Cesano Maderno is a town and comune of about 39,309 inhabitants in the province of Monza and Brianza, Lombardy, northern Italy. The town borders with the towns of Seveso in the north, in the south with Bovisio-Masciago, in the east with Desio and Seregno, and in the west with Ceriano Laghetto and Cogliate. It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree on 11 October 1999.
Lainate is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 15 kilometres (9 mi) northwest of Milan.
The aristocratic House of Borromeo were merchants in San Miniato around 1300 and became bankers in Milan after 1370. Vitaliano de' Vitaliani, who acquired the name of Borromeo from his uncle Giovanni, became the count of Arona in 1445. His descendants played important roles in the politics of the Duchy of Milan and as cardinals in the Catholic Reformation. In 1916, the head of the family was granted the title Prince of Angera by the King of Italy.
Isola Bella is one of the Borromean islands of Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy. The island is situated in the Borromean Gulf 400 metres from the lakeside town of Stresa. Isola Bella is 320 metres long by 400 metres wide and is divided between the Palace, its Italianate garden, and a small fishing village.
Giovanni Ghisolfi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
The Palazzo Litta, also known as the Palazzo Arese-Litta, is a Baroque structure in Milan, northern Italy, opposite San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, and dating from the period of Spanish rule of the city. In 2018, it served as a cultural center, housing exhibition spaces, offices, and a theater.
Federico Bianchi (1635–1719) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in North Lombardy.
Isidoro Bianchi called da Campione was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Ugo Maria Brachetti Peretti (born July 8, 1965, Rome) is an Italian oil executive, chairman of the API group since 2007.
Pelagio Palagi was an Italian painter, sculptor and interior decorator.
Clelia Grillo Borromeo Arese was an Italian (Genoese) natural philosopher, mathematician and scientist.
Palazzo Borromeo is a 14th-century building located at piazza Borromeo 12 in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy. It was built as the home and business headquarters of the Borromeo family, merchant-bankers from Tuscany. Some of the building complex was badly damaged during World War II in Allied bombings of 1943 but was reconstructed and restored to its 15th-century appearance. It contains an important fresco cycle from the 1440s and is one of the finest examples of a Milanese patrician palace from the early Renaissance.
Bartolomeo III Arese count of Castel Lambro born in Milan on 23 October 1590 and died in the same city on 23 September 1674 was an Italian nobleman, politician, and prominent member of the House of Arese.
Santi Pietro e Paolo is located in Arese, Milan, Lombardy. It is dedicated to the Christian figures of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
Vitaliano Borromeo was a Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal.
The Arese are a prominent family of the Milanese nobility.
Palazzo Arese Borromeo is an historic noble palace situated in Cesano Maderno, in the Province of Monza and Brianze, Lombardy, Italy.
Giulio Visconti Borromeo Arese, Count of Pieve di Brebbia was an Italian soldier and diplomat in the service of the Habsburg Monarchy. From 1726 to 1732 he headed the administration of the Austrian Netherlands. From 1733 until the end of Habsburg rule there in 1735, he was Viceroy of Naples.
The Villa Lita, also called Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta is a 16th-century rural palace and park located in Lainate, just north of Milan, in the Province of Milan, Lombardy, Italy. It is known for its elaborate Nymphaeum integrated with water works and games.
Count Stefano Jacini of San Gervasio was an Italian politician and historian, a leading figure of the Christian Democrats.
