to the “limestone� it took decades to flourish again at the beginning of the nineteenth century. At the end of the century, production was considerable: data from the Alto Milanese area, referring to 92 properties, speak of a quantity of seed / silkworms raised of 11,442 ounces on 13,573 hectares of gelatinous plowing area. Even today, in some places, it is possible to admire long rows of mulberry trees that line the perimeters of the fields and the paths leading to the farmhouses.
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FORMENTON A GATTON, LOEUV A MONTON! If the corn plant breaks down and falls on all fours, the ripe cobs weigh a lot, so the harvest will be rich.
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CHI GH’HA FEN, GH’HA TUTTI I BEN! Whoever owns the hay fields, can have every good by selling the hay to those who have the animals in the stable.
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INCOEU L’È FOEUJA, DOMAN HINN FOEUJ. Today they are leaves, tomorrow they are sheets.
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hat Brianza of the early nineteenth century had nothing to do with that of today. It was a land made up of open countryside, dusty roads crossed by battered carts and a few rural villages. Furthermore, unlike the south of Milan, where the numerous underground springs allowed the cultivation of fields and the raising of cattle, Brianza was a hard and dry land. Cereals, mulberries and silkworms were the only possible crops. Little, too little to allow Brianza peasants to survive. You needed an idea to get yourself out of that ugly misery. A second job was needed. The first attempt was made with weaving, but Monza and above all Como, already large established urban centers in that sector, greatly limited the growth margins. What to do then? The right idea came from Colonel Privat, who had generously rewarded the farmer for the excellent work he did. In short, the solution was wood. Especially since for some time the Milanese nobles, but also the foreign ones, had begun to build (or renovate) their villas of delight in Brianza. Villa Reale first of all, but then also Villa Gallarati Scotti in Vimercate, Villa Tittoni Travesi in Desio, Villa Pusterla in Limbiate or Villa Taverna in Triuggio. It was not just an idea, but a real opportunity
to be seized on the fly, even if the beginnings were obviously not easy. The skill of Brianza in producing furniture began to become a topic of discussion in all the Milanese salons and, as we know, in certain situations a good word of mouth is worth more than a thousand commercials. The fact is that within a few months the cellars, basements and warehouses of the houses in half Brianza were used in whole or in part as workshops and within a few years the Brianza peasants began to feel so sure of their stuff when they had a plane. in hand that they decided to exhibit their products in Milan. From that moment on, the rise was unstoppable. In a short time the first furniture makers’ workshops were born, the Unification of Italy favored the construction of new roads and railways and, in order not to lose the wealth of knowledge they were acquiring, the new Brianza furniture makers founded the first schools of design and cabinet making . In particular, in 1878 the evening school of drawing and cabinet-making was founded in Lissone.
Typical external Brianzola woodshed.
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Walk immersed in the nature of the Brianza woods. Path to San Genesio in Colle Brianza, in the Province of Lecco. An hour’s drive from Milan.
Typical Brianzolo fireplace in winter. Wood prepared in the pre-winter period with tree pruning.
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CLOSE YOUR EYES This is a typical sound that you can get in distance walking in the woods of Brianza. Cutting trees and wood with a chainsaw. After looking at the image of the forest on the previous page, scan the QR code, close your eyes and immerse yourself in that context.
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STASIRA IN LÈTC PRÈST CHE DÙMAN SE LAVURA! Tonight we go to bed early because tomorrow we work.
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rianza is known as a land of savers and hard workers, of companies, entrepreneurial initiatives and a bold vision. The economic prosperity of Brianza, starting from the years of the economic boom or miracle, has attracted substantial migratory flows first from the North East and then also from Southern Italy. Over time, even in rural Brianza, new immigrants have integrated by merging with the locals and contributing to the formation of a small melting pot. Previously there had been migratory phenomena of Brianza towards abroad (there is also a “via Brianza” outside Italy, in Henderson, Nevada). The economy of Lombardy and Brianza is characterized by a great variety of sectors in which it is developed. They range from traditional sectors, such as agriculture and livestock, to heavy and light industry, but also the tertiary sector has had a strong development in recent decades. The region’s agriculture mainly focuses on the production of cereals (maize, rice, wheat), vegetables, fruit (pears and melons) and wine. The production of forage, used for the breeding of cattle and pigs, is highly developed. The industry is dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises, mostly family-owned, but also by large
companies. It is thriving in many sectors, particularly in the mechanical, electronic, metallurgical, textile, chemical and petrochemical, pharmaceutical, food, publishing, footwear and furniture sectors. The protagonist of the second industrial revolution, the summit of the Blue banana, the Sunbelt, the “Industrial Pentagon” London - Paris - Hamburg - Munich - Milan and the Turin - Milan - Genoa industrial triangle, Brianza is one of the most productive regions on the continent. Did anyone have doubts about the great land of Brianza? Of course not: Brianza, when it comes to getting busy at work, is always a certainty.
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Home work counter. The Brianzolo is known for having a strong working nature. This is why even on weekends, relaxation is not the order of the day, but manual jobs are preferred, such as arranging and taking care of the garden, cutting plants, cutting with the hose, hammering and so on. In the photo you can see a classic and old school, home work counter with different work tools and crafts. Lecco is also renowned for the craftsmanship of wicker for the production of baskets and baskets.
75 Brianzolo welder operator. Snapshots from Lecco’s ancient and mutifaceted manufacturing tradition. In the second half of the twentieth century the crises of the great Italian industries caused the start of a rapid process of dismantling the main city steel mills, and with it the advent of a third phase in which Lecco finds its wealth in the tertiary sector, in tourism and in the building explosion. The economic history of Lecco has gone through three distinct phases: the silk one, the steel one and the building one. Today, on the other hand, commercial activity and industry are developed, in particular engineering, steel and electrotechnics.
Plowing of fields. The new companies that are born in these provinces, characterized by a very low weight of agricultural activity, are mainly oriented towards service activities or towards sectors scarcely present in the Lombard production systems (horticulture, viticulture, fruit growing, breeding of minor species ).
Iron wire. Wire-drawing continues to be a feature of manufacturing in Lecco. Also for this reason it is called the “iron city”. During the second industrial phase (late nineteenth century - mid twentieth century) Lecco became one of the first industrial cities in Italy with the rise in its territory of numerous steel mills and a large number of industries using iron for the most diverse purposes. Many peripheral areas were then urbanized with large warehouses, gradually filling the territory of the basin between the lake and the mountains, historically settled in small isolated villages around the “walled Lecco”.
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PUTTÒST CHE RÒBBA VANZA, CREPA PANZA! Rather than leftover stuff, let it crunch your belly.
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he Brianza cuisine is similar to the Milanese one, although more “poor”. Among the typical dishes there are: nervitt (cartilage obtained from veal feet then boiled, boned and finely sliced), polenta, risotto alla monzese (saffron risotto with the addition of pieces of luganega), brianzolo minestrone, the busecca, the cassoeula, the ossibuchi, the goat, cow and mixed cheeses, the sweet turta village typical of the patronal feasts of the Brianza towns, and the oss de mort, (hard biscuits made with hazelnuts). The Brianza area is known for the production of cured meats, the most important of which is the Brianza DOP salami. Other typical cured meats are murtadèla brianzola (liver mortadella) and vanilla (a particular type of cotechino). As far as wines are concerned, viticulture was once very common in Brianza, but it has been brought to its knees since the early twentieth century due to the appearance of phylloxera; for decades wine production was therefore relegated to a few hill towns in the Brianza Lecco area, but was reborn when starting from an initial hectare on the hills of Perego, the growth of a reality that now has several hectares of vineyards (40 000 , until now, the annual bottles), extended throughout the Curone park. The wines produced in this area have now become a Typical Geographical Indication, becoming part of the
“Terre Lariane” consortium. Various foods and products from Brianza are part of the list of traditional Lombard food products; among these there are the lamb of Breed Brianzola, a sheep species typical of this area, and the rosemary and sage of Montevecchia, however particularly suited to the production of aromatic herbs. Brianza food and wine, linked to agriculture practiced in the northern part of the Brianza area, has been re-evaluated, also using products imported from other areas.
Cassœula is a winter dish typical of the popular tradition of Lombard cuisine. The main ingredients of the cassœula are the cabbage, and the less noble parts of the pork.
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Büsèca. It is a second dish typical of the popular Milanese and Lombard cuisine. It is generally prepared during the winter season. It is based on tripe, beans, tomato sauce, carrots and celery. Busecca (or büsèca in unified spelling), in western Lombard dialect, in fact means “tripe”, ie the offal obtained from different parts of the stomach of cattle and not, as generally believed, from their intestines.
Risòtt col zafran ei òs büüs. It is the most typical and well-known dish of Milan. It is a risotto whose main ingredients, in addition to those needed to prepare a white risotto, are saffron, from which its characteristic yellow color derives, and ox marrow. It can also be served as a side dish for ossobuco, another typical Milanese dish.
Pulenta. Polenta is a typical dish of the Lombard tradition made with corn flour. A copper pot is usually used for cooking. Polenta is served with cheese, eggs, sausage, mushrooms, eggs, braised meat or stew.
79 Luganega. Is the traditional name given in Lombardy, Veneto and other Po-Alpine regions to a fresh pork sausage, similar to the category of sausages. The pork, minced together with pork fat, is stuffed into a string and is to be eaten after cooking the product directly or in the preparation of other dishes, such as risotto. Particularly rich is the luganega di Monza in whose mixture there are also grana cheese, meat broth and wine; it is the fundamental ingredient for risotto alla monzese.
MissultĂŠn. Missoltini are a typical culinary specialty of Lake Como, particularly recognized in the Larian area. Their preparation is rather complex: they are agons (alosa fallax lacustris), fish from the lake that must be dried in special hygienically controlled ovens, abandoning the primordial method of drying in the sun to ensure the integrity of the product from a health point of view and organoleptic.
Pan Tramvai. The pan tramvai is a typical dessert of Brianza made with white flour and raisins, in the 50s and 60s it represented the snack for those who had to reach Milan by tram from Monza. The journey was quite long, given that the tracks ran along the countryside and that, in order not to disturb the animals, a limit of 15 kilometers per hour was imposed. So in the long hours of waiting, perhaps even in the cold, that bread rich in sugars, given by the high concentration of dried grapes, was ideal.
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Black grapes in Brianza. An 1876 census activated by the Brianteo Agricultural Consortium ascertained the existence of the cultivation in Brianza of 46 types of grapes, but the same commission charged with indicating which ones were
the most suitable types of grapes for soils and peaks of Brianza, provided the indication to limit oneself to the most suitable and advantageous cultivation of Cornetta, Barbera, Uvetta, Malvasia and Barbasina.
Terrazze di Montevecchia, vineyard. As far as wines are concerned, viticulture was once very common in Brianza, but it has been brought to its knees since the early twentieth century due to the appearance of phylloxera; for decades wine production was therefore relegated to a few hilly municipalities in the Brianza Lecco area, but was reborn when starting from an initial hectare on the hills of Perego,
the growth of a reality that now has several hectares of vineyards (40 000 , until now, the annual bottles), extended throughout the Curone park. The wines produced in this area have now become a Typical Geographical Indication, becoming part of the “Terre Lariane” consortium.
NÒS DE ME MISSEE, MORON DE ME PADER, E VIT DE MÌ! My grandfather’s walnuts, my father’s mulberries, and my vineyard.
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LA BUCA L’È MINGA STRACCA SE LA SA MINGA DE VACCA! The mouth is not tired if it does not taste of cow - salami or cheese.
83 Salame Brianza DOP. Salame Brianza is a protected designation of origin (PDO) salami. Salame Brianza is a pork meat-based preparation with a Protected Designation of Origin, originally from the area called Brianza. It is mainly composed of municipalities now belonging to the Province of Lecco, of which it forms the south-western part, and by some municipalities of the Province of Como as well as a small number of municipalities in the Province of Monza and Brianza, once belonging to the Pieve di Agliate. Salame Brianza can be produced with a fine grain and coarse grain according to the method of grinding the pasta.
Cheeses in Brianza. The continuity between the various generations and the handing down of precious secrets have been fundamental to make the new generations discover the culinary excellence of Brianza. From the Adda river in Milan to the shores of Lake Como, these lands continue to offer cereal and nursery crops that represent almost all of Brianza’s peasant production. This territory still offers some indigenous excellences such as: Brianza parsley, cabbage, Albavilla chestnuts and walnuts and hazelnuts from the Brianza hills. Do not underestimate the excellent cheeses such as quartirolo, stracchino and gorgonzola, which owe their quality to the excellent Brianza-fodder.
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DEGH ADÒSS CHE L’È DE MUNSCIA! “Beat him who is from Monza.” Monza for the Brianzoli who live in the province of Como and Lecco is already considered a little Milanese, and therefore those who live there are considered citizens. There’s a pinch of hate, you know ..
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he province of Monza and Brianza is an Italian province of Lombardy of 878 267 inhabitants established on 11 June 2004, and which became operational in June 2009 with the election of the first provincial council; its capital is the city of Monza, former summer residence of the Lombard kingdom at the time of Theodolinda and Agilulfo. Born from the spin-off of the then province of Milan, 55 municipalities are part of it and it is the eighteenth province of the peninsula by number of inhabitants, the third smallest in Italy, with an extension of 405.49 km², preceded only by the former -province of Trieste and the province of Prato, and the second in terms of population density (after the metropolitan city of Naples). From a demographic, economic and urbanistic point of view, the territory of the Province is entirely part of the metropolitan area of ​​ Milan, of which it constitutes one of the most densely populated areas. The urbanized area is higher than the average of the Italian provinces: the average land consumption index, calculated as the ratio between urbanized area and total area, in fact exceeds 53%, the highest percentage among the Lombard provinces. The most urbanized municipalities are Lissone, Vedano al Lambro and Bovisio Masciago, which can even exceed 80%. The province of Monza and Brianza borders
to the north with the province of Lecco and with the province of Como, to the west with the province of Varese, to the east with the province of Bergamo and the metropolitan city of Milan, with which it also borders south. The province of Monza and Brianza rises in the high western Lombard plain, on the southern edge of Brianza. Its territory is mainly crossed by the Lambro river in the capital, by the Seveso, by the Adda and by the Molgora stream in the surrounding municipalities.
Panoramic view of the skyline of Milan and Monza, from the hills of Montevecchia.
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Villa Reale de Monscia
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The origins of Monza date back to the times of the Celts. The territory then became a historic Roman city (with the name of Modicia) and, subsequently, one of the residences of Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths. A free commune in the 11th century, in the 12th century it passed under the domination of the Milanese, the Visconti, who granted considerable administrative autonomy to the city, which since then remained linked to the political fortunes of Milan. In the sec. VII the historical importance of Monza is affirmed; with the advent of the Lombards, the city experienced a period of great splendor and became the most important political, cultural and religious center in Lombardy. During this period, Queen Theodolinda had her subjects converted to Catholicism (against Lombard Arianism), thanks to agreements with Pope Gregory the Great. Teodolinda is also known for having enriched the town with culture and numerous artistic works: she built a large Basilica dedicated to San Giovanni Battista in which, in 603, the baptism of her
son Adaloaldo took place and where her tomb. During the nineteenth century the demographic growth is accompanied by a series of urban interventions that contribute to giving a new face to the city: the construction of the Villa Arciducale, between 1777 and 1780 and the progressive demolition of the medieval fortifications, mark the settlement of manufacturing units and the expansion of the urban core beyond the medieval walls favored by the suppression of religious properties. The park was founded in 1806 by the will of Napoleon and in 1838 Monza was recognized as a “city�. The Milan-Monza railway section, second in Italy, was inaugurated in 1840: in this era of strong industrial development, the countryside was urbanized and the city merged with the surrounding towns, expanding towards the south (1880-1930), with a regular layout and modern supra-municipal services. In the nineteenth century the construction of villas for dignitaries of the archducal court began and then the Savoyard along Viale Cesare Battisti.
89 Royal villa of Monza. The Royal Villa is a historical building in Monza, northern Italy. It lies on the banks of the Lambro river, surrounded by the large Monza Park, one of the largest enclosed parks in Europe. The Royal Villa, which is also called the Palace of Monza, is neoclassical palace built by the Habsburgs as a private residence during the Austrian domination of the 18th century.
Lambro River. The passage of the Lambro river in the middle of the city of Monza.
Monza Cathedral. The Duomo of Monza, officially the minor basilica of San Giovanni Battista, is a religious building elevated to the rank of minor basilica built between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Located in the homonymous square in the center of the city, it is dedicated to San Giovanni Battista and is the seat of the parish of San Giovanni Battista in the Cathedral of Monza.
Autodromo Nazionale di Monza. The Autodromo Nazionale di Monza is a historic race track near the city of Monza, north of Milan, in Italy. Built in 1922, it is the world’s third purpose-built motor racing circuit after those of Brooklands and Indianapolis. The circuit’s biggest event is the Italian Grand Prix. With the exception of the 1980 running, the race has been hosted there since 1949.
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LASSA PUR CH’EL MOND EL DISA, MA MILAN L’È ON GRAN MILAN. “Let the world tell you, but Milan is a great Milan”. Famous refrain of the song “Lassa pur ch’el mond el disa” by Alfredo Bracchi, 1939.
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ounded around 590 BC from a Celtic tribe belonging to the Insubri group and belonging to the Golasecca culture, it was conquered by the ancient Romans in 222 BC. The original name, handed down by Latin authors as Mediolanum, appears in an ancient Celtic graffiti in the Meśiolano form (where ś makes most likely the sound / d /). Over the centuries it increased its importance until it became the capital of the Western Roman Empire, during which period the edict of Milan was promulgated, which granted all citizens, therefore also Christians, the freedom of worship. At the forefront of the fight against the Holy Roman Empire in the communal age, it first became a seigniory and then was raised to ducal dignity at the end of the fourteenth century, remaining at the center of the political and cultural life of Renaissance Italy. At the beginning of the 16th century it lost its independence in favor of the Spanish Empire and then passed, almost two centuries later, under the Austrian crown: thanks to the Hapsburg policies, Milan became one of the main centers of the Italian Enlightenment. Capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, after the Restoration it was one of the most active centers of the Risorgimento until its entry
into the Savoyard Kingdom of Italy. Main economic and financial center of the Italian peninsula, Milan led its industrial development, creating the “Industrial Triangle” with Turin and Genoa, especially during the years of the economic boom when industrial and urban growth also involved neighboring cities, creating the vast metropolitan area of Milan. In the cultural field, Milan is the main Italian publishing center and is at the top of the world music circuit thanks to the opera season of the Teatro alla Scala and its long opera tradition. It is also one of the main European trade fairs and industrial design centers, and is considered one of the world capitals of fashion.
Gae Aulenti square, Milano.
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Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is Italy’s oldest active shopping mall and a major landmark of Milan, Italy. Housed within a four-story double arcade in the center of town, the Galleria is named after Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of the Kingdom of Italy. It was designed in 1861 and built by architect Giuseppe Mengoni between 1865 and 1877.
View of Torre Unicredit. The UniCredit Tower is a skyscraper in Milan, Italy. At 231 metres (758 ft), it is the tallest building in Italy. The building is the headquarters of UniCredit, Italy’s largest bank by assets, and is part of a larger development of new residential and business structures in Milan’s Porta Nuova district, near Porta Garibaldi railway station.
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FINIDA!
In the following pages I will tell, giving a lot of space to photography, the lands that I consider a land of belonging, and therefore my home. Brianza is a very large geographical area that varies on some details such as dialects and morphology. The land that I consider home extends within a perimeter of about 150 km and is located between the provinces of Lecco, Como, Monza Brianza and Milan. As I said, it was not easy to document all the details of this great expanse of land, I tried to collect the most emblematic landscapes and details, giving more space and interest to rural Brianza, the land where I was born and raised.