Bollate

Bollate is an Italian town of 36,548 inhabitants of the metropolitan town of Milan, in Lombardy. Integrated in the conurbation of the Milanese hinterland, it's far one of the 11 municipalities inside the Parco delle Groane vicinity. The name Bollate has two feasible interpretations one identifies it deriving from the Celtic beola, or birch, on the subject of the trees of this species that still these days are present in a part of its territory, precisely within the location of Castellazzo, wherein the Groane ferretto terrain lets in the presence of this species regular of the mountains and the pre to Alps.

The other interpretation strains the toponym lower back to the Latin derivation time period bula, waterhole, almost about the fountains, found in big numbers on the Bollatese territory. Bollate is in reality on the road of springs. The first settlements of the Celts in the Po valley date back to around the 5^th century BC bearing witness to a solid presence in the vicinity north of Milan are the findings of Celtic tombs in Paderno Dugnano, Castellazzo, Garbagnate and Baranzate inside the area of Via Nazario Sauro.