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Nosedo (''Nosed'' in Lombard) is a district ("
The main landmark of Nosedo is an old cascina with a 13th chapel, located in Via San Dionigi, 77. The church was built by the Associazione Nocetum
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quartiere
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") of the city of Milan
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, Italy
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. It is part of the Zone 4 administrative division, located south of the city centre. Until 1870, it was an autonomous ''comune
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''. The name comes from the Latin
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''nocetum'', meaning "walnut forest", as walnut
A walnut is the edible seed of any tree of the genus '' Juglans'' (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, '' Juglans regia''. They are accessory fruit because the outer covering of the fruit is technically an i ...
trees used to be common in the area.
History
A settlement has been reported to exist in Nosedo since theMiddle Ages
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, when the Goths
The Goths were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. They were first reported by Graeco-Roman authors in the 3rd century AD, living north of the Danube in what is ...
controlled the Milanese. It is reported that Milanese bishop Onorato was buried in a church of the area in 569, and that the local population tried to seek shelter from the Goths in a church called "San Giorgio al Pozzo" (Saint George by the Pit).
The oldest reference to the name "Nosedo" (then ''Nosea'') is found in a document dating back to 1346. When the territory around Milan was partitioned in "pieve
In Italy in the Middle Ages, a ''pieve'' (, ; ; : ''pievi'') was a rural church with a baptistery, upon which other churches without baptisteries depended. ''Pieve'' is also an Italian and Corsican term signifying the medieval ecclesiastical/a ...
s", Nosedo was part of the Pieve di San Donato.
During Napoleonic
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of mi ...
rule (1806–1816), Nosedo was annexed to Milan, to return to its autonomy when the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
The Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (), commonly called the "Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom" (; ), was a constituent land (crown land) of the Austrian Empire from 1815 to 1866. It was created in 1815 by resolution of the Congress of Vienna in recogniti ...
was founded.
In 1816, when Italy was unified, Nosedo had 393 inhabitants.
In 1870, Nosedo was merged with Chiaravalle Milanese
Chiaravalle ( ) is a district (''quartiere'') of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 5 of Milan, Zone 5 administrative division of the city. It is located in the periphery south of the city centre, within the Parco Agricolo Sud Milano nature reserve.
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, which in turn was annexed to Milan in 1923.
Nosedo today
Nosedo is an outlying district, which has partially kept its rural character. It still has several ''cascine Cascine may refer to:
* Cascine (Louisburg, North Carolina), a historic plantation complex in North Carolina, United States
* Cascine di Buti, a village in Buti, Italy
See also
* Cascina (disambiguation) Cascina is a comune in the Province of Pisa ...
'' (i.e., farmhouses), some of which abandoned. Some of these cascine have been illegally occupied by homeless and Romani
Romani may refer to:
Ethnic groups
* Romani people, or Roma, an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin
** Romani language, an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities
** Romanichal, Romani subgroup in the United Kingdom
* Romanians (Romanian ...
nomads, and friction between these and the local population has occurred, especially between 2006 and 2008.
In 2003, a large water purification
Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, suspended solids, and gases from water. The goal is to produce water that is fit for specific purposes. Most water is purified and disinfected for hu ...
facility (one of the largest in Europe) has been established in Nosedo.
Landmarks
The main landmark of Nosedo is an old cascina with a 13th chapel, located in Via San Dionigi, 77. The church was built by the Cistercians
The Cistercians (), officially the Order of Cistercians (, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contri ...
coming from the nearby Chiaravalle Abbey
The Abbey of Santa Maria di Rovegnano () is a Cistercian monastic complex in the ''comune'' of Milan, Lombardy, northern Italy. The '':wikt:borgo#Italian, borgo'' that has developed round the abbey was once an independent commune called Chiarava ...
, on the ruins of an oldest church. The church was named after Saints Philip and James.
In the following centuries, the church fell in decay, to the point of being used as a warehouse, but later returned to its original functions. In 1825, the wedding of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
Ferdinand I (Italian language, Italian: ''Ferdinando I''; 12 January 1751 – 4 January 1825) was Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, King of the Two Sicilies from 1816 until his death. Before that he had been, since 1759, King of Naples as Ferdinand I ...
and Isabella was celebrated in the chapel.
The chapel was restored in 1985. In 1998, an association was founded with the mission of preserving the church and the cascina and, in general, the historical and religious tradition of Nosedo./ref>
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