The name, according to the most widely accepted explanation, means the end of the fields: finis agrorum, because here the cultivated plain stops and the hills begin, and further on lay the grillaie, the barren ground where nothing was sown. The municipal arms still say so: beside the tower are two fronds, put there precisely to recall that agricultural boundary. The village has borne this name for a thousand years: tenth-century documents write Fenegrao or Fenegroe, but the extra vowel served only to move the stress to the end, since in those days the accent was not written.
From 956 the Milanese monks of San Simpliciano declared themselves owners of the church of Santi Quirico e Giulitta; the first official donation, however, is of 1147 and was confirmed by Pope Alexander III in 1188. Among the streets of the centre there is one the inhabitants call via ümida, the damp street: it is so narrow and so hemmed in by houses that the sun struggles to reach it. Around the village stand the farmsteads, Vignola, Valmorana, Berina and San Quirico. Three thousand one hundred and forty-seven inhabitants in the province of Como.
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