Pantigliate

Pantigliate is first written down on 17 May 859, not in the body of a deed but in a witness's name: one Ambrosius de Panteliate, in a charter of the Milanese monastery of Sant'Ambrogio. The name is Celtic-Roman, most likely the Latin personal name Pantilius with the Gaulish suffix -ate, which marked ownership of a place. The same root returns in a second Pantigliate, near Lodi.

The arms are canting: the red panther issuing from the partition echoes the Pantalìate family, held by tradition to come from here; the azure and silver bands stand for the waters that made the plain fertile; the crossed swords for an armed clash fought here in 1294 between Milanese and Lodi men. The town hall occupies Villa Mora, a sixteenth-century country house of the Capra counts: a lease of 1540 lists noble and rustic buildings, gardens and a fishpond fed by the Parazzola channel. Its name comes from Enrico Mora, a nineteenth-century owner.