{"id":9750,"date":"2022-03-20T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aida-aerofilatelia.org\/?p=9750"},"modified":"2024-07-20T21:44:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T19:44:13","slug":"the-day-of-the-balloon-in-brugherio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aida-aerofilatelia.org\/en\/2022\/03\/20\/the-day-of-the-balloon-in-brugherio\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 – The day of the balloon in Brugherio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A day of celebration took place in Brugherio, Sunday March 13, to celebrate Andreani’s historic first flight. For Brugherio it is always a great occasion for celebration to evoke that distant March 13, 1784, when the legendary Marquis Paolo Andreani flew up from the garden of his brother Gian Mario’s beautiful villa in Moncucco, accompanied by two young carpenters, Giuseppe Rossi and Gaetano Barzago. , also known as the “du paisan”, who by a “twist of fate” became the first two aeronauts of Brugherio, just six months after the Parisian enterprise of the Montgolfier brothers, whose name later became synonymous with a balloon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As is well known, the Marquis Paolo Andreani, descendant of a noble and rich family, is the one who made the first human flight in Italy, but also the first made outside France and the fourth ever in history. The balloon, which started from Moncucco, rose for 1537 meters and after half an hour of flight descended near Carugate, about 5 miles from the place of departure. Four days later the Austrian government prohibited any other ascension of “flying balloons” in all of Lombardy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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March 13 is therefore a real celebration for Brugherio, which every year (pandemic apart) is re-proposed. The program this time was very rich and was expressed through numerous events:<\/p>\n\n\n\n