2. The square Don Musa: character and monuments
"Designed in close collaboration with the buildings of the rural [...], porches, barns, cellars, barns, stables, farms, the colombaje, l ' home of the farmer and the farmer and the de 'yokels', the farm-house system can be regarded as a typically Milanese. One characteristic of the farm house, as well as the continuity between the mansion house and farm, was the presence of a garden, in the most important functions of a real park, on one side or all around it. Of course ranged the size and accuracy of the gardens, or parks, according to the disposable income of the family. Borromeo, Litta, Arese, Trivulzio, Brivio, Printing, to name a few, were certainly among the wealthiest families and their houses were often of beautiful gardens, but against these there was a whole system of small houses, or rather Small noble houses, with small garden often emphasized and enhanced by classic architectural systems, paving sought, scattered throughout the system that just was and remains today the osteological structure of the territory Altomilanese. The village of
Garbatola consisted of a series of farmhouses and two noble houses. The two noble houses were being developed around each of the two courts, a rustic shelter for animals and massari, and an elegant, decorated with arches and columns made of granite. Both on their eastern side bordered garden. One was dismembered, split and divided up from the first post-war period, the other was dismantled in 1930 and transformed into the Piazza Don Musa. In every era
Cassina Borromeo were founded or resettled, a number of speakers, small churches for the farming community. They were simple buildings, bare or very ornate, consisting of three compartments: a first compartment for the faithful often square, a second smaller room which was the chapel to the altar, a third compartment adjacent to it, left or right and with that communicates directly to the sacristy. Adjacent to one of the two noble houses, formerly owned by Crivelli and then Salvioni, on the border with the current and the current via Isonzo Piazza Don Musa was built around 1615 the small Oratory of Saint Blaise and Francis.
From the descriptions of the bishops in pastoral visit to the farm Garbatola shows that the front and on the north side of the little church had placed the cemetery of the village. Cemetery but was dismantled in the nineteenth century and converted the first of the old town square. On the map of land LombardoVeneto marked with the letter A is the Oratory of St. Francis, who overlooked the fact that it was once the cemetery of the village, and which is identified with the letter B, "Piazza said on the oratory."
In 1905, the ancient oratory, became too small, was abandoned and north of that in a free land was built the present church of San Francesco and San Sebastian. It did not have a real square, it was dismantled in 1930, a piece of the garden of the second noble house, which once housed the headquarters of the community garbatolese were planted two large trees still standing today, was erected a monument to the fallen and was thus built a new square, orthogonal to the first.
The square today is Don Musa therefore the result of a series of successive transformations and projects.
Act on the streets today is certainly one of the most difficult and interesting together. Design a square for the Garbatola today means first confronted with the past and the memory of the village, on the other to rethink the focus of a community that needs to be recognized in a public place shared.
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Just to continue the controversy, recall that the jury has given us virtually zero points for knowledge of the place. On the other hand in the drafting of the call I was called by the municipal offices, on behalf of the manager S. Morley, to ask if I put at the disposal of historical material and mapping to all competitors ... how sad.
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