From 1481 for 2 years the wife of the Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza lived in Abbiategrasso, prisoner of Ludovico il Moro, “but she went often in farms and neighbors to enjoy poetry and country to visit people in connection with the court Duke.

“Her favorite was “La Cascina di Santa Maria del Bosco” as they state the documents of the time.

It has been more than five centuries, and incredibly very little has changed since then.

The great forests intact, the lugs clear of Ticino, the abbeys in solitary fertile countryside, castles are known for their well preserved, the farms that still follow the slow rhythm of the mill.

So Santa Maria del Bosco (SMB), with its church of Leonardo, stands a symbol of a past that looks to the future.