Inzago is cut almost in two by the Naviglio della Martesana, dug between 1457 and 1471 at the will of Francesco Sforza to link Milan to the river Adda, and skirted to the north by the Canale Villoresi: canals drew the landscape here. The village still has a set of locks that some attribute to Leonardo da Vinci, in Milan during the last years of the Sforza duchy. The place is far older than the canals: in his will of 870 Garibaldo, bishop of Bergamo, ordered a xenodochium with a basilica, a shelter for travellers, to be built at Anticiacum, as Inzago was then called.
Nothing is left of the castrum of the Sant'Ambrogio monks who held the village: once it lost its military purpose the moat was filled in and swallowed by the square, which is why Piazza Grande is oversized for the place. The plague of San Carlo left a name too: the north-western quarter, where it struck hardest, has been called Cantun pelà, the stripped quarter, ever since. The parish church of Santa Maria Assunta keeps a copy of the Shroud that tradition says Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy gave to Carlo Borromeo; it passed to his travelling companion and by inheritance to the Vitali, until Francesco Vitali gave it to the parish in 1869.
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📅 Every year, on the second weekend of October, with the Cattle Fair on the Monday
Inzago celebrates the Assumption of Mary on the second weekend of October, in the church dedicated to her. The town's feast, very distinctive, recalls the origins of Inzago and its traditions: the main attractions are the Cattle Fair, held on the Monday, and Mass with a procession starting from the square.
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Outside Inzago, but an easy day trip away.
