Sesto San Giovanni

Sesto San Giovanni is a comune inside the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, northern Italy. Its railway station is the northernmost prevent at the Milan Metro M1 line. The comune, informally called "Sesto", has the honorary title of city, notwithstanding being a de facto suburb of Milan. An unimportant agglomerate of buildings until the 19th century, Sesto San Giovanni grew in the course of the end of the 19^th century and in the early 20th century, turning into the site of several industries, consisting of agencies inclusive of Falck, Campari, Magneti Marelli and Breda.

In that duration the populace accelerated unexpectedly, from 5,000 inhabitants in 1880 to 14,000 in 1911. After World War II, Sesto have become populated by using many migrants from different parts of Italy, leading to an increased populace of 95,000 population in 1981. Sesto was called the Stalingrad of Italy, because of the sturdy historical presence of the Italian Communist Party and to its resistance to fascism in World War Two.