Cinisello Balsamo, Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, Italy

🇮🇹 Cinisello Balsamo is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Milan in the Italian region of Lombardy, about 10 km (6 mi) north-east of Milan city center.

Cinisello Balsamo borders the following municipalities: Monza, Muggiò, Nova Milanese, Paderno Dugnano, Cusano Milanino, Sesto San Giovanni, Bresso.

The current comune was formed in 1928 by the union of Cinisello and Balsamo, and received the honorary title of city through a presidential decree on 17 October 1972.

History Until the late 1920s, Cinisello and Balsamo were two separate municipalities. By royal decree, on 13 September 1928 a merger was arranged to form the current common.

As a symbol, the emblem of the city now encompasses those of the two municipalities merged: the emblem of the pastoral and the sword on a red field in fact belongs to Balsamo, the rampant crowned lion on a blue field belongs to Cinisello.

Tourist Industry • Church of Sant'Ambrogio (17th century) in Cinisello • Small church of Sant'Eusebio, dating from Lombard times • Shrine of St. Martin Bishop (16th century) • Church of San Martino (16th century) in Balsamo • Villa Ghirlanda Silva Cipelletti (16th century) with one of the first Landscape garden in Italy, designed by count Ercole Silva in the early of 19th century • Gramsci Square is the main square in Cinisello, which is overlooked by the Church of St. Ambrogio and Villa Arconati. • Church of Saint Pio X (1958) • Church of Saint Joseph worker (1957) • Church of Saint Peter (1968) • Church of Sacred Family (1965) • Church of Santa Margherita (1961) • Church of San Bernardino.