The district is centered along two parallel streets (over 2 km long), Via Giambellino and Via Lorenteggio, that extend from the south-west of Milan outwards to the border of the comune of Corsico.

Next to the border to Corsico is also the San Cristoforo railway station, which connects the district inwards to Porta Genova in Milan and outwards to Abbiategrasso and Mortara in Lomellina.

The local population strongly opposed this decision; in fact, as the church is so small, it could be preserved by enclosing it in the traffic island separating the two lanes of Lorenteggio.

At the same time, it was not as isolated or far from the historic centre of Milan, and from the Milanese tradition and culture, as was the case with so called "dormitory" districts (e.g., Gratosoglio or Ponte Lambro).

This resulted in the district being, in the 1960s and 1970s, a sort of cultural melting pot, which yielded a generation of talented "new" Milanese (usually coming from proletarian families of southern origin) who became famous in different fields.

The bar actually existed, and Gaber was a regular there, along with Bobby Solo, Adriano Celentano, Ricky Gianco and Gino Bramieri, all of which would later gain national or international fame (the former three as singers, the latter as a comic actor).

Popular Italian writer Andrea G. Pinketts has often declared to have spent much time in the small bars and clubs of Giambellino and Lorenteggio to find inspirations for his hardboiled novels.