The surname in the town's name is no accident: the fifteenth-century castle of Peschiera, square-planned and moated, still belongs to the Borromeo family, and in 1863 the municipality wrote them straight into its own name. The Lombard brick pile rises among irrigated fields twelve kilometres from Milan.
Its 22,254 residents live scattered across hamlets with the town hall at Bettola, in a patchwork without a single historic core. The farmland of the South Agricultural Park and the channels that once fed the fish ponds — the "peschiere" behind the toponym — preserve a rural Milan that survives right beside Linate airport.
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