Nestled in the morainic hills of the Strona stream, Sumirago is formed by of five different towns: Caidate, Sumirago, Menzago, and Quinzano Albusciago.
Place-names ending in 'ago' are usually derived from the Gallic or Gallo-Roman period. Only in Quinzano and Albusciago have been found, however, finds of a village in Roman times. A parchment of the 9th century. announced that the Earl Alpicario Alemagna had in Villa Samoriaco and in Quintani some properties that donated to the monastery of St. Ambrose in Milan.
Sumirago, part of the estate of Albizzate, includes the eighteenth-century Villa Molina, on top of the hill, and the church of S. Maria, with frescoes of the sixteenth century.
Caidate is perhaps the only center to have had a medieval origin. Around the year one thousand, Ca' Vidate, referred to the cultivation of the vine, still widespread at the beginning of the century and which gave a fine wine. The Visconti Castle (XIV century) has been transformed into a manor and passed in 1755 to the Confalonieri and later to the Barbiano of Belgioioso. The current parish of S. Giovanni Evangelistat was built in 1760 "with the money of the rich and the work of the poor" as reported by a Latin inscription on the inside.
Albusciago preserves noble buildings and outside the parish church of St. Siro, with fifteenth-century apse.
At Menzago, the presence of the land-owing nobility is witnessed by a portal with the Visconti crest and a castle of the end of '800. The church of St. Eurosia preserved Baroque paintings and polychrome wooden altar of the '600.
Quinzano, was a Visconti manor and keeps the house of Della Croce Family, who settled in the country in the fourteenth century. The church of St. Peter preserved ancient wooden polychrome sculptures of the '700.
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