On 13 March 1784, in the fields on the border with Carugate, the first Italian hot-air balloon came down, piloted by count Paolo Andreani; the feat so struck cardinal Angelo Maria Durini that he devoted a pamphlet to it. The village, by then, was already centuries old: in 876 Charles the Bald, newly crowned king of Italy at Pavia, had made over its ownership to archbishop Ansperto, and it was the latter's will that put Caponago into writing among the first documents to name it.
By 1266 Caponago is already a comune with a consul of its own, and in the eighteenth century that consul was elected by all the heads of household in the community. Two families live together on the coat of arms: the lion comes from the Caponago, with the colours reversed, and the plaits from the Casati, who at the end of the eighteenth century were the largest landowners in the place. There is also a nickname the inhabitants have carried for almost a century, masa curat, priest-killers: it goes back to 1932, when the parish priest Natale Villa was murdered in the village together with his sister.
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📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of September; the following Sunday brings the Palio di Avucat
Caponago celebrates Saint Juliana of Nicomedia on the first Sunday of September, a feast that derives from the old end-of-summer harvest festivals. The following Sunday brings the traditional Palio di Avucat.
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Outside Caponago, but an easy day trip away.
