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DIREZIONE CENTRALE TURISMO E AGRICOLTURA Viale Piceno 60 20129 Milano www.visitamilano.it iat.info@provincia.milano.it General Director Tourism and Agriculture Pia Benci Tourism Monica Giudici Roberto Barelli Colette Perna Anna Zetti Elena Gomiero Press Office Giuseppe Baselice HEAD OFFICE MONZA AND BRIANZA PROJECT Piazza Diaz 1 20052 Monza www.provincia.milano.it/monzabrianza General Director - Monza and Brianza Pr oject Giuseppe Valtorta Project director – society and culture Monza and Brianza Erminia Zoppè Cultural and visitor events promotion for Monza and Brianza Gianpiero Bocca Carmen La Malfa Giulia Prada Alex Tonello Communication and Press Office Marta Caratti Texts Andrea Spiriti Laura Facchin Editorial production Bolis Edizioni via Emilia 25, 24052 Azzano San Paolo (BG) www.bolisedizioni.it Editing, pagemaking and photolitho Studio editoriale Selmi – Twister, Milano Farms and agriturismo centres provided by: Centro di Assistenza Agricola - Confederazione Italiana Agricoltori Mi-Lo, Sede di Zona di Vimercate, 20059 Vimercate - Via Cavour 101, www.cialombardia.org Cartography LS International English version Studio Queens, Milano We would like to thank the municipal administration and officials, P ark managers and Pro Loco organisations of the new province of Monza and Brianza for their help Cover photos Front cover: top, Villa Reale in Monza; bottom left, the Basilica of Ss. Pietro e P aolo in Agliate; bottom right, frescoes by the Zavattari brothers in the T heodolinda chapel in the Duomo in Monza. Back cover: top left, the Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Monza racetrack; top right, the former Casa del Fascio (house of fascism) by Giuseppe Terragni in Lissone; bottom, Palazzo Arese Borromeo in Cesano Maderno. Flap: top left, Vimercate town centre; top right, Bellusco castle; b ottom, Grugnotorto Villoresi Park
Foreword P ublishing a guidebook today is a challenge that tests our understanding of the degree to which our post-modern times are willing to own up to their past and the cultural assets that – to the delight of some, the irritation of others and the indifference of many – form the connective tissue of Italian society . Italy has such a wealth of art but is so poor at investing in it. Its immense heritage is in a deplorable state, partly b ecause people do not see it as a collective asset to b e preserved for them and their descendants. Who would b et a penny on the future of a civilisation that has no love for its own past? Publishing a guideb ook to encourage people to visit the cultural heritage is, therefore, a gamble, especially if it does not simply address the monumental dimension but attempts a global approach in which painting sits alongside gastronomy, architecture alongside botany. One concerns the environment and the other the impact humans have made on it over the centuries, that is to say how it has been shaped to suit our aims and wishes or, at least, how we have tried to strike a balance with it. If, then, the guidebook is on the province of Monza and Brianza, this all also coincides with its recognition as a Province before the national community. It is a new entity that, in order to survive, must show itself to b e competent and to possess distinguishing features: the geographical (southern Brianza has always b een drawn to Milan) and historical (fruit of preferential strategic development to the north) ones are obvious but the artistic one is also crucial. This is a zone of dense but now almost invisible Romanisation and Monza saw remarkable Longobard commissions, epitomised in the treasure of the kingdom. In Romanesque times, the area formed part of the great circuit of basilicas with the striking example of A gliate, followed in the Middle A ges by the major episode of S. Stefano in L entate and then a dense array of castles and hunting lodges, right on down to the gem that is Oreno in Vimercate. The sumptuous Renaissance construction of S. Vittore in Meda marked the start of a series that ended with the reconstruction of the s anctuary of S. Pietro Martire in Seveso at the height of the 17th century. The core focus of the 17th and 18th centuries was, however, the construction of palaces and villas, with the inescapable European-wide paradigm of Palazzo Arese Borromeo in Ces ano Maderno. This rich succession continued into the 19th century with the prominent poles of Vimercate and Monza, but also Cavenago, Arcore, Macherio and Varedo. The financial opulence of the 19th-century and then the presence of the Savoy court in Monza translated into an impressive fabric of villas and churches (in addition to the continuity of Monza’s Villa Reale, suffice to mention the neo-Gothic Villa Traversi Tittoni in Desio, ahead of its times in Europe). N or did the 2 0th century lac k great ac hievements, starting with Giuseppe Terragni’s formidable designs in Lissone and Seveso. Andrea Spiriti
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Seveso Municipal website: www.comun
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Western Brianza Seveso celebrates C
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Swach Museum The Swatch World Museu
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Western Brianza Visiting the Palazz
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Western Brianza The church of S. Pa
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Western Brianza Illustrious guests
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Western Brianza Bagatti Valsecchi T
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Western Brianza Villa Vertua, insid
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Western Brianza Pius XI Ambrogio Da
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Seregno Municipal website: www.comu
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Central Brianza Romanesque and Neoc
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Central Brianza The 17th-century pa
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Central Brianza The open-air sculpt
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Central Brianza Villa Pagani and, r
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Central Brianza The Basilica of Ss.
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Central Brianza Monza-Molteno- Lecc
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Giussano Municipal website: www.com
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Correzzana Municipal website: www.c
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Biassono Municipal website: www.com
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Central Brianza Visiting the museum
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Central Brianza S. Maria delle Selv
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Central Brianza Events in Lissone E
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Central Brianza The 19th-century pa
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Eastern Brianza and the noble villa
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Eastern Brianza To learn more In 20
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Eastern Brianza Villa S. Maria Molg
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Villasanta Municipal website: www.c
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Concorezzo Municipal website: www.c
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Bellusco Municipal website: www.com
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Mezzago Municipal website: www.comu
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Sulbiate Municipal website: www.com
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Aicurzio Municipal website: www.com
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Bernareggio Municipal website: www.
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Ronco Briantino Municipal website:
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Eastern Brianza Villa Fornari Prine
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Lesmo Municipal website: www.lesmo.
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Arcore Municipal website: www.comun
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Cornate d’Adda Municipal website:
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Eastern Brianza Ecomuseo Adda di Le
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Busnago Municipal website: www.comu
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