Muggiò
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Muggiò (Script error: No such module "IPA"., Script error: No such module "IPA".; Milanese: Mugg) is a city (municipality) in the Province of Monza and Brianza in the Italian region Lombardy, located about Script error: No such module "convert". northeast of Milan. It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree on September 27, 1992.
Muggiò borders the following municipalities: Lissone, Desio, Monza, Nova Milanese, Cinisello Balsamo.
History
Name
It is believed that the original name of the city of Muggiò might derive from the Latin adjective "metulatus", from "metula", in turn a diminutive of the Latin word "meta", meaning height or mound, indicating its undulating conformation. The diverse etymology that the city has acquired through the centuries is known from the reading of ancient writings. Ameglao is the first inhabited place to emerge where Muggiò stands today.
Main sights
Villa Casati Stampa di Soncino
Villa Casati Stampa, now the town hall of Muggiò, is a neoclassical building designed in 1798 by Austrian architect Leopold Pollack. The residence was built on a pre-existing 16th century structure. The villa was surrounded by a park of more than twenty thousand square metres of surface (nearly five acres), designed as an English garden. Today, the park has been transformed and laid out as a sports ground.
Mausoleum of Casati Stampa di Soncino
The Mausoleum of Casati Stampa Soncino is a commemorative monument in the urban cemetery of Muggiò, built in 1830.
Transport
Muggiò is served by Lissone-Muggiò railway station.
References
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