Peschiera Borromeo is a comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) in the Province of Milan

Province of Milan

The Province of Milan : /) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Milan. The provincial territory is highly urbanized, resulting in the third highest population density among the Italian provinces with more than 2,000 inhabitants/km2, just behind the provinces of...

 in the Italian

Italy

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 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 12 km southeast 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 31 December 2004, it had a population of 21,146 and an area of 23.5 km². It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree on August 6, 1988.

The municipality of Peschiera Borromeo contains the frazioni

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...

(subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Peschiera, Mirazzano, San Bovio, Bettola, Bellingera, Mezzate, Bellaria, Zelo, Foramagno, Plasticopoli, Canzo, and Linate.

Peschiera Borromeo borders the following municipalities: 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 ,...

, Pioltello

Pioltello

Pioltello is a comune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 14 km northeast of Milan. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 32,337 and an area of 13.1 km²....

, Segrate

Segrate

Segrate is a town and comune located in the Province of Milan in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. In December 2004 it had some 33,000 inhabitants....

, Rodano

Rodano

Rodano is a city and comune in the province of Milan, Lombardy, Italy, with 4.300 inhabitants.- Geography :The territory of Rodano, 13 km East of Milan, is part of the Parco Agricolo Sud Milano and it's still scarcely inhabited, with vast areas committed to agriculture.The several spring polls...

, Pantigliate

Pantigliate

Pantigliate is a comune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 15 km east of Milan. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 5,541 and an area of 5.7 km²....

, San Donato Milanese

San Donato Milanese

San Donato Milanese is a comune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 10 km southeast of Milan.-History:...

, Mediglia

Mediglia

Mediglia is a comune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 15 km southeast of Milan.-External links:*...

.

History

The land was owned by the House of Borromeo

House of Borromeo

The aristocratic Borromeo family, said to date from before the twelfth century, were counts of Arona from the mid-fifteenth century and played important roles in the politics of the Duchy of Milan and in the Catholic Reformation...

 of San Miniato

San Miniato

San Miniato is a town and comune in the province of Pisa, in the region of Tuscany, Italy.San Miniato sits at an historically strategic location atop three small hills where it dominates the lower Arno valley between the valleys of Egola and Elsa...

 in the 14th century and possibly earlier. Peschiera Borromeo's main attraction is the Borromeo Castle, built in 1437 by Vitaliano Borromeo. The Borromei were, during the later years of the Ambrosian Republic

Ambrosian Republic

The Golden Ambrosian Republic was a short-lived government founded in Milan by members of the University of Pavia with popular support...

, pro-Francesco Sforza, and housed him in the castle while he besieged Milan in 1450. In 1461 Sforza, now the Duke of Milan, made Filippo Borromeo

Filippo Borromeo

Filippo Borromeo was the son of Vitaliano I Borromeo and Ambrosina Fagnini. He was second Count of Arona, and greatly expanded his father's banking trade throughout Europe...

 the Conte di Peschiera.

Peschiera was made a comune in 1863, and, partly distinguish it from Peschiera del Garda

Peschiera del Garda

Peschiera del Garda , is a town and comune in the province of Verona, in Veneto, Italy. When Lombardy-Venetia was under Austrian rule, Peschiera was the northwest anchor of the four fortified towns constituting the so-called Quadrilatero...

and partially to honor the Borromeo Family, it was given the full name Peschiera Borromeo.

External links

• www.peschieraborromeo.com/