Desio

This article covers the municipality in Italy. For the Italian explorer, mountaineer, geologist and cartographer see Ardito Desio .

Desio
Country	Italy
region	Lombardy
province	Monza and Brianza  (MB)
Local name	Of
Coordinates	45 ° 37 '  N , 9 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 37 '0 "  N , 9 ° 13' 0"  E
surface	14 km²
Residents	41,997 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	3,000 inhabitants / km²
Factions	San Giorgio, San Carlo
Post Code	20832
prefix	0362
ISTAT number	108023
Popular name	desiani
Patron saint	San Siro
Website	Desio

Desio ( Lombard language : Dès ) is a municipality in the Italian province of Monza and Brianza with 41,997 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

In 1922 Desio Luigi Giussani , the founder of the Catholic lay movement Comunione e Liberazione , was born, in 1857 Achille Ratti , later Pope Pius XI. , baptized in the central church of Santi Siro e Materno .

sons and daughters of the town

• Ottone Visconti (1207–1295), archbishop and founder of the power of the Visconti family in Milan and Lombardy
• Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti (1857–1939), Pope Pius XI.
• Luigi Giussani (1922–2005), priest and founder of the Catholic lay movement Comunione e Liberazione
• Aurelio Milani (1934-2014), football player
• Luigi Arienti (* 1937), racing cyclist
• Giovanni Bignami (1944-2017), astrophysicist
• Francesca Galli (* 1960), racing cyclist
• Filippo Simeoni (* 1971), cyclist
• Vito Mannone (* 1988), football player
• Luca Caldirola (* 1991), football player
• Marco Sportiello (* 1992), football player
• Luca Moroni Jr. (* 2000), chess player

Web links

Commons : Desio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.