Solbiate con Cagno (''Sulbiaa'' e ''Càgn'' in

Comasco Comasco (), anglicized as Comasque, is a dialect belonging to the Western branch of Lombard language, spoken in the city and suburbs of Como. Comasco is part of the Comasco-Lecchese dialect group. History The Comasco dialect evolved as a co ...

) is a ''

comune A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...

'' (municipality) in the

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in the

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region

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. It was established on 1 January 2019 by the merging of the municipalities of

Solbiate Solbiate (Comasco: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northwest of Milan and about southwest of Como. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,360 and an area of .All ...

and

Cagno Cagno (Comasco: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northwest of Milan and about west of Como. Cagno borders the following municipalities: Albiolo, Cantello, Malnate, Rodero, ...

. It consists of 3 fractions:

and Concagno.

History

The merging proposal was approved by a popular referendum on 10 June 2018.

Roman Age

There are evidences that the area of Solbiate con Cagno was already inhabited during the

Roman Era In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Em ...

. In Cagno a Roman tomb was excavated in 1976 and it was moved to the current graveyard, where it is shown today.

Middle Age

The name "Solbiate" appears in various documents of the 11th and 12th centuries, where a ''loco et fundo Solbiate'' and a ''Solbiate iusta Binnacum'' are cited. Originally part of the Contado del

Seprio Castelseprio was the site of a Roman fort in antiquity, and a significant Lombard town in the early Middle Ages, before being destroyed and abandoned in 1287. It is today preserved as an archaeological park in the modern ''comune'' of Castelsepri ...

, it became part of the Ducato di Milano from the XIV century until the beginning of the 19th century. Solbiate is also cited in the documents Statuti di Como of 1335, when the maintenance of a part of the main road was assigned to the village. Cagno was already a village during the

Langobards The Lombards () or Longobards () were a Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774. The medieval Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the ''History of the Lombards'' (written between 787 and 796) th ...

period, during which the churches of San Giorgio and San Michele were built. Important for the period is also the chapel of San Rocco, built during the 15th century. During the 15th century, Cagno was part of the

Odescalchi The House of Erba-Odescalchi () and the House of Odescalchi are branches of an Italian noble family formed by the union of the Erba and Odescalchi families. The Odescalchi family was, since the election of Benedetto Odescalchi as Pope Innocent ...

family estate. Later, Cagno was also part of the Ducato di Milano.

References

Cities and towns in Lombardy {{Lombardy-geo-stub