The name Cislago is thought to go back to cista, a basket, from the hollow the village sits in: Cistello, Cistellago, Cislago. On the map of the Duchy of Milan painted in the Gallery of Maps of the Vatican Palaces it appears instead as Siflago. With Gerenzano and Saronno the comune forms a peninsula of the province of Varese wedged between those of Como and Milan.
At the centre stands the castle, perhaps grown on a watchtower or a Roman castrum, pulled down in 1510 by the troops of Matteo Schiner and passed in 1620 to the marquis Cesare II Visconti, who rebuilt it as a baroque villa; since the eighteenth century it has belonged to the Castelbarco, a Trentino family still living in part of it. The arms show that castle, red with Ghibelline merlons on blue, under a gold mitre. The Bozzente, which once ran past it and split the village in two, was diverted away because of its floods.
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📅 Every year, on the second Monday after Easter; Our Lady of the Assumption, the other patron, is celebrated on 15 August
Cislago celebrates Saint Abundius on the second Monday after Easter; the other patron, Our Lady of the Assumption, is celebrated on 15 August.
📅 Every year, on 15 August; Our Lady of the Snow, patron of another church, is celebrated on the first Sunday of August
Cislago celebrates Our Lady of the Assumption on 15 August, in the parish church dedicated to her. The feast of Our Lady of the Snow, patron of the church of the same name, is instead celebrated on the first Sunday of August, with guided tours by the Pro Loco.
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