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Barlassina
Municipal website: www.comunebarlassina.it
Distance from Monza: 17 km. Distance from Milan: 25 km
Map reference: C 3
Barlassina stands on the right bank of the Seveso
River. A former feud of the Arese family, it then
passed to Count Rezzonico and the Porro family. Until
the mid-19th century the town kept gaining importance
and becoming the main town in a district
comprising also Desio and Seregno. After Italian Unification
it lost its autonomy, whic h was regained in
1901. For more than a century now, it has b een internationally
renowned for its craft production in the
furniture sector.
The parish church of S. Giulio d’Orta, originally
dating from the 12th century, was rebuilt between
1613 and 16 23 and then extended in the 19th century.
The chapel of the Madonna dell’ Aiuto (1527)
conserves a fresco linked to Bernardino Luini but
more probably by his sc hool (Madonna and Child ,
known as the Madonna dell’Aiuto, with St. John the
Baptist and St. Antonio Abate, left, and St. Martin and
St. Lawrence, right), and baroque stuccowork. Palazzo
Rezzonico, now the Town Hall, has a central block
of 16th-century foundation. Several rooms are embellished
with frescoed coffered ceilings; it conserves
Cursa di Asnitt
Every y ear i n S eptember
(week before the third
Sunday in the month) they
organise the Cursa di
Asnitt, a sort of donkey
palio race between the local
districts of Monteu,
L’aqua colda, Fameta, Pulenta
and Parieu, Lo uett,
Cascina Santa Maria,
Fabricun, Burghett. Each
district races a donkey
and jockey.
The exterior and a detail of the interior of Palazzo Rezzonico, now the Town Hall
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