Cascina Guzzina
Cascina Guzzina is a farmhouse located in the southern part of Brugherio, on the border with Cologno Monzese. The name comes from gussetta, which formerly referred to the cocoon of the silkworm, whose breeding was widespread in the area.- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: historic building in Brugherio
- Also known as: “Guzzina farmhouse”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Santa Maria degli Angeli Church and Villa Sormani.
Villa Sormani
Photo: MarkusMark, Public domain.
The baroque Villa Sormani is in the village of Moncucco in the city of Brugherio. The Villa Sormani was the site chosen by Count Paolo Andreani to demonstrate the first public balloon flight on Italian soil in 1784.
Saint Lucius, Brugherio
Church
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Saint Lucius in Brugherio, Italy, is a small church dedicated to Saint Lucius in the grounds of the Villa Sormani. First located in Lugano, Switzerland, where it was a Franciscan chapel, the building was disassembled and transported to Brugherio, where its reconstruction was completed 17 years later.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moncucco and Brugherio.
Moncucco
Suburb
Photo: Lucabon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Moncucco was an autonomous Italian municipality until March 30, 1871, when due to a royal decree it became a hamlet of the town of Brugherio, established in 1866.
Brugherio
Town
Photo: Occhigatta, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brugherio is a comune in the Province of Monza and Brianza in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 10 kilometres northeast of Milan. It was established December 9, 1866 unifying the suppressed municipalities of Baraggia, San Damiano and Moncucco, together with the villages of Bindellera, Cesena, Gelosa, San Paolo, Torazza, Occhiate and Increa.
Cascina Increa
Neighborhood
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Cascina Increa is one of the farmhouses of Brugherio, on the southeastern border of the municipality. It enjoys the protection of the Soprintendenze per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici, i.e, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism of its respective province because of its surviving Renaissance architecture.
Cascina Guzzina
- Categories: farmhouse, cascina a corte, architectural ensemble, and locality
- Location: Cologno Monzese, Province of Milan, Lombardy, Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
45.54222° or 45° 32′ 32″ northLongitude
9.29595° or 9° 17′ 45″ eastInception
16th centuryOpen location code
8FQFG7RW+V9OpenStreetMap ID
node 9873232223OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q22809396
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In Other Languages
“Cascina Guzzina” goes by many names.
- Italian: “cascina Guzzina”
- Italian: “Cascina Guzzina”
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