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| Canegrate |
More than 2450 years have passed: expanding from the archaeological finds (going back to around 1200 B.C.) coming into the light of the necropolis in 1926 and the documents found in this period dating from 1261 which first records Canegrate as a town. Between the civilization of Canegrate, noted as coming into existence in the Age of Bronze, and the legal acts drawn up between the canonical rule of San Giorgio of Legnano and the Torriani family set the ancient history of this town, which is shown through the collars, hat pins, rings and bronze weapons now on display in the Guido Sutermeister Meuseum in Legnano, in addition to the ceramics dating from the Age of Iron which authorize and hypothesize links with the alpine culture.
The name “Canegrate” makes the headlines for the second time at the end of the 13th century, mentioned in the “Liber notitiae Sanctorum Mediolanensis”, the directory of the dioceses in the Milan area edited by Goffredo Di Bussero; then it had to wait till the next half of the following century to recover the street and water ordinances of the surrounding area made in 1346. Also in this historical time two great medieval battles brushed against Canegrate, that of Legnano (1176) and of Parabiago (1339), traces of mention of Canegrate can only be found intermittently following the appearance of two well-known families, the Meraviglia’s and Gallarati’s, both tied to events occurring in the area during this time-frame.
When the area was hit with the “manzoni memory plague”, especially in the zone of Baggina, Cesare Cantù identified Canegrate as one of the most tormented areas overrun by raids. Known as the land of the Castelli feudatories between the 17th and 18th centuries when the French domination upset the equilibrium of the ancient regimes, which were then partially restored when the Austrians returned to troubled area. The seal of a century of economic progress, the chronicles refer to a peasant revolt in 1901 which ended in the overtaking of the Visconti di Modrone castle. The 1900’s marked the beginning of the clothing industrialization; Cantoni, Ghioldi, Palazzini, Borletti, CGE over-saw the productive events and occupations of Canegrate, and in the last part of the century they surrendered to the past by the transformation driven by the crisis in the textile and mechanical sectors.
At the beginning of the 1980’s was the realization of a purifier in the zone of Cascinette, and at the end of the 1990’s the return of the ex Borletti, now used as trade-show grounds, its inauguration took place in Setember 2006 in piazza Matteotti.
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