A sizeable share of Italian television sets out daily from Cologno Monzese: the Mediaset studios, established here since the 1970s, made the town synonymous with commercial TV — "Cologno" is by now a metonym for the small screen. Around the soundstages, a Brianza-Milanese town that grew fast after the war.
The roots survive in the farmsteads and the church of San Giuliano; the green metro line ties it to central Milan in fifteen minutes. The Martesana canal with its cycling towpaths is the green Sunday escape.
Near Cologno Monzese
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
