page_title: Brugherio
section_title: Origins and Middle Ages
hierarchical_section_title: Brugherio / History / Origins and Middle Ages
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: La Cascina Sant'Ambrogio vista da Levante, provenendo da Carugate
context_page_description: 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.
  Brugherio borders the following municipalities: Monza, Agrate Brianza, Carugate, Sesto San Giovanni, Cologno Monzese, Cernusco sul Naviglio.
  Brugherio received the title of city with a presidential decree on January 27, 1967.
context_section_description: The first written memory of Brugherio dates back to the Roman Empire when Noxiate, Sanctus Damianus, Baragia and Octavum were designated as the first settlements in the territory. 
  Noxiate corresponded to the current town center (where the parish church of Saint Bartholomew is now located), then split, during the Carolingian period, between Monza and Cologno Monzese.
  Baragia stretched north, including Sanctus Damianus, and south, where there is the present city center.
  Octavum corresponded to the current San Cristoforo and it was located at mile No. 8 of the Roman road leading from Milan to Monza. An 853 document recorded the presence of "a hospice or a hospital for pilgrims ...".
  During the fourth century, the current Via dei Mille was a portion of Via Burdigalense and this area belonged to Ambrose, Bishop of Milan.
  This land was occupied by a monastery of the Benedictine nuns in 1098.
  Ambrose donated the property, and the convent which was there established, to his sister Marcellina, who had chosen to retire to contemplative life.
  Between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, the monastery and its territories went to other religious orders (including Humiliatis). Up to 1362 it was still nuns who kept the administration of land assets after the transfer in the monastery of Saint Bartolo in Rancate.
  The fourteenth century saw the political struggles between Torriani and Visconti for the domain of Milan and the cities under its government. Such strife were also felt in Brugherio: in 1282 it is said that in Octavum rose a castrum which was contended between the two families.
  Up to these events, the current municipal area was already divided in three parishes: the current historic center and Moncucco belonged to Monza; Baraggia that was part of Vimercate and Increa that was under Gorgonzola's authority.
caption: Cascina Sant'Ambrogio (former monastery of Benedictine nuns)
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