The Canegrate culture is a civilization of Prehistoric Italy which develops from the recent Bronze Age (13th century BC) until the Iron Age, in the Pianura Padana of what are now western Lombardy, eastern Piedmont and Canton Ticino.
The name comes from the locality of Canegrate in Lombardy, south of Legnano and 25 km.
north of Milan, where important archaeological findings (approximately fifty tombs with ceramics and metallic objects) were discovered in the 20th century.
It is one of the richer archeological sites of Northern Italy.
First findings were excavated around 1926 in the area of Rione Santa Colomba, and systematic excavation occurred between March 1953 and autumn 1956.
