Vimercate in età romana: elementi per la definizione di un centro dell'ager Mediolanensis

[Autom. eng. transl.] The Roman center of Vimercate, included in the ager Mediolanensis, preserves, compared to other settlements in Brianza, a rich heritage of nature especially epigraphic and numismatic, to which is added the Roman bridge of San Rocco, although heavily remodeled in the Middle Ages. The excavation carried out between 1999 and 2000 in piazza Marconi brought to light, in two contiguous areas, part of the necropolis frequented during the 1st-2nd century AD (III-full 4th century tombs found in 1933 were referable to it) and an artisan area used during the III century AD for large-scale bronze work. These findings added to the few known data thanks to the explorations carried out in the 80s in the Sanctuary of the Beata Vergine del Rosaio and to the cistern in via Cesare Battisti, intercepted in 1959. Despite this rather uneven situation, the interest in the archaeological heritage of Vimercate and the territory has never failed, as demonstrated by the setting up, inside the Museum of the Vimercatese territory (MUST), of the "Hall of origins" dedicated to the Roman period. The contribution intends to retrace briefly the known data to try to frame the center (perhaps a vicus of a certain relevance) in light of similar situations identified in northern Italy