Oggiono and its neighboring areas are an area with homogeneous characteristics from both the historical-cultural and naturalistic points of view. Its proximity to the city of Milan and Lake Como, the two most relevant tourist attractions in the Lombardy region, place this territory in a privileged position to reach both destinations. An area that in turn could attract visitors for its natural beauty, lake and hills, as well as make them discover the works of art housed in it.

Historically, the Pieve di Oggiono, has always been a reference point for a wide territorial “constituency,” later, because of the beauty of its places, it was assumed as a home for squires, poets and travelers, and finally, because of its strategic location and the skill of its people, it has represented, and still represents, a productive “center” of excellence, where for years important entrepreneurs and professionals have been concentrated.

All this has made this area great, and today, with a view to tourism-cultural development, it is intended to take up these realities and enhance this socio-cultural fabric with the establishment of an urban open-air museum of supra-municipal significance.

Thus was born the idea, later expanded, with a Memorandum of Understanding, also to the neighboring towns of Annone di Brianza and Ello, to constitute the MUD, Museo Urbano Diffuso. Three open-air museum routes, in their respective historic town centers. A univocity of intent and interest to consider this area as a single cultural and tourist territory.

For historical homogeneity, the project intends to enhance and highlight, through the installation of images, reproductions, tourist, descriptive and interactive signs, a little-known cultural and artistic heritage, evidence of Humanism and Renaissance in Brianza and in particular in that territory called “University of Mount Brianza,” a singular experience of self-government of a frontier community. Each itinerary features a family, whose members, with their work, creativity, and ingenuity, brought prestige to their towns of origin and greatness to the city of Milan: the Annoni family, art merchants in Annone di Brianza; Marco d’Oggiono, a painter and pupil of Leonardo da Vinci in Oggiono; and the Negroni family, gunsmiths in Ello.