Musocco (municipality)

Musocco is a suppressed Italian comune, independent from the eighteenth century to 1808 and from 1815 until 1923, when the town was incorporated in Milan.

The name comes from the word musa, which means marsh, indicating that the area was crossed by numerous streams and springs which formed overflowing of swamping. The main waterway is the river Pudiga.

Musocco stood kept on the road leading from Milan to Varese, with some farmhouse shed in the middle of a wooded area in part. The earliest records date back to the pastoral visit of St.Charles Borromeo in 1605 with a hundred inhabitants devoted to work in the fields. Musocco turns out to belong to the Pieve of Trenno.

Looking at a map of the mid-nineteenth century of the North-West of Milan, one can distinguish, among other areas, Villapizzone, Cagnola, Boldinasco, Garegnano, and, beyond the railway Musocco, Quarto Oggiaro and Vialba. This localization is very similar, apart from the railroad not existing, to that of 1700.

Musocco was the village on the road to Varese about 5 km from the circle of bastions of Milan, with the oratory of St. Joseph, the area around the present Via Mambretti. Quarto Uglerio was a group of houses around the Villa Caimi-Finoli, and the church of Saints Nazarius and Celsus, now Via Aldini, whereas Vialba or Villa Alba, white village, was a little village consisting of a handful of houses inhabited by peasants behind the Villa Scheibler, a patrician villa dating back to the fifteenth century and hunting ground of Ludovico il Moro. The Pudiga stream flowed in the municipality within the park from the Villa passing in its course in front of the church of Quarto Uglerio.

In 1753 the municipality of Musocco appeared to aggregate Quarto Oggiaro. It is part of the Pieve of Trenno, including the Duchy of Milan under the regency of Maria Theresa, counting 203 inhabitants which rose to 474 in 1771. In 1791 it is still inserted in the Pieve of Trenno, included in the XXVII° census district of the province of Milan with the parish church of Saints Nazarius and Celsus.

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