Cassinetta di Lugagnano is the village of Milanese aristocratic villas, considering that in ancient times the noble Milanese families spent their summers along the Naviglio, thus constituting the great heritage of the village. Cassinetta and Lugagnano were two distinct urban centers, located on opposite banks of the Naviglio Grande and connected by a humpback bridge. The oldest core of the village is Lugagnano, located on the right bank of the Naviglio, whose settlements date back to the Roman period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cassinetta di Lugagnano is the village of Milanese aristocratic villas, considering that in ancient times the noble Milanese families spent their summers along the Naviglio, thus constituting the village’s great heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":312072,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"the-village":"
As the majority of ancient settlements along the Naviglio Grande, Cassinetta di Lugagnano as well bends\u00a0its history and its destiny to the presence of the\u00a0canal\u00a0that represented an important route of communication and\u00a0transport to Milan for centuries. Basically, this village is the result of two parallel stories, one is quiet\u00a0and the other rich of misfortunes. What unites them is\u00a0a granite bridge, built in the XVII\u00a0century, which connected the two opposite banks\u00a0of the Naviglio Grande. The most ancient part of the village is Lugagnano, on the right bank of the Naviglio Grande, whose first settlements date back to the Roman era. It was extended up\u00a0to Abbiategrasso\u00a0and it became an important Medieval feud (together with the nearby Robecco sul Naviglio) whose dominion passed from one\u00a0lord to another. Various documents attest that the country was perched around a castle with a moat. However, to this day only a few things\u00a0of that era still exist.<\/p>\n
A different story is the one that\u00a0affected the core of the village located on the other side of the Naviglio: Cassinetta. The term would come from\u00a0Cassina Biraga<\/em>, with reference to the founder of this suburb, Maffiolo Birago, noble of the Duchy of Milan, that here in 1435 ordered the creation of\u00a0the most ancient church of the place dedicated to Beata Vergine\u00a0and Sant'Antonio Abate. A few years before he also dig an artificial canal (called Roggia Biraga<\/em>), which derived from the Naviglio Grande, that would start\u00a0the blades of a mill (Mulino della Pazza Biraga<\/strong><\/a>) that is still working today.<\/p>\n The importance and the functionality of the Naviglio in those centuries enabled the creation of\u00a0the fortunes that the place benefits. In addition to the commercial transportation of goods, the Naviglio also allowed, with a certain comfort for that age, to\u00a0go out of\u00a0the city and reach holiday and hunting resorts. This is how\u00a0increasingly wealthy families discovered the calm\u00a0and the fresh and healthy\u00a0air of these rural areas, and\u00a0owning a property\u00a0along the watercourses that surrounded\u00a0Milan became the trend of the moment. Therefore\u00a0the Villa di Delizia (<\/em>House of delight)\u00a0<\/em>was created: noble homes, surrounded by parks and gardens. Some of these deserve to be visited and admired for their grace and elegance, surrounded by the green and the slow flowing of the Naviglio Grande waters.<\/p>\n"},"stato_borgo":[],"village-conntection":[50522],"borghi":[76315,76322],"village-category":[35899],"class_list":["post-175635","village","type-village","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-cassinetta-di-lugagnano-it","borghi-lombardy","borghi-milan","village-category-most-beautiful-villages-in-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village\/175635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/village"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village\/175635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"stato_borgo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stato_borgo?post=175635"},{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=175635"},{"taxonomy":"borghi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/borghi?post=175635"},{"taxonomy":"village-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-category?post=175635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}