The History

Based on the appraisal of rests the archaeological discoveries in the course of the last century in the area of Castellanza, it is they relatives you to the pre-protohistory, roman phase or medieval, it has been possible to frame in preciser way and deepened the average it goes them of the Olona in the arc of approximately shakes it history years. Part from the ancient, protohistorycal period, characterized from the presence of villages scattered, lives to you from populations of celtic origin, that which carried out activity the ceramics production, the webbing, the carding of the wool.

Prehistory and protohistory: the funerals rituals

The greater number of relative date to the life and the culture of the ancient inhabitants comes from the necropolis; the same type of the tombs for more to cassette than several dimensions, of stone, placed sin from the antiquities, under the plan of frequentation and in specific areas, of it has concurred the conservation. The analysis of the funeral materials has rendered the reconstruction of the funerals rituals that had to coincide in the age of the Final Bronze and the Iron, with the cremation possible. This ceremony happened digging a ditch in the land, in which the firewood was placed to which a stretcher was overlapped or of clay in which the defunct one was placed. These were more or less rich adorned with tools, vases, according to the rank, that they often ended burnt in the fire.

In 1982 it has come to the light between via Rome and via for Castellanza an area that introduced some structures in circular pebbles, near of ceramic fragments, which, probably served from support for the driest of is gone. In proximity of this zone it has been characterized also a wall to dry like external fencing to the inhabitated area.

The village of via Rome had to be encircled from a dedicated zone to agricultural activities like they document, the large ones is gone in order to contain alimony, shears, shavers for the shearing of the sheep and for cut with a scythe. The analysis of the rests has allowed to find stylistical analogies with the immense necropolis of Canegrate.

The roman age

The transformation of the inhabited system pre-Roman of celtic type to a city system of roman type happened in way graduates them to leave from the II sec a.C. The cultural models and the hand productions ones will coexist with the local traditions that were maintained until to the augustea age. A meaningful example is the discovery carried out in summer 2002 of one necropolis, recovered to long Castellanza via Don Minzoni to the crossing of via Borsano. Rural takeovers important are born along main the viari tracings like the Mediolanum-Verbanus, that it put in Milan connection and the plain with the prealpine area, whose traced it coincides with it puts into effect them Sempione. Is in this age that seems in fact to go back the system of a peasant, identifiable building, for planimetry and localization, in mansio that is a small farm to inhabited and productive character mixed, plant opened with little spaces and a great atmosphere of job, sovente places side by side to you from carries to us and from one short.

The wealth of equipments in augustea age, recovered in the necropolis of the territory, could be interpreted like one greater comfort, later on to an improvement of the acquired techniques of agrarian type after the lands allocation to the roman colonialists. The study carried out moreover on carbons of the fire funeral attests that in the territory the cultivation of the cereals and the legumes had to be diffused, testified from the flour mills still today conserved along the Olona and from the coming from grinders from the funerari equipments. To that one joins to fruit growing and the working of the wood attested from the presence of axes. Very documented it is the presence of ateliers of ceramics for the production of handicraft.

The amphoras, recovered instead in funeral contexts they were used in the daily life for the transport of the alimentary commodities and from the composition of the clay turn out to be of origin from Italy center-meridional and the Aegean.

The High Middle Ages

The discoveries of via Darlo to Castellanza, had to building diggings, have evidenced a cimiteriale nucleus of within longobardo, composed from interments to typical inumation from which Longobardi had drawn the ritual to bury the male subjects with the crews and those feminine ones. This same area is interested from a takeover late-Roman of the IV-V century, to defensive character, like it demonstrates the presence of massive walls, and this has made to think to a particularly been involved territory on the strategic-military forehead. Not only in fact was in a position of control of the more important way for Castelseprio, but positionited also not far away from the way that they give Milan lead to Novara.

From the Middle Ages to… 

First name of Castellanza characterized, from the documentary point of view, it is that one of Casteniate that appears in a document of 1045; the name it is legacy evidently to the presence of the tree homonim. Something to more we find three it lists it of approximately 200 noble families of the city and the campaign of Milan: between of they they appear the De Judicibus de Castagnate, that is the Judges, that they were therefore the getlteman of the village in that age, and the De Cuticis, that is the Cuttica, than they probably had you of the property. In fact when the Visconti in the 1314 banishes from the city the friends of the Towers, of it they take the assets, between the aforesaid assets appear those of Uberto and Crosino De Cuticis in the territories of Castagnate, Cogorezio and Sponzano. They appear here, for before the time, associates to Castagnate the names of Cogorezio and Sponzano, today nonexistent, that they would have to occupy two areas better identified in the zone of does not put into effect them Castellanza. In 1461, in a relative sentence to the taxation of it knows them, Sponzano and Cogorezio appears like parts of territory of Castellanza, later on does not come more name. It can be deduced that the lived one of the daily Castellanza was constituted in the Middle Ages from three nucleus separates: Castagnate that constituted a common separated until to the half of XIX the century, Sponzano and Cogorezio, that many neighbors between they had to be two small nucleus that they formed in XV the century in an only community.

The Church of Saint Giulio was probably in middle position and it served them entrambi. Is dealt however of small communities that made head the pieve, ecclesiastical territory but also point of reference of the civil life, that the great historical events only lived of glare, above all from Milan, passing from a dominator to the other until to the Lordship of the Visconti, whose civil employee would seem to be the Aricus nobleman whose tombal registration was found again in the demolished bell tower of Saint Giulio, died and buried to 10 Castellanza March 1386. In the 1845 Costanzo Cantoni it implanted a spinning on the Olona river and in the 1886 Luigi Pomini it founded the first mechanical industry. In 1878 the only fusion in common happens of Castellanza and Castegnate.

In 1904 it rose Centers it them Thermoelectrial of Castellanza, thanks to the Lombardic Society for the Distribution of Electric power. The creation of one centers constituted them a remarkable advantage for the manufacturers weaves them and cotton-spinners, that they aimed at the increment of the production. Unfortunately, with the increase of the pollution of the Olona to work of the same industries, the water flowed more and more slowly, and it centers it was put them service outside.