A PROVINCE TO BE EXPLORED - Visita Milano

Central
Brianza
The warehouses on piazza Frette, regenerated to become a business
Feasts and events
Concert for the Immaculate Virgin,
8 December: an event
filled with religious music in
the parish church of Cristo
Re. Vocal Music Show, in November
at the Cinema Nuovo:
this event is organised
by Giulio Zappa, a local piano
maestro who invites,
annually, friends and colleagues
(internationally
renowned singers) to Sovico
to delight audiences with
the best-known arias from
operas and some traditional
folk songs from across
Europe. This event really
should be put in the diary of
any lover of classical music.
Feast of the Patron Saint ,
fourth S unday i n O ctober:
theatre shows, merry-gorounds,
various exhibitions
and a concert by Corpo Musicale
“Giuseppe V erdi”.
Christmas Concert , 23 December:
a concert by the
Corpo Musicale “Giuseppe
Verdi” at the Cinema Nuovo.
The evening is also
when the Luigi Cazzaniga
award is presented to an association
that has distinguished
itself for social or
volunteer work.
created in the 16th century on the site of a religious
building from the 12th century . Following the collapse
of the bell tower, it was rebuilt in the mid-19th
century, but it was deconsecrated in 1935 and has
remained unused. The New Church was created between
1930 and 1935 by an architect from Bergamo
known as Giovanni Barb oglio. piazza Frette, now
the commercial and administrative hub of the town,
is an excellent example of how old industrial buildings
can be regenerated (these were 'revived' in the
1980s and 1990s). The large warehouses that frame
the square together with the smokestac k that towers
above a small piazza nearby are reminders of the
old Tessitura Frette factory. This textile production
plant was located right in the town and, as such, from
1865 to 1983, it was central to the town's fate. In
1983, the factory was moved to Concorezzo.
An old millstone, known as Molino Bassi, is a
reminder of when this was a farming landscape,
dotted with farmhouses named V irginia, Greppi,
Visconti and Canzi. The millstone itself is as old as
the mills that line the L ambro, whic h were designed
in 1615 by the engineer Pietro Antonio Barca.
There were once five water-driven wheels and
five millstones. Closed in 1966, it is now owned by
the municipality.
Molino Bassi
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