Cassina Baraggia
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| Etymology: Baragia | |
| Coordinates: 45°33′30″N 9°18′28″E / 45.55833°N 9.30778°E | |
| Country |
 Italy
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| Region | Lombardy |
| Province | Monza and Brianza |
| Municipality | Brugherio |
| Demonym(s) | Baraggini |
| 20861 | 039 |
| Website | Official website |
Cassina Baraggia is a hamlet of Brugherio's municipality, which until 1866 was a separate municipality.
The name Baraggia comes from the word baragia, meaning "little fertile land" or "uncultivated" land.Cassina, however, comes from the Latin castrum meaning "camp", indicating a farmhouse which was inhabited by more than one family. In the Roman imperial period, the uncultivated lands were part of a mutual fund, with open grazing, which extended to the whole territory of Brugherio. With the arrival of the Lombards the land began to be cultivated and inhabited by private owners.
Baragia's name appears for the first time in 769 when Grato, Roman inhabitant of Monza, set free one of his servants and gave him a land in the village de Barazia. The name can also be found documented in 853, during the donation of certain assets to the monastery of Saint Ambrose of Milan by two Romans. That same document shows that there was a chapel of Saints Cosmas and Damian (now Saint Anne Church) in the area, in turn dependent on the monastery of Saint Ambrose. The building is now located in the hamlet of San Damiano (which did not exist as such at the time). During the 12th century the Milanese territory was divided into counties and parishes. In the parish of Vimercate, Brugherium and Sanctus Damianus de Baraza, were under Martesana's county.
Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, appointed as feudal lords of Vimercate the family Secco Borella in 1475. In 1554 Ludovico Maria Sforza gave the land of Vimercate to Count Ludovico Secchi. The last feudal lord was Luigi Trotti, son of Count Trotti (Senator Johannes Baptista) and Maria Giulia "Seccoborella". On June 15, 1578, with the pastoral visit of Archbishop Charles Borromeo, the property was incorporated into the parish of Saint Bartholomew. The next day, the archbishop visited the chapel of Saint Margaret, itself annexed to the house of Giovanni Battista Bernareggi (today called Villa Brivio) in Baraggia. In 1594 the Inhabitants of Baraggia numbered about a hundred. In 1621, the year of the pastoral visit of Federigo Borromeo to the church of Saint Bartholomew, Baraggia numbered 96 inhabitants.
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