A PROVINCE TO BE EXPLORED - Visita Milano

Cavenago di Brianza
Municipal website: www.comune.cavenagobrianza.mi.it
Distance from Monza: 13 km. Distance from Milan: 27 km
Map reference: E 6
Cavenago lies b etween the Molgora River and
Rio Vallone, on the plain to the north of the Villoresi
canal, halfway between Bergamo and Milan.
The first records of this area are from 8 73 AD,
when certain plots of land were b ought by the
Archbishop of Milan, Anspert, from the Albuzzi di
Biassono family.
Palazzo Rasini, owned by the municipality, is of
real interest. The 17th-century section of the building
might have involved work by Martino Bassi and
is built over a 16th-century structure. In the late 18thcentury
alterations were carried out (creation of a
large lounge) using a project by Simone Cantoni. It
houses two decorative cycles: the large numb er of
fragments from a 17th-century cycle coordinated by
Giovanni Ghisolfi and the 18th-century lounge by
Mattia Bortoloni, who was the most famous L ombard
artist working in Tiepolo’s rococo style. The areas
open to the public are on the ground floor. You
enter through a large entrance courtyard and a doorway
located on one side of the portico. All of the
The Rasini family
This family rose to power
in the 16th century and became
part of the Consorteria
Arese, which exercised
s ubstantial po litical
power in Milan in the 17th
century under the President
of the Senate, Bartolomeo
III Arese. The family
lived for three centuries
in P alazzo d i C avenago.
Even today, in Milan near
piazza San Babila, you can
see via Rasini, where they
owned a house.
A part of the interior and exterior of Palazzo Rasini, including the entrance
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