Beregazzo con Figliaro

The coat of arms, granted in 2005, tells the village better than any chronicle: two towers, one for Beregazzo and one for Figliaro, joined by a bridge; then a black pot in which the pult is cooking, the soft polenta of maize and wheat flour that earned the people of Beregazzo the nickname pultat, and a cock, because those of Figliaro are the galitt. Two proper names and two nicknames, set on a shield. The two centres were separate: Figliaro appears in 1289 in a list of the churches of the pieve of Appiano, and in the statutes of the waters and roads of the county of Milan of 1346 both are there, "el locho da Baragazio" and "el locho da Fitilario", bound to maintain the road.

Beregazzo and Figliaro appear united under the present name from 1753, but the name went on changing. After unification the municipality was called simply Beregazzo, and only in 1912 did it take Figliaro back; then, in 1928, it was merged with Castelnuovo Bozzente, and from 1931 the whole was called Mirabello Comasco, after a height with a tower. The union lasted until 1948. The borders had their own story too: in 1807 Napoleon attached the municipality to Binago, and the decision was cancelled on his fall, with the province of Como of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia.