Baggio (district of Milan)

Baggio
Quartiere of Milan
Cascina Linterno in Baggio
Country	Italy
Region	Lombardy
Province	Milan
Comune	Milan
Zone	7
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Baggio (Lombard: Bagg [ˈbatʃ]) is a district (quartiere) of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 7 administrative division of the city. Before being annexed to Milan in 1923, it was an autonomous comune.

The origin of name "Baggio" is disputed. Some scholars suggest that it might be from a Roman military tower called "Badalocum" (in Latin, "watch the place"); others have it derive from a toponymy "Badia Aggeris", possibly referring to an abbey, which over time was contracted into "Badagio" and later distorted into "Badaglo", then "Badaxio", and eventually "Baggio".

A settlement in Baggio (most probably of Celts) is reported at least since Roman times. In 221 BC, the territory of modern Baggio and surrounding areas of Trenno, Quarto Cagnino, Quinto Romano and Seguro was conquered by the Romans; they built a watchtower in the most elevated place of the area to control the road to Novara. This place was named "Baggio" in the Middle Ages. The original settlement was destroyed in the Barbarian Invasions.

In 881, a noble man called Tazone refounded the settlement in Baggio; a church dedicated to Saint Apollinaris, with a Lombard-Gothic clocktower, was built on the ruins of the Roman watchtower. During Longobards rule, Baggio became a fara, i.e., a fortified rural community, which in 1162 reportedly granted asylum to Milanese refugees after Frederick I Barbarossa invaded the city. In the same year, a massive monastery was built nearby the church.