Church Of San Martino (Cinisello Balsamo)
The Church of San Martino is a Catholic Church, Catholic Place of worship, religious building located in Cinisello Balsamo, in Piazza Soncino, overlooking Villa Casati Stampa. It is the main church in the Balsamo area. History The church was built with the purpose of coping with the city's population growth, which had been brought about by the continuous city building development of the 1950s and the consequent flow of migrants: the Sanctuary of San Martino, old churchIn 1978 the old church assumed the definition of sanctuary, when it had already lost its function as a parish church (see ). The change of definition was probably intended, with equal dedication to Martin of Tours, St. Martin of Tours, to make a formal distinction between the two churches, valuing the fact that the relics of St. Saturninus and Blessed Balsamo Abbot were still preserved in the old church of St. Martin. was no longer suitable, in terms of capacity and functionality, to accommodate the new worshippe ...
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Cinisello Balsamo
Cinisello Balsamo (; ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) of about 75,200 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Milan, in the Italian region of Lombardy, about northeast of Milan city center. Cinisello Balsamo borders the following municipalities: Monza, Muggiò, Nova Milanese, Paderno Dugnano, Cusano Milanino, Sesto San Giovanni, Bresso. The current ''comune'' was formed in 1928 by the union of Cinisello and Balsamo, and received the honorary title of city through a presidential decree on 17 October 1972. Etymology Cinisello (from the Latin ''cinis'', "Ashes", through ''cinixellum'', indicating the fertility of the land from the ashen color, but traditional, though not exactly confirmed - even if you have found Roman remains in the area - is the theory that "Cinisello" comes from "Cinis Aelii", "Ash of Aelius", a Roman gens had here, probably, a branch of the Imperial Age) is the western part of the city. In another theory (also not exactly confirmed) resulting from studi ...
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