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Veduggio con Colzano
Municipal website: www.comune.veduggioconcolzano.mi.it
Pro Loco: via Piave 2, c/o Library. Tel.: 3393376663. Fax: 0362998313
Website: www.prolocoveduggio.it E-mail: info@prolocoveduggio.it
Distance from Monza: 20 km. Distance from Milan: 37 km. Map reference: B 4
This town is divided into four villages: Veduggio,
Colzano, Bruscò and Tremolada. It is in the Valle
del Lambro Park, on the border of the provinces of
Como and Lecco. The first of the villages that we
have recorded evidence of is Tremolada. It appears
in a d eed t hat d ivided the M ilan D iocese i nto 1 4
country churches. The author of the deed was St.
Monas (ca. 195-251), a Bishop of Milan who is remembered
f or h aving b rought C hristianity t o t he
area between Lake Maggiore, Lake Como and the
River Po. It appeared once again in a diploma from
1162 issued by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to the
Abbot of Civate Algisio. Bruscò is mentioned in an
agreement from 784 between the abbot of the Benedictine
high monastery of S. Ambrogio in Milan and
someone called Teopert. The first record of Colzano
is from 1115. Veduggio is noted in Gothofredus de
Bussero's Liber notitiae Sanctorum Mediolani (1289).
The four villages were largely farming centres until
the 19th century, although they were all autonomous
communes until their amalgamation in 1871.
A view of Veduggio
Giubiana
This festival is on the last
Thursday in J anuary. T he
name Giubiana comes from
the Italian for Thursday
(giovedì), which was the day
when witches gathered to
perform their evil rites, and
it refers to an effigy of rags
and sticks shaped to look
like a woman. It is burnt on
a large bonfire in front of the
village's junior schools and
is a rite that is said to bring
a prosperous and fortunate
year. The fire is lit in the
morning and burns all day .
The festival began in 1859
and, according to the tradition,
as the effigy burnt, the
young people would throw
bits of paper into the fire,
on which they had written
things that they wanted to
avoid. Boiled chestnuts and
vin brulé are available during
the event.
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