Cardano al Campo is a town and ''
comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces ('' province''). The can ...
'' (municipality) located in the
province of Varese
The province of Varese ( it, provincia di Varese) is a province in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. Its capital is the city of Varese (population of 80,857 inhabitants), but its largest city is Busto Arsizio. The headquarters of the Agus ...
, in the
Lombardy region of northern
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
.
Cardano al Campo is located strategically for its economy, since it can be found at only 2 km from
Milan-Malpensa Airport
Milan Malpensa Airport is the largest international airport in northern Italy, serving Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria, as well as the Swiss Canton of Ticino. The airport is northwest of Milan, next to the Ticino river dividing Lombardy and Pi ...
. Apart from that, the town is distant 35 km from Milan, being an affluent suburban town of the
Milan metropolitan area
The Milan metropolitan area, also known as Grande Milano ("Greater Milan"), is the largest metropolitan area in Italy and the 54th largest in the world. It is the largest transnational metropolitan area in the EU. The metropolitan area descri ...
.
Origins of the name
The name of the town is strictly connected to various historical events, as suggested by historians.
The different assumptions considered:
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carduus
''Carduus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, and the tribe Cardueae, one of two genera considered to be true thistles, the other being ''Cirsium''. Plants of the genus are known commonly as plumeless thistles. , a genus of flowering plants;
-kar, a rock or a rocky terrain.
Main Sight
Religious Architecture
*Church of ''Sant'Anastasio Martire''
Twin towns
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Stigliano
Stigliano ( Lucano: , Latin: ''Stilianum'') is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Matera, in the Basilicata region of southern Italy.
The name is likely of Byzantine origin, stemming from "Stylianos", a Greek name with a Latin ending.
Hi ...
, Italy
*
Zarautz
Zarautz (, es, Zarauz) is a coastal town located in central Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, in Spain. It is bordered by Aia to the east and the south and Getaria to the west, located about west of San Sebastián. It has four enclaves limiting the a ...
, Spain
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Cardano al Campo
Cities and towns in Lombardy
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