Historical Profile 
'Between all the cities of the Lombardy Legnano is praised between the flowers, like the lion between the quadrupeds, the eagle between the birds, yes to appear like the sun between the celestial bodies, for the fertility of the ground and the availability of the assets being necessary to the men'.

Such it is the description carried out in the sec XIII they give Between Bonvesin from the River 'Ke è im Legnian villaggio', pertaining to the Order of Humiliates to you, than it is thought has taught grammatical to Legnano, to whose hospital of S. Erasmo tied part of its substance.

Between the villages that made worthy crown to Milan in the distance of the times, between the alternation of the passions of the crews, we find Legnano, situated on the Olona river that divides it from Legnarello, with the shoulders leaned to puts into effect them be them of the Sempione and with the arms protese to the already productive inside in forages, hays and bonds wines.

Origin of the name 
Is be advanced the hypothesis that 'Legnano' must be identified with the Liciniacum of the Latins, therefore called from consul Lucio Licinio Crasso.

Others think that the original nucleus of puts into effect them city was formed from agriculturists which, found a land fertile, constructed their primitive rooms on the rivers of the Olona, forced to defend itself from the wild animals nest to you in the near and still present forests in the zone during the first half of the 1800's.

Those do not lack that have defined Legnano like Vicus sour Sepriensis, that is like a village of the Seprio, whose committee made part and like certificate from the wide one omonimo.

In the ancient papers the varied denomination from Liniano, Livian, Legniano and in dialetto Legnàn and Legnarell, altered from Legnanell.

It is believed also next to Ledegnanum, to refuse but because reported to locality perhaps beyond the evocative Po, but pure fruit of fantasy and to discard the derivation from lignum anus or wood of the old one.

According to the toponomastic dictionary of the Olivieri, before the 1000 Lemnianum, become Legnanum in the Gesta Friderici was said imperatoris.
On the base of this approach a roman staff Limenius/Laenius can itself be thought.

Antiquity 
The antiquity of the village is very important. Of it they make faith the archaeological rests, hour had to diggings for construction of buildings, hour to one systematic exploration of the territory.

The most ancient traces of the human presence on the Legnano's territory are supplied from little fragments of a vase to shape of bell recovered between 1926 and 1928 in the zone of the Montagnola, going back to the culture of Remedello (fine 2000-1800 a.C.).

From Gaulish equipments of Sempione course bronzes are emerged, are gone of the culture of the Tène (Iv-i sec. to C.).Important roman rests the features in the 1925 from the necropolis of street Novara.

Draft of coins, plates, goblets, glasies, mirrors, tools in iron. Other interments have come to the light in 1985 in street P. Micca and in 1991 during the restorations of the church of S. Ambrogio.

The equipment is constituted from pebbles, knives, shavers. All the material is conserved to the Sutermeister Museum.

First documentation 
The first sure historical trace laughed them to the 789. Draft of an action of cession of one short situated in Leunianello made from Peter, archbishop of Milan, to the church of S. Ambrogio. Important document not only because the appearance marks us it, but also because it testifies of the relationships with the religious authority. Inserted in the Seprio, Legnano of it followed of glare the vicissitudes, held account of the increase of being able of the archbishop who was not only an ecclesiastic, but also a civil and military head. Legnano nearly was sure been involved in the fights of religious character and social that saw S. Arialdo to go around itself for the campaigns and to inflame with its preech the populations against Veiled Guido archbishop from, until these it had to be sheltered in city from Cooked Erlembaldo. It is not remained trace of the castle, but the from Milan archbishop increased the power on the village through the great church. Of the force of these he testifies an action of 1148, in which Maurizio of Milan points out itself to assets possessed in Legnano from the abbess.

From the battle of 1176 to the 1500's 
Facts and legends interlace in the description of 29 the happened crash May 1176 between the forces of the Alloy and the troops of Federico After a start the negative, in the second phase of the fight the men of the Alloy, surrounded around the carroccio, thanks also to the arrival of fresh troops of I reinforce, succeeded to reject the opposing attack and to force to the escape the Barbarossa.

Colouring, is pure with some indulgence to the fantasy, the story of the battle, carried out in the sec XIV from the Dominican Galvano Flame that made of Alberto from Giussano a value and largeness symbol. To this last one it was dedicated, after the SENSI Centennial of the battle, the monument operates of the Buzzi, destined to initially rise in one zone near the church of S. Maria delle Grazie.

The name of Legnano went up constantly in the sec XIII with the archbishop Leone from Perego, died in 1259 in the city, enriched then of an other precious palace from Brass Visconti, to which it is made to go back the construction of the greater part of the Castle. This, around 1437, was donated from Filippo Maria Visconti to Oldrado Lampugnani, than it made it to restore in 1448, after the pillage endured from part of Francisco Strains.

Inherited from the Greater Hospital of Milan, yielded from these to the Cornaggia, the Castle is passed definitively to the Common one after the second world war.

On the closely religious plan it interests to signal to Legnano, in the 1300 presence of various churches, between which important those of S. Ambrogio, S. Martino, S. Salvatore, S. Maria, S. Agnese, S. Nazaro, not to mention a house of Humiliates to you existing in 1298 already. To they the closing of the industry of the wool must. Eloquent result was given from the constitution of the classes of the merchants entrepreneurs who, acquired the raw materials, entrusted it for the working to laborers specialize. The matriculation of the merchants in 1393 records the registration of the several Ambroxinus, Antonius, Antoninus, Bernardinus, Francischus, Galeaz de Legnano, with the relatives ones marks stamped on the products.

All the churches re-entered then in the centre of Olgiate Olona, transferred to Busto Arsizio (from whose Legnano district depended in civilibus), until same Legnano became centre in 1584, for the increased economic importance and the excellence of its curch.

Threatened in the 1303 from Cressone Mascherine that uselessly tried to occupy it, in the 1339 Legnano it saw to place stretches them of Lodrisio Visconti in the not successful attempt of eliminate Azzo Visconti, Getlteman of Milan that, with the aid of the uncle Luchino, struck it in the battle of Parabiago.

The viscontea-sforzesca age season of healthy economic development based on favorite agriculture from the presence of flour mills pertaining to noble families and the from Milan archiepiscopal Catering represented therefore for Legnano one; but also supported from a discreet business activity they. To give them ulterior importance she supplied Giovanni Oldrendi, illustrious ecclesiastic, public notary, author of numerous deals you of legal, scientific, social, religious character, Vicario of the Pope, university professor to the university of Bologna, of which it was Podestà and where Moors in 1383, lamented from all the population. She touched him to eliminate the action of purchasing of the city, yielded from the Pepoli to the Visconti, than they wanted some to make the epicenter of one confederation to oppose to Florence and Venice.

In the period comprised between the half of the 1400 and that one of the 1600 Legnano she numbered many noble families, between which the Visconti, the Borromeo, the Mascherine, the Boxwoods, the Vismara, the Lampugnani. Of these last ones she appeals to to remember the maniero of Legnanello from the characteristic echo similar to that one of Simonetta Villa to Milan; but also the enterprises of the knight of Malta, Giuseppe Lampugnani who, with a numerous continuation of good, terrorizing the zone, much to force the Vicario of the Seprio to emanate in 1647 ban against him.

Feudal attemp
The 1500 was opened with the completion of the church of Saint Magno, put into effect between the 1512 and the 1513, nearly to compensate the operated bag two years before from the troops of M. Schinner. The population arrived to approximately 2500 spirits grew while, towards the end of the century. To remember that in the 1583 land of the zone towards S. the George they decided to construct, in substitution of a already existing nail head to the end of 1400, a chiesetta dedicated to the Vergine that today goes under the name of S. Maria delle Grazie.

The atmosphere but was upsotten from the explosions to repetition of the plague and from the ban of infeudazione emitted from the dominating Spanish, blanketed in the 1652 from the deposit of L. 6680 carried out from B. Lampugnani in order to redeem the 258 existing hearths.

Legnano and the Comunetti of 1700 
Under the domination Austrian it was started a new thing. The property of Legnano were subdivided in comprising assets first station the lands; and of second station relative you to the houses. With a tablet, therefore called from its inventor, gigantic maps measured were written up.
Legnano turned out uniform in nine Little Commons equipped of independent administration:
Dominante, Lampugnani, Largo Morosino, Morosinetto, Personale, R. R. Monache di Legnano, Trotta, Visconti, Vismara.

To test the business activity, there is the concession of a weekly magazine authorized in 1795, after the demands introduced in the 1499 to Ludovico Attracchi, in 1627 to Filippo IV.

Nineteenth-century development 
With the beginning of the 1800's it began for Legnano a phase of transformation graduates them that it marked the passage to the role of city assumed in 1924.

Remembered that to the half of the 1500 they tradet in cotton the Cornacchia associates of the Prata, from a relationship of the 1807 we deduce that in Legnano silk spinnings existed, of cotton also are exercised in handicraft shape and exited from the anonymity in the 1821 with Swiss C. Martin, that it employed 200 laborers in 1863.

The spirit of citizen and the entity of the understood one employ them to you, the availability of labor to base price favored the opening of the Krumm spinnings, Borgomaneri, of the Fr. plants Of Water (1871), To Bernocchi (1872/73), De Angeli (1875), of the Cotonificio Cantoni (1879). From this last one founding F. Tosi of the workshop in 1882 came.

Slowed down the productive rhythm periodically because of the explosion of many diseases, Legnanesi gave their contribution for redeems from austrian domination, with patriots as Saule Banfi and Ester Cuttica and happly greeted present Garibaldi in 1862.

A natural support given to the legnanesi, industries from the Credit institutions like the Bank of Legnano (1887), from the Credit Legnanese (1923), from the activation of the railroad Milan-Gallarate (1860), from tram-route Milan-Legnano (1880).

From before to the second world war

To the industrial development the increase of the population and the transformation of the inhabited center were accompanied in 1900, enriched from new buildings. In the first years the construction of the new Hospital was started, was inaugurated the new center of the Town hall (1909), already disposed in one house of Cornaggia property.

After the first World War, when Legnanesi gave a large contribution of blood, difficult one, but it graduates them the accompanied economic resumption from the elections of 1919 that assured the Victoria to the Socialist Party.

Therefore the advent to the power of the nazism, with the visit of Mussolini to Legnano, in 1924, for the inauguration of the School of Starter to the job to Bernocchi that, with Technical Institute C. Of the Water (NATO in 1917) favored the scholastic upward way, after the birth of private institutions, before which went back to the age of S.Carlo.

Date from 1935 the beginning of the manifestations of the Festival of the Carroccio, interrupted during according to conflict and the resumption in 1952.

Therefore taking place itself of the second world war with its drammas to us events marks you from strafings, strikes, arrests, deportations and delivering up itself of clandestine groups until the action of you open them 1945, in the course of which the fascist and German garrisons were sbaragliati several, after that the CNL it assured the control of the city.The white one of the gold medals, after To Robino, C. Borsani, R. Achilli, became rich of the name of M. Venegoni.

The modern upward way 
Returned the peace, it restores the powers to you democratics with the administrative elections that they saw to Tenconi like first Mayor of the Liberation, resumptions to turn the motor of the production. The handicraft constituted a valid support to the greater companies; remarkable the development of the third field.

In 1951 new politics were started one urban planning that but found it hard to take off, because the flat regolator endured continuous modifications and integrations for the location of new quarters in expansion, in the zones of Canazza and Mazzafame. Around to the years Sixty Legnano it changed face, with the cover of a branch of the Olona, the creation of the tree-lined avenue Toselli, the abolition of the tramvia, the constitution of a skyscraper, the lottizzation of lands already occupied from old plants, for being able to construct to new rooms to you. Obligatory school have already placed, side by side from the private Institute Skillful B. Melzi (1854), from Scientific Grammar school (1943), grew of the Classic in 1960.

Between the associations, natural point of reference the Legnanese Family, to the vanguard for the promotion of varied initiatives; the Society Art and History; the Sutermeister Museum. To the social needs two houses for old correspond, to that cultural civic Library.

Sure all this does not constitute a Paradise, because of the sensitive decrease of the production, of the imbalance between it upgrades them productive and ability to absorption of the market. It remains the augury that, to the thresholds of the two thousand, the entrepreneurial culture create new organizational structures, to repropose mechanisms that concur to throw again the productive system.