fell under Spanish domination, Lipomo – like all the villages of the Pieve di Zezio in North Lombardy – followed the same fate; in 1656 the commune freed...

center of a pieve, which encompassed the area that is now the district of Mendrisio except for Chiasso (which was part of the pieve of Zezio) and some areas...

single parish in either 1657 or 1677. Chiasso's church belonged to the Pieve of Zezio (in Como), from which it withdrew in the 16th century. In 1888, Boffalora...