Agrate Brianza ( Brianzöö: ) is a ''

comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...

'' (municipality) in the

Province of Monza and Brianza The province of Monza and Brianza ( it, provincia di Monza e della Brianza; lmo, label= Monzese, provincia de Monscia e de la Brianza) is an administrative province of Lombardy region, Italy. Description It was officially created by splitting ...

in the Italian region

Lombardy Lombardy ( it, Lombardia, Lombard language, Lombard: ''Lombardia'' or ''Lumbardia' '') is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in the northern-central part of the country and has a population of about 10 ...

, located about northeast of

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

Notable people

Clement Vismara Blessed Father Clement Vismara (September 6, 1897, Agrate Brianza, Lombardy Italy – June 15, 1988, Mong Ping, Burma) was an Italian priest and missionary. He is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church. He spent 65 of his 91 years in forests of B ...

(1897–1988), missionary *

Valentino Giambelli Valentino Giambelli (8 March 1928 – 27 March 2019) was an Italian footballer and businessman, chairman of A.C. Monza Brianza 1912 from 1980 to 2000. Football Life During the Second World War, Giambelli worked as a laborer at the Magneti Mare ...

(1928), builder *

Mino Reitano Beniamino "Mino" Reitano (December 7, 1944 – January 27, 2009) was an Italian singer, songwriter and actor. Reitano was born in Fiumara, a small village in Calabria. His father, an employee at the local railway station, was very passionat ...

(1944–2009), singer-songwriter *

Marco d'Agrate Marco d'Agrate (c. 1504 – c. 1574) was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Lombardy. He was born to a family of sculptors, and collaborated with his brother Gian Francesco in a monument to Sforzino Sforza found ...

(1504-1574), sculptor

Immigration

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Twin towns

Česká Třebová Česká Třebová (; german: Böhmisch Trübau) is a town in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 15,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument ...

, Czech Republic

References

External links

Official website
Populated places on Brianza {{Lombardy-geo-stub