Bernate Ticino ( Milanese: , locally ) is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the

Metropolitan City of Milan The Metropolitan City of Milan ( it, città metropolitana di Milano; lmo, label=Milanese, cittaa metropolitana de Milan ) is a metropolitan city (not to be confused with the metropolitan area) in the Lombardy region, Italy. It is the second mos ...

in the northern Italian region

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, located about west of Milan. The town is located by the Ticino river and it is crossed by the

Naviglio Grande The Naviglio Grande is a canal in Lombardy, northern Italy, connecting the Ticino river near Tornavento ( south of Sesto Calende) to the Porta Ticinese dock, also known as the ''Darsena'', in Milan. It drops over . It varies in width from from ...

. In 2005 a small Roman necropolis, including 12 tombs, has been found in Bernate's territory.

Geography

Territory

Bernate is located at east of Ticino (river) and at west of Milan, capital of Province, from which it is about 30 kilometers far away. It borders: to the north Cuggiono (through the hamlet of Casate), to the east Mesero and Marcallo con Casone, to the south Boffalora sopra Ticino and to the west with the Piedmont territory of

Romentino Romentino is a town of about 5000 inhabitants in the province of Novara, Piedmont (Northern Italy) east of Novara and west of Milan. It has an area of about . The town mayor is Marco Caccia, since May 2019. According to local historian Luigi Bal ...

. The town is divided into two distinct areas: a central-western one, containing the city center but characterized by less dense settlements and with the presence of forest vegetation that extends up to the Parco del Ticino, and an eastern one by greater urbanized presence. Th