The district has a long history of foreign immigration and has developed over the last decades as one of the multi-ethnic areas of Milan, to the point that it is sometimes referred to as Milan's "African district" or Milan's casbah.
该区拥有悠久的外国移民的历史，在过去的几十年中已发展为多种族地区，有时被称为米兰的“非洲区”或米兰的卡斯巴。