NW Italy
Lombardy
Province of Milan

Bresso

Bresso is a municipality in the in the region , located about 8 kilometres north of . As of 2025, it has a population of 26,530 inhabitants and a population density of 7,849 persons/km², making it the most densely populated municipality in Italy outside the .
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  • Type: Town with 27,100 residents
  • Description: Italian commune (comune) in Lombardy
  • Also known as: “015032”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bresso Airport and Milano Bruzzano railway station.

Aerodrome
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Bresso Airfield, also known as Aeroporto Giampiero Clerici, is an aerodrome in Bresso, in the . Originally built in 1912, the field served as a factory airfield until the nearby Breda factory expanded its production to military aircraft for World War I.

Railway station
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Milano Bruzzano is a surface railway station in the district in , . The line was opened in 1879 as part of the Milan–Asso railway, and is now managed by Ferrovienord.

Railway station
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is a railway station in . It serves the towns of and , being located on the border of these two municipalities.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Paderno Dugnano and Sesto San Giovanni.

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is a town and comune in the , in , northern Italy. It is bounded by comuni of , , , , , , , , .

Town
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, locally referred to as just Sesto, is a comune in the , in the region of . It was awarded with the honorary title of città by decree of 10 April 1954, signed by President Luigi Einaudi. is situated 4 km east of Bresso.

Suburb
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is a district of in the north-west of the city. It belongs to , and has a population of 35000 inhabitants. is situated 4½ km southwest of Bresso.

Bresso

Latitude
45.5372° or 45° 32′ 14″ north
Longitude
9.189° or 9° 11′ 20″ east
Population
27,100
Elevation
144 metres (472 feet)
Open location code
8FQFG5PQ+VH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 62515104
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6540583
Wiki­data ID
Q42898
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Bresso” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بريسو”
  • Armenian: “Բրեսո”
  • Basque: “Bresso”
  • Bavarian: “Bresso”
  • Breton: “Bresso”
  • Bulgarian: “Бресо”
  • Catalan: “Bresso”
  • Cebuano: “Bresso”
  • Chechen: “Брессо”
  • Chinese: “Bresso”
  • Chinese: “布雷索”
  • Corsican: “Bressu”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bresso”
  • Dutch: “Bresso”
  • Esperanto: “Bresso”
  • Finnish: “Bresso”
  • French: “Bresso”
  • German: “Bresso”
  • Greek: “Μπρέσσο”
  • Hungarian: “Bresso”
  • Interlingua: “Bresso”
  • Irish: “Bresso”
  • Italian: “Bresso”
  • Italian: “Comune di Bresso”
  • Japanese: “ブレッソ”
  • Kazakh: “Брессо”
  • Korean: “브레소”
  • Kurdish: “Bresso”
  • Ladin: “Bresso”
  • Latin: “Brixium”
  • Ligurian: “Bresso”
  • Lithuanian: “Bresas”
  • Lombard: “Bress”
  • Malay: “Bresso”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bresso”
  • Neapolitan: “Bresso”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bresso”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bresso”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bresso”
  • Persian: “برسو”
  • Piemontese: “Bresso”
  • Polish: “Bresso”
  • Portuguese: “Bresso”
  • Romanian: “Bresso”
  • Russian: “Брессо”
  • Scots: “Bresso”
  • Serbian: “Bresso”
  • Serbian: “Бресо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bresso, Milano”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bresso”
  • Sicilian: “Bresso”
  • Slovenian: “Bresso, Italija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برسو”
  • Spanish: “Bresso”
  • Swahili: “Bresso”
  • Swedish: “Bresso”
  • Tagalog: “Bresso”
  • Tatar: “Брессо”
  • Turkish: “Bresso”
  • Ukrainian: “Бресо”
  • Ukrainian: “Брессо”
  • Urdu: “بریسو”
  • Urdu: “بریوسکو”
  • Uzbek: “Bresso”
  • Venetian: “Bresso”
  • Vietnamese: “Bresso”
  • Volapük: “Bresso”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bresso”
  • “Bresso”

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