Gorgonzola (Lombard: Gorgonzoeula [ɡurɡũˈzøːla]) is a town in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, northern Italy.

[citation needed] In 453 the church, located in the current suburb of Gorgonzola, was attacked by the Huns who destroyed the nearby Roman town of Argentia, causing the small village, which had grown from one "mutatio" (station for changing horses) to become the most densely populated of the surrounding territories.

[citation needed] In the 13th century, the town belonged directly to the Milanese family of the Della Torre, before they were ousted by the Visconti.

In 1288, Gorgonzola was recorded as one of the most important churches of the diocese of Milan,[citation needed] and in 1510 it appears for the first time on a document, with its current name.

[citation needed] By the time of the Italian unification in 1861, Gorgonzola was in charge of administering only 19 of these, including one that was larger than itself: Cernusco sul Naviglio.

[3] For a long time, it was thought that the name derived from the Latin "Curte Argentia" which seems to indicate a settlement near the Roman town of Argentia, situated between Milan and Bergamo, or, according to other interpretations, a place for the horses at the 14th mile on the road towards Bergamo; over time the name would undergo the change in Curt-Argentia, Cort-argentiola and finally Gorgonzola.

In this regard, there are documents in the state of Milan that prove the presence of these cattle, sheep and cows, periodically surveyed and took the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, who, in one of her proclamations declared that the areas east of the state of Milan would continue in the cultivation of meadows for the breeding of dairy cows to be used in the production of cheese.

The main city church is dedicated to Saints Gervasio and Protasio, and was completely rebuilt in the 19th century in the neoclassical style by Simone Cantoni for the Duke Serbelloni.

The sanctuary of Our Lady of Help, formerly dedicated to St. Peter, part of an ancient convent of the Humiliated, religious architecture is the city's oldest.