Carate Brianza

Carate Brianza is a town of 17,865 inhabitants within the province of Monza and Brianza. It is a part of the Valle del Lambro Regional Park and its territory is among 215 and 299 meters above sea degree. The earliest proof of settlements became discovered within the Brovada valley with the invention of an erratic boulder on which cupels were carved, i.e., hemispherical recesses of various diameters. The maximum critical discover, however, changed into a stone sarcophagus dating back to the Roman age discovered close to the Peschiera in Realdino.

From Carate, in Roman times, the Via Regina handed, a Roman avenue that connected the river port of Cremona with Clavenna passing via Mediolanum. Legend might have it that the cutting edge Carate becomes, all through the Lombard domination, a favorite middle of Queen Teodolinda. In the 9th and 10th centuries the Basilica of Agliate, devoted to Saints Peter and Paul, was built by the Archbishop of Milan Esparto, who becomes positioned at the pinnacle of the vital parish church of the identical call, with jurisdiction over sizable territories.