{{Infobox Italian comune | name = Cinisello Balsamo | official_name = Comune di Cinisello Balsamo | native_name = {{native name|lmo|Cinisell Balsom}} | image_skyline = Cinisello_Balsamo,_piazza_Gramsci_VL01.JPG | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = Piazza Gramsci | image_shield = Cinisello Balsamo-Stemma.svg | shield_alt = | shield_size = | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | coordinates = {{coord|45|33|N|9|13|E|type:city(73,935)_region:IT|display=inline}} | coordinates_footnotes = | region = Lombardy | metropolitan_city = Milan (MI) | frazioni =Bellaria, Bettola, Borgo Misto, Campo dei Fiori, Casignolo, Cornaggia, Crocetta, Nigozza, Robecco, Sant'Eusebio, Villa Rachele | mayor_party = | mayor = Giacomo Giovanni Ghilardi | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 12.72 | population_footnotes = <ref name="istat">All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.</ref> | population_total = 75943 | population_as_of = 30 November 2017 | pop_density_footnotes = | population_demonym = Cinisellesi and Balsamesi | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 154 | twin1 = | twin1_country = | saint = St. Ambrose | day = December 7 | postal_code = 20092 | area_code = 02 | website = {{official website|https://www.comune.cinisello-balsamo.mi.it/}} | footnotes = }}
'''Cinisello Balsamo''' ({{IPA|it|tʃiniˈzɛllo ˈbalsamo}}; {{Langx|lmo|Cinisell Balsom}} {{IPA|lmo|tʃiniˌzɛl ˈbaːlsum|}}) is a ''comune'' (municipality) of about 75,200 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Milan, in the Italian region of Lombardy, about {{convert|10|km|mi|0}} northeast of Milan.
Cinisello Balsamo borders the following municipalities: Monza, Muggiò, Nova Milanese, Paderno Dugnano, Cusano Milanino, Sesto San Giovanni, Bresso.
The current ''comune'' was formed in 1928 by the union of '''Cinisello''' and '''Balsamo''', and received the honorary title of city through a presidential decree on 17 October 1972.
==Etymology== Cinisello, originally called ''Cinixellum'', is theorised to have its name come from "Cinis Aelli", "ash of the Aelli", the latter being a supposed Roman gens which would have found burial here.<ref>{{cite book|last=Meroni|first=Ezio|title=La parrocchiale di Sant'Ambrogio ad Nemus - Arte e fede nei secoli|date=1993|publisher=Parrocchia di Sant'Ambrogio ad Nemus in Cinisello|location=Cinisello Balsamo|pages=57}}</ref>
Balsamo, originally called ''Balxamum'' and later ''Balsemum'', is considered to have come from a noble Milanese family of the 10th century that had possessions here.<ref>{{cite book|last=Scurati|first=Alberto|title=L'enciclopedia di Cinisello Balsamo|date=1987|publisher=Comune di Cinisello Balsamo|location=Cinisello Balsamo|pages=28}}</ref>
==History== Until the late 1920s, Cinisello and Balsamo were two separate municipalities. By royal decree, on 13 September 1928 a merger was arranged to form the current commune.
As a symbol, the emblem of the city now encompasses those of the two municipalities merged: the emblem of the pastoral and the sword on a red field in fact belongs to Balsamo, the rampant crowned lion on a blue field belongs to Cinisello.
== Demographics == {{Historical populations|1861|5158|1871|5285|1881|5221|1901|6011|1911|7350|1921|7955|1931|10086|1936|11859|1951|15336|1961|37699|1971|77284|1981|80757|1991|76262|2001|72050|2011|71128|2021|74391|footnote=Source: ISTAT|cols=2|align=none}}
==Main sights== [[File:Church of St. Ambrose, Cinisello Balsamo, metropolitan city of Milan, Italy.jpg|thumbnail|right|Church of St. Ambrose, Borgo Misto]] thumb|Villa Ghirlanda * Church of Sant'Ambrogio (17th century) in Cinisello * Small church of Sant'Eusebio, dating from Lombard times * Shrine of St. Martin Bishop (16th century) * Church of San Martino (16th century) in Balsamo * Villa Ghirlanda Silva Cipelletti (16th century) with one of the first Landscape garden in Italy, designed by count Ercole Silva in the early of 19th century * Piazza Gramsci, the main square of Cinisello, overlooked by the Church of Sant'Ambrogio and Villa Arconati * Church of Saint Pio X (1958) * Church of Saint Joseph worker (1957) * Church of Saint Peter (1968) * Church of Sacred Family (1965) * Church of Santa Margherita (1961) * Church of San Bernardino
== People == * Carino of Balsamo (? – 1293), beatified Dominican lay brother * Carlo Oriani (1888), cyclist * Valerio Ruggeri (1934), voice actor * Ernesto Castano (1939), footballer * Pierino Prati (1946), footballer and coach * Gaetano Scirea (1953), footballer and coach * Marco Veronese (1976), footballer and coach * Roberto Cammarelle (1980), boxer * Sfera Ebbasta (1992), rapper * PANDA BOI, Internet personality
==International relations== Cinisello Balsamo is twinned with: *{{flagicon|ITA}} Mazzarino, Italy
==See also== thumb|right|Church of Saint Eusebio * Borgo Misto * Crocetta (Cinisello Balsamo) * Villa Rachele * SS36 * Province of Milan * Lombardy * Lombards * Sanctuary of San Martino * Church of San Martino (Cinisello Balsamo)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Cinisello Balsamo}} * [https://www.comune.cinisello-balsamo.mi.it/ Official website]
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