Muggiò is a city

City

A city is a relatively large and permanent settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.For example, in the U.S...

(municipality) in the Province of Monza and Brianza in the Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 region Lombardy

Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...

, located about 15 km northeast of Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

. As of 2009, it had a population of 23,500 and an area of 5.5 km². It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree on September 27, 1992.
The municipality of Muggiò contains the frazione

Frazione

A frazione , in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere...

(subdivision) Taccona.
Muggiò borders the following municipalities: Lissone

Lissone

Lissone is a town and comune in the province of Monza and Brianza, Lombardy, Italy. Lissone is 18 kilometers far from Milan, that is the capital of the Region to whom the municipality belongs....

, Desio

Desio

Desio is a town and comune in the Province of Monza and Brianza, Italy.-History:In 1277 it was the location of the battle between the Visconti and della Torre families for the rule of Milan. It is also known as the birthplace of Pope Pius XI and the Arsenal goalkeeper, Vito Mannone...

, Monza

Monza

Monza is a city and comune on the river Lambro, a tributary of the Po, in the Lombardy region of Italy some 15 km north-northeast of Milan. It is the capital of the Province of Monza and Brianza. It is best known for its Grand Prix motor racing circuit, the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.On June...

, Nova Milanese

Nova Milanese

Nova Milanese is a comune in the Province of Monza and Brianza in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 13 km north of Milan.-External links:*...

, Cinisello Balsamo

Cinisello Balsamo

Cinisello Balsamo is a comune of c. 74,000 inhtabitans in the Province of Milan in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 10 km northeast of Milan downtown....

.

Villa Casati Stampa di Soncino

Villa Casati Stampa, which is now the town hall of Muggiò, is a neoclassical building designed 1798 by the famous Austrian architect Leopold Pollack. The house was built on a pre-existing sixteenth-century structure, At the centre of one of the longer sides of the villa Pollack inserted a cylindrical section with an elliptical base jutting out into the park; opposite this feature, but on the other side, he placed the entrance portico. The villa was crowned by an extensive park of more than twenty thousand square metres (nearly five acres), designed as an English landscaped garden, great attention being paid to a complementary relationship with the architectural design of the house itself. Today, the park has been transformed and laid out as a sports ground.

The Mausoleum of Casati Stampa di Soncino

The Mausoleum of Casati Stampa Soncino is a plant commemorative monument that features and focuses on the urban cemetery Muggiò (Monza and Brianza) since 1830. Inside, a large rectangular area is then given to the family Casati, an ancient aristocratic Milanese origin Lombard, whose genealogy is proven by 1030. In the mausoleum, a work of art, many buried mortal remains. Here are the different graves and kept a crypt surmounted by a temple of classical greek-order Doric, to protect an altar cross with wood.

Among others buried there:

Teresa Casati (1787 - 1830) Federico Confalonieri (1785 - 1846) Gabrio Casati (1798 - 1873) Angelo Casati (1802 - 1846) Camillo Casati (1805 - 1869) Rinaldo Casati (1844 - 1898) Camillo Casati Stampa of Soncino (1877 - 1946) Alessandro Casati (1881 - 1955) Alfonso Casati (1918 - 1944) Camillo Casati (1927 - 1970) and Anna Fallarino, Drommi, Casati Stampa of Soncino (1929 - 1970), known to chronicle the homicide in Rome.

Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral

The sacred building devoted to the Saints Peter and Paul rises in lombardo-Gothic forms, on the central area of an ex Barnabita College (already the seventeenth century residence of the accounts Porro, maxima lands owners of Muggiò in that epoch), on plan of the famous architects Milanese, Angelo Savoldi and Giambattista Borsani, that they were inspired to the Basilica of Sant'Andrea in Vercelli (1219-1227). Few know that the construction, from a consecrated century (12 December 1897). The laying of the his first stone goes up again at 23 June 1895, witness of the event, beyond to the Archbishop from Milan, S.E. the Card. Carlo Andrea Ferrari (1850-1921). The bell tower proportionate and in perfect style with the rest of the constructions rise between the 1920 and the 1922. The principal façade comes completed in the respect of the ancient plan (1894) only in the 1968; tripartite, this has stayed all dressed again in cooked you with elements in trachite-travertino and enriched with icons tie to the life of the two Apostles. In the presbytery, two monumental frescos "the Delivery of the keys to St. Pietro" and "the Preaching of St. Paolo" dated 1940, work of the contemporary Pietro Cortellezzi, diploma recipient to the Academy of Brera, known in artistic field for have taken part to important exposures like the biennal exhibition from Venice and the Triennale from Milan. The Cathedral of Muggiò a most beautiful ecclesiastical constructions from Lombardy.

External links

• Official website