In the hamlet of Brusuglio, Alessandro Manzoni — author of Italy's national novel — kept his country villa: inherited from the Imbonati family, he loved it for decades, tending the park with mulberries and black locusts and working on his pages far from Milan's noise. That is the literary claim of Cormano, a town of 19,944 in the northern Milanese belt.
Otherwise the town leads its honest metropolitan life, nine kilometres from the Duomo, with the Grugnotorto park as a green lung between warehouses and homes. The railway station shared with Cusano Milanino keeps it fifteen minutes from the city centre.
Near Cormano
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