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5 unusual facts about Corbetta, Lombardy


Cassinetta di Lugagnano

Cassinetta di Lugagnano borders the following municipalities: Corbetta, Robecco sul Naviglio, Albairate, and Abbiategrasso.

Giovanni Angelo Borroni

He painted frescoes on mythologic themes for the Villa Brentano Carones in Corbetta, along with Mattia Bortoloni.

Giovanni Battista Sassi

He painted frescos for the Palazzo Modigliani in Lodi, the Palazzo Brentano of Corbetta, where other artists such as Mattia Bortoloni, Giovanni Angelo Borroni, Giovanni Antonio Cucchi.

Magneti Marelli

Headquartered in Corbetta (province of Milan), the company includes 86 manufacturing plants, 12 R&D centres and 26 application centers in 19 countries.

Santo Stefano Ticino

Santo Stefano Ticino borders the following municipalities: Arluno, Ossona, Marcallo con Casone, Corbetta, and Magenta.


A.C. Ponte San Pietro Isola S.S.D.

Associazione Calcio Ponte San Pietro Isola Società Sportiva Dilettantistica (usually referred to as Pontisola) is an Italian association football club located in Ponte San Pietro and also representing the towns of Terno d'Isola and Chignolo d'Isola, Lombardy.

A.S.D. MapelloBonate Calcio

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica MapelloBonate Calcio or simply MapelloBonate is an Italian association football club, based in Mapello and also representing Bonate Sopra, Lombardy.

Abbadia

Abbadia Cerreto, a municipality in the Province of Lodi, Lombardy

Ad extirpanda

The bull was issued in the wake of the murder of the papal inquisitor of Lombardy, St. Peter of Verona, who was killed by a conspiracy of Cathar sympathizers on 6 April 1252.

Adalbert of Italy

In 957, Liudolf, Duke of Swabia, invaded Lombardy and caused Berenagar to flee, though Adalbert gathered a large force at Verona.

Andrea Belotti

Born in Calcinate, Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Belotti started his career at the second largest team of the province, then-Serie B club AlbinoLeffe.

Angelo Motta

Angelo Motta was born in the Lombardy commune of Gessate in 1890 and in the early years of the twentieth century served an apprenticeship in Treviglio and Milan as a pasticceria artisan (a pastry baker).

Ardennes classics

Later in the year, there are two similar 'trebles' in Italy: the Trittico Lombardo with the Tre Valli Varesine, Coppa Ugo Agostoni and Coppa Bernocchi in the Lombardy Region, and the Trittico di Autunno (Autumn Triptych) with Milano–Torino, Giro del Piemonte and Giro di Lombardia.

Aurora Seriate Calcio

Aurora Seriate Calcio or simply Aurora Seriate is an Italian association football club, based in Seriate, Lombardy.

Battle of Sirmium

The centre, which had constituted the rearguard on the march, was commanded by Kontostephanos himself, and consisted of the imperial guards units, including the Varangians and Hetaireiai, units of Italian mercenaries from Lombardy (probably lancers) and a unit of 500 armored Serbian allied infantry, as well as the Vlach cavalry.

Besozzi

Besozzi is the surname of an ancient and noble family of Western Insubria still present in Lombardy and Ticino, with dozens of family strains.

Bonarda

Croatina or Bonarda dell'Oltrepò Pavese, grown in Lombardy, around Pavia

Camillo Golgi

Camillo Golgi was born in July 1843 in the village of Corteno, in the province of Brescia (Lombardy), then part of the Austrian Empire.

Cannero Riviera

Cannero Riviera borders the following municipalities: Aurano, Cannobio, Oggebbio, Trarego Viggiona; and across the lake in the Lombard Province of Varese: Brezzo di Bedero, Germignaga, Luino.

Caprino

Caprino Bergamasco, a municipality in the Italian region of Lombardy

Casorate

Casorate Sempione, a comune (municipality) in the Province of Varese in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 40 km northwest of Milan and about 20 km southwest of Varese.

Castellazzo

Castellazzo di Bollate, within the municipal boundaries of the commune of Bollate in the Province of Milan, Lombardy

Charlotte Krona

On April 11, 2011 she was presented as an Easter egg surprise inside a gigantic egg for Mr. Silvio Berlusconi during an Easter party organized by the local The People of Freedom chapter of the region of Lombardy, with the presence of the Lombardy governor Roberto Formigoni and the then Milan mayor Letizia Moratti.

Cosio

Cosio Valtellino, an Italian municipality in the Province of Sondrio, Lombardy

Count Manfred Beckett Czernin

His second mission took place in March 1945 when he parachuted in Lombardy, taking command of the operations that led to the surrender of Bergamo.

Crespi d'Adda

Crespi d'Adda is a historical settlement in Capriate San Gervasio, Lombardy, northern Italy.

Davide Luppi

Born in Trescore Balneario, Lombardy, Luppi started his career at Emilian club Bologna.

Ferrovie Nord Milano

Until the end of the century FNM also acquired the lines Novara-Seregno and Saronno-Grandate, forming a large network in northern Lombardy in direct competition with the Società per le Strade Ferrate del Mediterraneo.

Gian Giacomo Medici

Gian Giacomo Medici (25 January 1498 – 8 November 1555) was an Italian condottiero, Duke of Marignano and Marquess of Musso and Lecco in Lombardy.

Gianni Bugno

He ran for a seat in Lombard Regional Council in the Lombard regional election, 2010 for the centre left coalition of political parties but he was not elected.

Giuseppe Baldrighi

Born in the town of Stradella, in Lombardy, he initially trained with an unknown painter in Naples, where his family lived.

Heinrich von Brentano

The Brentano family, of Italian (Lombard) origin, had settled in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in the 17th century and were recognized as Hessian nobles, with close contact to important figures of the German Romanticism, including Goethe, Savigny and Arnim.

Hieronymus Medices

He first distinguished himself as professor of philosophy and theology in various houses of the Province of Lombardy, whence he was advanced to a professorship in the more important theological school at Bologna.

Iseo

Lake Iseo, a lake in the Provinces of Bergamo and Brescia, Lombardy

Jacques de la Palice

La Palice took part in the siege of Treviglio and in the victorious Battle of Agnadello; he was then made commander-in-chief of the French troops in Lombardy and, sent to help Emperor Maximilian I, he took part against the Venetians in the unsuccessful siege of Padua in 1509.

Jean Roemer

At the close of the war he visited the great military establishments of France, Prussia, and Austria, and completed his studies in Lombardy under the guidance and auspices of Field-Marshal Count Radetzky.

John W. Collins

There has been a long-held belief that Collins was Fischer's teacher and coach, as well as a teacher and coach for William Lombardy, Robert Byrne, Donald Byrne, Raymond Weinstein, Salvatore Matera, and Lewis Cohen.

Limits of the Five Patriarchates

Christians ever crowd until Ravenna, Lombardy, and Thessalonika, Slavic, and Scythians, and Avars until Danube river, the ecclesiastical border, and Sardinia, Megara, Carthage, and part of Balearic Islands, and part of Sicily and Calabria, where the winds blow nasty, from the north, from the south, from the west-south, and from the east-south.

Luigi Fenaroli

His bequeathed a broad scientific legacy, including a large Herbarium and photographic archive, as well as his family's botanical garden, in the municipality of Tavernola Bergamasca, on the shore of the pre-alpine Lake Iseo, where he grew plants and crops exotic to the Lombardy region.

Monasterolo

Monasterolo del Castello, a municipality in the Province of Bergamo, Lombardy

Okanagan Falls Provincial Park

In the 1950s, non-native tree species like Chinese elm, Norway maple, Red ash and Lombardy poplar were planted in the park.

Palazzo Castiglioni

The Castiglioni were a prominent family from the Lombard aristocracy since the 10th Century.

Pallavicini family

A number of lines descended from Guglielmo (died 1217), possessor of a series of fiefs between Parma and Piacenza and a descendant of the Lombard Obertenga family (along with the Este, the Cavalcabò and Malaspina).

Perceval Doria

Between 1228 and 1243 he assumed the character of a podestà in several Provençal and north Italian cities, such as Arles, Avignon, Asti, and Parma.

Pierre Giorgio Regonesi

Born in Osio Sotto, the Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Regonesi started his career at hometown club Atalanta Bergamo.

Porrettana railway

On 14 March 1856, an agreement was signed in Vienna between the Austrian Empire, the Duchy of Parma and Modena, The Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Papal States for the construction of the Central Italian Railway (Italian: Strada Ferrata dell'Italia Centrale) from Piacenza to Pistoia, with a branch to Mantua and anticipating strategic links with the existing lines of Lombardy and Veneto and extensions to Rome.

Rideau Lakes, Ontario

Rideau Lakes contains many villages and hamlets, including Chaffeys Lock, Chantry, Crosby, Daytown, Delta, Elgin, Forfar, Freeland, Harlem, Jones Falls, Lombardy, Morton, Newboro, Newboyne, Phillipsville, Plum Hollow, Portland, Rideau Ferry, and Scotch Point.

Ruggero Bonghi

At Turin he resumed his philosophic studies and his translation of Plato, but In 1858 refused a professorship of Greek at Pavia, under the Austrian government, only to accept it in 1859 from the Italian government after the liberation of Lombardy.

Saint-Félix-Lauragais

In 1167 the Cathars held a Council here, attended by many local figures and also by the Bogomil papa Nicetas, the Cathar bishop of (northern) France and a leader of the Cathars of Lombardy.

SEA Group

SEA Group (Italian - Societa' Europea Autocaravan; pronounced "sayer") is an Italian head quartered motorcaravan manufacturer, based in Trivolzio, Lombardy.

Silvio Poma

Silvio Poma (Trescore Balneario, Bergamo, 1840 – Turate, Como, 1932) was an Italian painter, mainly painting land and lake-side seascapes of the Lombardy lake district.

Torrevecchia

Torrevecchia Pia, a municipality in the Province of Pavia, Lombardy

Varzese-Ottonese-Tortonese

The Varzese-Ottonese-Tortonese is a breed of cattle from the Italian region of Lombardy and neighbouring mountainous areas in Emilia Romagna, Liguria and Piedmont.


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