Caronno Pertusella

Situated to the southeastern border of the Varese Province, until to the 1940 was called Caronno Milanese in order to distinguish it from Caronno Varesino. Later on that one of the Pertusella hamlet joined to the name of the old village.

Probably founded by the Romans, its ancient name of Callaonnum has been derived by the Roman military servants carried weapons and foods to the troops. As in the neighbourhood of Milano it was theatre of incursions by several band of mercenaries in the Middle Ages..

As the first textile industries appeared along the Olona River, also in Carono arose the first spinning-mills.
The factory owned by Senatore Gadda had as manager Francesco Ratti, the father of the Pope Pio XI, Achille Ratti. A memorial stone on the wall of the old spinning-mill recalls that Achille Ratti lived here his youth.

Today, Caronno Pertusella is an industrious town at the doors of Milano.

To see:

-the Chutch of Santa Maria in Chiesa Nova, frescoed by Lomazzo