{"id":669,"date":"2026-02-12T14:28:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/?page_id=669"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:28:33","slug":"melegnano2013","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/travel\/melegnano2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Melegnano, 27 July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Few people know it, but in Melegnano (in the province of Milan) there is something more than the famous motorway toll booth. Melegnano is, in fact, a town of ancient origin and, naturally, it has its own historic centre.
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\n<\/a>Few people know this and even fewer care, so the local administration tries to ease its inferiority complex by displaying banners like this:
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\n<\/a>On the other hand, they also do things that are actually useful for correcting the collective imagination: the information panels about historical sites to be seen in the town would also be useful in Milan<\/a> (where, according to the average tourist, there are only the Duomo, La Scala and the Sforza Castle).
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\n<\/a>As if that were not enough, along the banks of the Lambro river there is a panoramic diagram showing all places of historical and cultural interest.
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\n<\/a>But what are these places? For example, within the municipal area there is a large 13th-century Visconti castle.
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\n<\/a>Or rather, it would be more accurate to say that there is half a castle, since of its four sides only the one in the previous photo and half of two others are still standing. The fourth side is completely missing. As a result, the castle courtyard actually looks like the (rather deserted) garden of a villa.
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\n<\/a>As a rule, I do not publish photos of churches just for the sake of it. It is just that this one struck me as unusually narrow.
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\n<\/a>The Town Hall building has been enlarged in an almost vandalistic way (see the part on the left).
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\n<\/a>But you can look at the beautiful buildings of the historic centre on your own. So I shall go back to telling you about the things that others tend to hide. The most common street lamps in the centre are shaped like strawberries.
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\n<\/a>The most widespread benches are often installed in their minimalist version: without backrests.
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\n<\/a>On the door of a bar near the former hydroelectric power station I noticed an interesting notice:
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\n<\/a>The structure of the power station is still standing. At one time it also served to power the adjacent mill, built in the first half of the 19th century. Somewhere I read that the plant should soon be modernised and put back into operation.
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\n<\/a>I was unable to photograph the still-intact turbine (it is enclosed in a dark building whose windows produced monstrous reflections), so make do with this object of inexplicable purpose.
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\n<\/a>Do you think there is anything else interesting in Melegnano? Only two things remain that I could report exclusively. First of all, in some areas the building development seems to have gone mad. I mean both the overcrowding and the clash of styles.
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\n<\/a>In other areas, obsolete houses peacefully border on modern ones.
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\nIf, after reading this report, you still have not managed to form a complete impression of Melegnano, do not worry: not even I, who have been there, could say what the existence of this town actually means.
\nIn any case, lovers of historic centres may well pay it a visit: they will find a number of interesting things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The photographic account of a tourist visit to Melegnano on 27 July 2013. My assessment of the place: nothing special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":206,"menu_order":38,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-669","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/669\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}