Nosedo

Nosedo
Quartiere of Milan
The "Christ Blessing" of Nosedo
Country	Italy
Region	Lombardy
Province	Milan
Comune	Milan
Zone	4
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Nosedo (Nosed in Lombard) is a district ("quartiere") of the city of Milan, Italy. It is part of the Zone 4 administrative division, located south of the city centre. Until 1870, it was an autonomous comune. The name comes from the Latin nocetum, meaning "walnut forest", as walnut trees used to be common in the area.

A settlement in Nosedo is reported since the middle ages, when the Goths controlled the Milanese. It is reported that Milanese bishop Onorato was buried in a church of the area in 569, and that the local population tried to seek shelter from the Goths in a church called "San Giorgio al Pozzo" (Saint George by the Pit).

The oldest reference to the name "Nosedo" (then Nosea) is found in a document dating back to 1346. When the territory around Milan was partitioned in "pieves", Nosedo was part of the Pieve di San Donato.

During Napoleonic rule (1806–1816), Nosedo was annexed to Milan, to return to its autonomy when the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia was founded.

In 1816, when Italy was unified, Nosedo had 393 inhabitants.

In 1870, Nosedo was merged with Chiaravalle Milanese, which in turn was annexed to Milan in 1923.

Nosedo is an outlying district, which has partially kept its rural character. It still has several cascine (i.e., farmhouses), some of which abandoned. Some of these cascine have been illegally occupied by homeless and Romani nomads, and friction between these and the local population has occurred, especially between 2006 and 2008.

In 2003, a large water purification facility (one of the largest in Europe) has been established in Nosedo.