At Mombello di Limbiate, in 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte held court with Joséphine at Villa Pusterla-Crivelli, settling Italy's destinies between festivities and diplomacy: the villa later lent its name to the great psychiatric hospital that marked a century of Lombard social history, now a place of memory and guided visits. An unusual layering for a belt town.
The rest is Groane-country Brianza: protected heathland, farmsteads, the sanctuary of the Madonna del Carrobiolo. Milan is reached by the historic tramway under reconstruction and the metropolitan lines: Limbiate is periphery with an archive.
Near Limbiate
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
