Cascina Sant'Ambrogio
| Cascina Sant'Ambrogio | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Farmhouse |
| Address | Via dei Mille, 110 |
| Town or city | Brugherio |
| Country | Italy |
| Construction started | 6th century |
| Completed | 19th century |
Coordinates: 45°32′48.55″N 9°18′53.77″E / 45.5468194°N 9.3149361°E
Cascina Sant'Ambrogio is the oldest between the farmhouses in Brugherio, Italy. It is annexed to Saint Ambrose Church from which it takes its name.
During the fourth century, Via dei Mille was a portion of Via Burdigalense. Historians speculate that the location of Brugherio was important for the passage of goods from Aquileia to the river of Fluvium Frigidum in the stop of Mansio Fluvio Frigidum Milia XII. The commercial importance of this land for the Pars Occidentalis Roman Empire alludes as to the presence of buildings and property connected to Monza and Milan. In fact, at the end of the fourth century the area belonged to the Ambrose, Bishop of Milan. He donated the property and the convent to his sister Marcellina, who had chosen to retire to contemplative life. He also gave her part of the relics of the Three Magi kept in the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio in Milan. The Bishop of Milan used to retire in the farmhouse for contemplation and prayer.
The area was occupied by a monastery of the Benedictine nuns in 1098. The presence of monasteries linked to the orders of the Cluniac Reforms was a feature of the Lombardy region. Between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, the monastery and its territories went to other religious orders (including Humiliatis). Up to 1362 it was still nuns who kept the administration of land assets after the transfer in the monastery of Saint Bartolo in Rancate.
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