Vialba is a district ("

quartiere 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 title of (). Formed a ...

") of

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, part of the Zone 8 administrative division of the city. It is located north of the city centre, adjacent to the municipality (''

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 ...

'') of Novate Milanese. Until 1841, Vialba itself was an autonomous comune.

History

Documented references to a comune named Villalba date back to at least 1346. When

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 were established in the Milanese territory, Villalba was assigned to the pieve of

Bollate Bollate (Milanese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Milan in the Italy, Italian region Lombardy, located about northwest of Milan. As of 30 November 2017, it had a population of 36,488. Bollate borders the followi ...

. During

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rule, Vialba was annexed to Bollate itself, but regained its autonomy with the

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. In 1841, Vialba was again annexed to another comune, Musocco, which in turn became part of Milan in 1923. Vialba remained a rural district until after

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; thereafter, it developed into a low-income housing residential area, seamlessly connected to the adjacent residential district of

Quarto Oggiaro Quarto Oggiaro (; ) is a district of Milan in the north-west of the city. It belongs to Zone 8 of Milan, Zone 8, and has a population of 35000 inhabitants. Name The name Quarto Oggiaro derives from the ancient toponymy ''Quarto Uglerio'': the ...

. Vialba and Quarto Oggiaro are sometimes referred to, collectively, as the "quartiere of Vialba-Quarto Oggiaro".Although "quartieri" (districts) are often mentioned in formal documents, they are not formal entities themselves. As a consequence, there is no exact partitioning of Milan into quartieri, and the boundaries are not rigorously defined. One of Milan's prominent hospitals, the

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hospital, was formerly known as "Sanatorio Vialba", although nowadays the area of the hospital is usually considered part of the Roserio rather than the Vialba district.

Footnotes

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