The historical director Novara, from Milan to the Lake Maggiore, on which the automotive route is carried out - for 39 km, is covered from the SS33 of the Sempione, from the A8 highway Milano-Laghi (inaugurated in 1925) and from the railroad that the opening of the famous Italian-Swiss tunnel of the Sempione (1908) yields of international importance. They are ways of communication that reply the tracing, much uncertain one, of the roman road of the Verbano lead until to the 'statio navium' of Angera, point of exchange for the directed traffics of over alp to the mountain passes of the Lucomagno and of the San Bernardo. The mountain pass of the Sempione it entered in the number of the alpine communications to only leave from the late '200, in function eminently trades tied them to the interests of the from Milan productions for the markets of the Fiandre, the Champagne and the Brabante. About road in the modern sense of the term solo from 1810 is spoken, year in which Napoleone of it it defined the system. In the zone of Legnano, already in remote age, this director was intersected from an other descendant from goes them of the Olona, than passing through Milan along the margin of the Ticino river she headed to Pavia. And is exactly historical contrast between possessions from Milan and 'civitas sepriasca' (it goes them of Olona of was heart), that it at least explains becoming of this territory and whose inheritance is, to administrative level, still enforced, since the provincial border separates Gallarate and Busto Arsizio from Legnano and Milano. The three villages were opposite from the contese laity and to the end the unique matrix gushed from a common productive vocation. In the 800 the zone was characterized as the main river basin of the Italian cotton industry to the premises for the formation were placed therefore of put into effect them conurbation, not still recognized to institutional level but very concrete as dimension is economic it is demographic. The nature of the places, above all their integration and the city character, has made to incline for a visit that, after a route of approach from Milano, It jointly frames the three cities and their outskirtses; in these the artistic-monumental fact in tight sense is made up of little and isolates episodes, while some testimonies of the first industrial takeovers survive.

EXITING MILANO the director Viale Certosa - Corso Sempione until to Piazza Accursio from where she diverges towards to via Gallarate, city feature of SS33 that passes between the major Cemetary and the quarters Gallaratese and San Leonardo on the left. 

PERO mt. 144, citizens 10403, already Cassina del Pero, precedes the industrial zone little, than, for the highest concentration of refining systems and storage of oil products had in years '70 of the XX century the eloquent name of Benzinopoli. In the former Agip area the new center of the International Fair of Milan is risen.

RHO Little before the underpass of the Tangenziale Ovest tears out the slimp road, km 14, to this railroad and this industrial center. mt. 158, citizens 51 136, feud of Visconti di Brignano in 1539; was having the character of ordinator centre in a vaste agricoltural territory, for a big part agricoltural and presided from farmhouses with annexed dwelling places of nobility.

Along via Matteotti the palace called della Torre of Visconti (1670) is erected in the presunt site of the castle.

It follows, on the bottom of the way (in the middle the characteristic Pomè alley with, to the N. 14, the neoclassical Videserta), the prepositural of San Vittore, re-elaborated and widened in 1834-52. On the rear large square they are medieval town hall (1930;  to the inside, frescos of the Fiammenghini and of Daniele Crespi) and the villa Visconti then Banfi, going back for the body centers them to 1669, while the several additions and annexed (but the wood, said the house De Andrea and also sixteenth-century, on to the via Porta Ronca to the N.15) depends on the nineteenth-century restructure.

THE SANCTUARY OF MADONNA DEI MIRACOLI, that lever to the bottom of combining via De Amicis, was undertaken in 1584 on plans of Pellegrino Tibaldi for wanting of Carlo Borromeo. The domed roof was turned in the 1756-70 from Carlo Giuseppe Merlo and Giulio Galliori (while the forehead, shrewed work of sylistic integration, was on purpose in the 1795 from Leopold Pollack. In the inside, to a only nave with honor and frescos, species of Luigi Morgari and Giuseppe Carsana, is works of Giovati Mauro Of the Rovere (first nail head d.), of the Montalto (frescos in the time of the second one, of Camillo Procaccini (nail head of the transetto), of Giovanni Ambrogio Pigino and the Morazzone, of Andrea Lanzani; over the greater altar, fresco (Madonna and dead Christ) of the XVI century and, on the back, San Carlo places the first stone to the sanctuary of Johann Christophorus Storer. Beside the tempio the college of the Oblati rises missionaries, constructed in various resumptions between 1723 and 1912 on designs begin them of Giulio Galliori.

TENUTA DEL CASTELLAZZO, by now surrounded in the peripheral expansion and on the road of Vanzago, the Scheibler villa is part of a complex agricultural of nobility organism of fiveteenth-century origin - of they were first from the Milano's possessor Simonetta - than the cont Felice Scheibler, which it passed in second '800, transformed in restored handled of hunting and a stay.

LAINATE, km 5,5 towards N, altitude of the city 176, inhabitants 24024, than conserve < < sumptuous and to vague wonder the palace of cont the Pirro Visconti Borromeo > > (Galeazze Gualdo), the villa Visconti Borromeo Litta already Weill-Weiss (income on wide Vittorio Veneto;  telephone number 0293598266;  www.comune.lainate.mi.it). Perhaps of the sumptuous dwelling it originates them, than Fabio and Pirro Visconti Borromeo (with the Low participation of Martino) carried to fulfillment in second '500 with the valuable ornament of the garden - rich of 'the Fontanas, not inferior games of water and other delights to whichever place of Italy' - remains the modest body of median factory with porch to twin columns and time of support of the grand staircase fresco (in the entrance hall and two advanced rooms, paintings attributed to the Morazzone).

The celebrated complement of the green was concluded in second '700; in the 1720 the main body (to the left entering in the courtyard of honor), wanted from Giulio Visconti Borromeo, that prevalence of the tile and eclectic molding of the windows introduces singular differences from the compositive formulas of the age.

THE NATURALISTIC OASI OF THE WWF (telephone number 029341761) in the vicinities of Vanzago, inhabitants 7387, that is distant from Rho about km 4, are spread on about 140 hectares of forest with typical essences of the original forest of Po Valley and with a big presence of aquatic birds.

NERVIANO The SS33, in a landscape that leaves very little space to the agricultural dimension by now (the industrial extended transformations began here to start '800) through industrial factories arrive, at the km. 20.3, to the stentorian Torre dell'Acquedotto (Tower of the Aqueduct), operate of regimen of Luigi Capuano (1933) that introduces lived the mt. 175, inhabitants 17291. The consisting historical nucleus, where good examples of seven-eighteenth-century courts remain, protende towards the Olona river, on the left of the SS33; just in river to the river are, numbers 7 and 9 of Piazza Olona, the seventeenth-century palace and villa Lampugnani, and in the successive Piazza Manzoni restored the former convent of Olivetani, founded in the 1469 from Ugolino Crivelli. On the bottom of Annunziata meeting way the unusual building to circular plant of the church dell'Annunziata one is framed, erected from Girolamo Quadrio in the inner second '600 (all', Annunziata attributed to the Borgognone). The prepositural of S. Stefano, reconstructed in the 1841 from Hannibal Rapes, contains burlaps of the Legnanino and Gian Francisco and G.B. Lampugnani.

PARABIAGO The Sempione, bordered on to the left the isolated church of the Vergine Benedetta soul of the going back Colorina to 1666, at the km. 22, in locality San Lorenzo mt. 184, leaves, still to the left, the short distribution that inlet in the center, mt. 184, inhabitants 24463, of shoe industries manufacturer and mechanics, main town until 1574 and from the 1658 feud of the Castles. Along via S. Ambrogio it is placed side by side on the left the complex of the Marchiondi college, already cistercian from 1647, which the church of S. Ambrogio of the Victoria is annexed, reconstructed from 1666 and for which said plans also G.B. Quadrio. The parochial church of the SS. Gervasio and Protasio, it is in the centere in Piazza Giuseppe Maggiolini (the cabinetmaker and inlayer was born in 1738), is attributed to the designs of Pellegrino Tibaldi, with facade added from Giuseppe Piermarini in 1780 (to the inside, two burlaps of Vincenzo Fields and greater altar in wood of beginnings of the XVII century). In via Randacci n. 11 there is the historical Museum Carla Musazzi. To the south periphery, on the road for Nerviano, there is the church of the Madonna d'Olsa, dictates also church of 'Il Dio Sa', erected in the first half of the '600 in a pre-existent place of rustic nail head of which conserve a triptych of the '500. The Crespi Bonsai Museum is found in locality San Lorenzo.

BUSTO GAROLFO, from km. 5 to 0, was a possession of the Ambrosiani canons on the border line between the territory of Milano and Seprio. Important place for the activity of the Humiliates, altitude mt. 180, inhabitants 12021 (10790), is segnalated for the villas of nobility for instance the Rescalli and then Villoresi, the comunicated with the public square for a prospective axis framing the valuable portal (start of the XVII century).

SAN VITTORE OLONA mt. 197, inhabitants 7876, is the successive step, km 24.2, from the SS33; The church of S. Stefano al Lazzaretto, in the cemetery, going back the 1305 and conserve a fresco and others of the 1487 of Gian Giacomo Lampugnani. Important testimonies of the preindustrial phase are the mills, feeded from Olona river, that are documented from the 1043 and that, in a census executed in the 1722 they turned out more than 60; two still conserve the machinery for the mechanical working and apparatuses: the Montoli flour mill, on the right along the road for Canegrate little before the bridge on the river (on the income door, painting walls them of Turri Favourite), and the flour mill Wonder already Melzi Salazar (1833) to the bottom of via XXIV Maggio.

CANEGRATE mt. 193, inhabitants 11950, less than 2 km at South-West, it has given to the name to a particular cultural shape of the age of the Bronze (XIII century a.C.), of transalpine origin, that is characterized from recoveries legacies to the cremation of the defunct and from the deposition of ashes in urns with equipment of crews. Parochial of S. Maria Assunta (Giovanni Maggio, 1938) characterizes itself for the monumental emphasis.

LEGNANO, BUSTO ARSIZIO, GALLARATE

To the inside of the lergest Lombardic city-region, the formation of this pole is the most concrete demonstration than an historical process of urbanization - complementary to Milan and employee from the start of the industrial revolution in the first half of the XIX century in the cotton field with the punctual coincidence of factors climatic and economic. Although today they are in action evolutionary processes that put the third sector's in a directional substitution of the industrial areas in favour of residences and activities, lingers a rooted manifacturing image is in the rests of the complexes abandoned in the inheritance that such original vocation has left in most modern and advances productive systems, in the equipments, in the civil equipment, the enviornment and the life of the three of cities. City entities that conserve also own identity, filtered from various destinations (Gallarate already administrative center, Busto Arsizio center of services and pre-eminent entrepreneurial functions and financial institutions, industrial Legnano more and more turned towards Milan) and ordinator poles around the which they turn equally imprinted centers satellite from commissioned industrialization (in so far as could be entrusted to Gallarate a prominence on the centers of the Arno and on part of those of the Ticino's heathland, to Busto Arsizio on the low part of Olona goes them and on the crown of the townships, to Legnano on the centers that, already meets along the road of the Sempione, knits with the area Milan Subway the problems of the three cities, exceed those to you of the loss of importance of the field weave them (years ' 50 and ' 60 of century XX), there are legacies to the deindustrialization - also the model 'of the developed diffuse workshop' in years '70 demonstrates signs of yielding - and to the reconversion of the tertiary;  to territorial level, then, the nodes of the ecological reorganization pose again with force (the pollution of the Olona touch perceptible levels to a simple look), of the improvement of the infrastructural nets with the new intercontinental airport of the Malpensa, of the reorganization of the system of the services.

LEGNANO Of the cities mt. 202, inhabitants 54854, in which the Sempione enters to the km 25,5, edition 1967 of guide 'Milan e Laghi' of the Touring Italian Club said that it was 'one of the industrial centers more important of the Lombardy for the spinning and the webbing of the cotton and the rayon and for iron and steel works, mechanical, chemical, electrical workers, etc...'.  Image of the second half of that decade, when the first business disbandings in the field already set offed weave them. Today also the mechanical field - electromechanical species - is in crisis and the problem of the reconversion of the greater industrial former areas is introduced every more pressing day, with decisions that concern the dimension of the participation, to one redefinition of all city context.

DELLA BATTAGLIA DI LEGNANO, the 29 May 1176 the Township contrasted the Lombardic ones to the imperial alignment and whose memory today persists all with the anniversary celebration of the Festival of the Carroccio, (were its political consequences to assume importance, since with Victoria of Legnano and the successive peace of Costanza (1183) acknowledged not only the supremacy of Milan on the antagonist cities (Como) and on the rural peasantries (species on the fierce antagonist Seprio), but also its increased economic role and the commercial with the control of the communication ways towards the central Alps.

FOR THE IMPETUOUS ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION begun in the XIX and relative to the entire area of the Olona, the conditions of one more advanced productive organization were placed once exceeded the contrast between land owners, supporters of an economy founded on the progresses of agriculture, and more 'moderns' the entrepreneurs who saw just in the weakness of agriculture the reason and the force of one alternative development. The first spinnings, like pure the units of bleaching and drycleaning, were settled down along the Olona, already preferential place of ancient crowds and flour mills, in order to use of waters like motive power; you weave ture instead more had development in opened zones, heathland or, still, the diffuse and capillary shape of the simple dwellings peasants: the founded complex imposing in the 1820 from Costanzo Cantoni had as an example of the webbing to Gallarate and other subsidiary factories along the Olona to Castellanza and Legnano (1828); between the premonitory ones the factory of Busto Arsizio of 1815 goes also goes of cited Giuseppe Antonio Crespi (its, then transformed in the important cotton factory Veneto-Lombardic Crespi) and Andrea Ponti (the first one to introduce around Gallarate a mechanical factories of spinning). In 1857 along it goes it them of the Olona between Busto Arsizio and Gallarate 18 spinnings for a fused total of 72782 were available, which they attended 2443 persons. With the introduction of the vapor machine and with the application of the electric power, the spread of the systems and the subsidiary units of working interested the entire territory, species the zones of boarder to the railroads and the road of the Sempione. To the restructure of the first complexes (with the vertical integration spinning-webbing) and to one more wide vision than territorial organization dedicated in the second '800 the so-called captains of industry, ereds of the original pioneering oligarchy; to they iron-tram is assigned to the creation of a efficient net, in independent himself, because not based on tending Milan and above all to increase the mobility of the force-job; then the foundation of institutes of requalification of the workers, with socialn providences and subsidies to favor of the families laborers; finally the recovery, thanks to the opening of channels (the Villoresi) and to the start of reclamation works in heathlands, more elevates productive levels in agriculture like possible valve of vent in the case (concretely taken place to horse between '800 and '900) of occupational surplus. Giovanni Graziani annotated, in 1927, than pingui the centers of the plague, embellished from the villas of the magnates of the industries, swarm houses modern laborers, where the associations, the cooperatives between the laborers, supported from institutes of social security and credit, from works of public beneficence and the good social politics of the town halls, give test of how much can make the spirit of human solidarity between civil people. The fall of the weaving sector (beginnings years '60 of the XX century) for the loss of the European markets did not involve an acute occupational crisis thanks to the risen contemporary of the mechanical field: in the census of 1951, with 723 local units and assigned 24750 (of which the still half absorbed in weaving), Legnano figure still like the second industrial city of the Lombardy, after Sesto Saint Giovanni, considering the relationship between population and occupied. In 1961 the percentage of the attache's to the weaving comes down to 39%; in 1971 to the 25,5% (that one of the mechanical field knows them to 60%); in 1981 to the 12% (and that one of the mechanic come down to 39% for effect of the progressive growth of the tertiary sector).

PIAZZA S. MAGNO, center of the city, takes the name from the basilica of S. Magno, of Bramante's inspiration, constructed in the 1504-1513 (bell tower is of 1752) in substitution of the Romanesque church of S. Salvatore. It carried of the Scholarly bronze facades are of Franc (1976).

THE INSIDE The Greek cross, overflowed from octagonal tibur, it is work of Gian Giacomo Lampugnani, which frescoes are painted on the central wall of entrance hall (1517), first nail head on the left (1517) and on some pillars; to the wall of bottom of the nail head greater, polyptych (Madonna with the Child, five musicians angels and known; in the eardrum, eternal Father; in the platform, nine scenes of the life of Jesus, monocrome) of Bernardino Lanino (1523) within one rich frame; of Bernardino Lanino it is the decoration of sidewalls (1560-64) representing seven scenes of the life of Jesus and Maria, in which (Dispute to the temple) is the probable self-portrait of the artist. In the nail head there is on the left, polyptych attributed to Giampietrino (1490 centers).

ALONG CORSO MAGENTA The road is detached from the public square in South direction and nearly to the beginning there is on the left the archiepiscopal former Court (the income to arc and reliefs it is of the XXIII century), with the palaces of Lion from Perego and of Visconti, radically modified in their original structure in some jobs of restructure, to fine Palace Lion from Perego, recently recovered, an important is from 1999 espositivo center. The cross-sectional one via Giulini immette to left in the way which the from name church of S. Ambrogio rebuilt under Federico Borromeo (1600-1613) and with, to the inside, a large one fresco (Escape of S. Ambrogio from Milan of G.B. and Gian Francesco Lampugnani, Continuing for the contiguous one via Banfi is reached in Piazza Achilli, where to numbers 5-9 it is the emaciated quarter delle Grazie planned in the 1939 from group BBPR for the workers of the Cantoni cotton factory. To the bottom of Magenta course, to right the church of S. Maria delle Grazie, of 1650 but with facade rifared in 1930 (to the sidewalls of the greater altar two burlaps of the Legnanino). Facing the wide large square ago from income, beyond the street found one, to the park that encloses the Castle, erected around the 1250 from Oddone Visconti: the system puts into effect them drift from the widening of 1445, that it equipped the manufactured of the Visconti of one encircled of curtains with ditch, four towers angle irons and two intermediate, let alone of one risen of rivellino with drawbridge and little bridge...

TOWARD CORSO SEMPIONE From piazza S. Magno coast the left flank of the Basilica for via Luini, marked in its turn to the left from Town Hall (1908) on the continuation (via Matteotti) there are on the left the villa Juker (1906) and little beyond, to the right, the two bridges in concrete of eclectic stamp only traces survivors of the cotton mill Dell'Acqua, founded in 1871. Continue until ending up on Sempione course, city feature of the homonymous: towards right the composed forehead of the church of the Vergine Benedetta (1641), attributed to Francesco Ricchino Maria, and the neomedieval mansion of accomodation right Erasmo (1925) with the contiguous containing Nail head a triptych of the XVI century perhaps entitled to Cristoforo Lampugnani. Modern is also the civil hospital of Legnano, whose original pavilions were you execute yourself on plan of 1904 of Luigi Broggi.

CORSO ITALIA that he intercrosses himself following from piazza S. Magno a first feature of Garibaldi course, historical director of expansion to the west is one.  Covering of the feature of the left he places side by side himself, on the right, the 'Monumento ai Caduti del Lavoro', inaugurated in 1983 on situated of the Castellaccio (the main body of the printing office of the De Angeli), and on left the building complex that the palace for offices and rendered-denze (Luigi precedes Dominioni Caccia, 1963), also on former area De Angeli; on the bottom finally, the monument of 'Battaglia di Legnano of Enrico Butti' (1900 is caught up), to right of which the red small houses of the quarter send back to the industrial past.

CORSO GARIBALDI it acquires value after the crossing with corso Italia, with traditional bottoms show building and shrewed inert modern minds. Last the church of S. Domenico (1907), catches up, to n° 225, the civic Museum Guido Sutermeier (telephone number 0331543005; www.legnano.org), prepared in one mansion erected in 1928 with the ruins of the manor house of Lampugnani (sec XV); it places side by side to finds of civility the Canegrate and Golasecca, etrurian, Roman (silver goblet, III century, representing the myth of the goddess Cibele) burlaps of Gaetano Previatii, furnitures of the XV-XVII century and one numismatic collection.

THE  ‘VARESINA’ CASTELLANZA mt. 216, inhabitants 14022, are immediately contiguous, to the north, the 'milanese' Legnano. The main center of the conurbation of the Olona is risen from the progressive aggregation of two rural villages uniforms from the course of the river: Castegnate, in left Olona, already possession from the 1043 of the monastery of S. Dionigi and garrison of the ford of the road that went back the valley; Castellanza, on the right of the Olona, in its turn uniform in two nucleus between which it was interposed the parochial of S. Giulio, increased to continuation of the opening of the road of the Sempione (puts into effect corso Matteotti) that it made some attended mail station. The cotton mill of Castellanza, on the valley side of corso Matteotti, lightly discost from the customary types to reason of the finish of the plaster. The Town hall, in piazza Della Libertà, is located in the neoclassical villa Carminati Brambilla, then erected on designs (1789) of Leopold Pollack. To the bottom of via Gerenzano, beyond the underpass of the highway, there is the center of the Museo Pagani (telephone number 0331503113;  www.artigianando.it/museo-pagani), instituted in the 1956 from the foundation promoted from the sculptor and painter Enzo Pagani, that it exposes in a garden and a covered pavilion works of sculpture, painting and mosaics of contemporary artists.

BUSTO ARSIZIO. immediately to the west of Legnano and Castellanza, via Luigi Borri inlet, at the km 32, in greater and the most representative one of three cities mt. 226, inhabitants 78445, that compose the conurbation of the Olona.

THE ROMAN ORIGIN OF THE VILLAGE it has been proved from some finds and the presumed reconstruction of the orthogonal aces head to the sanctuary of S. Maria di Piazza while in medieval age its affection to Milan depended on the some possessions of the archiepiscopal curia.

The Visconti held it with the title it of county until to 1573; then it was yielded to the Marliani (than under Carl Borromeo they obtained the transfer of the center), to the Gambarana and the Cicogna. Documents of the XIV century testimony of the intraprendence of merchants of Busto Arsizio in the commerce and the confidence to local craftsmen of conciarie workings, to which joined from the '500 the production of the iron thread.

On dynamics of the industrial development in modern age they prevailed here, the webbings regarding the spinnings, with consequent minor dimension of the enterprises and greater territorial spread (to aim '800 of were present 28, employing 2000 laborers); bustocchi they were the more industrial enterprising of weaving of the entire valley, between which it detaches Enrico Dell'Acqua. The industrial development, the takeover of labor for great immigrated part, the construction of the railway lines for Novara and the Sempione has favorite the expansion of the built up one that until to aim '800 bulwark goverflow little from the town-walls. In the years after the Second World War the city, keeping the already composed industrial belt, has caught up towards south the fractions of Borsano and Sacconago, while in the other directions is knit to the near townships; not indifferent operations of e new building of the historical center, long species via Milan and around piazza Garibaldi where the greater activities of the tertiary are concentrated, leaving elsewhere the degraded presence of building of ancient stamp, to an ambient not organic between modernity and conservation.

THE SANCTUARY OF S. MARIA DI PIAZZA saying also of the Madonna Dell'Aiuto from the sixteenth-century statue on wood that represents while in firm action with the hand the flagellum of the plague, is, in piazza S. Maria, a simple one and harmonious construction of the Renaissance like central plant, erected in the 1517-27 (Tommaso Rodari, and perhaps, Antonio Lonati), covered tibur to saddleback raised with little lantern. The bell tower is one old civic, adapted and high tower with modulations of stylistyc mimesys in the 1873-77 from Carlo Maciachini who also waits to the restoration of the entire complex of the church.

THE INSIDE majestic octagonal cupule introduces one over a drum to containing niches 32 statues in wood of Fabrizio de' Magistris (1602). The decoration to the fresco is do by Gianpietro Crespi (time of the cupule, 1531), Raffaele Crespi (Adoration of the Magi and  of the shepherds on the walls to sides of the greater altar, 1542). To the left wall, Assunzione and known, great polypthyc of Gaudenzio Ferrari (1539); in the niches angle irons, the frescoes (SS. Lazzaro, Marcella and Marta) of Bernardino Luini from the destroyed of Milan church of S. Marta. To the altar to the left of the Presbiterio Madonna with the Child and it knows you of Giovanni Paolo mazzo(1571). There are also tables of XV - XVI century.

S. MICHELE ARCANGELO, on via Matteotti that has beginning from the public square and that woven conserve of building the seven nineteenth-century one, it is already Romanesque church that was widened and re-handled in successive ages: the forehead is of aim '700, the bell tower, elevated in 1559, is constituted in the inferior part of the castle; to the first altar on the right, Deposition of the late '400. In the contiguous parochial premises to the building the Museum of sacred Art S. Michele Archangel. On the flank south of the church the Little Temple - Ossuary designed from Biagio is leaned Make-ups, artist from Busto Arsizio that present in the contiguous church of the Madonna in Prato (XVII - XVIII century).

To the north of via Matteotti, in via Time, the Museum has center of Wearing and of the industrial Tradition

In the near piazza Vittorio Emanuele II the Civic collections of art of Palazzo Cicogna are found, accommodated in the homonimous building of the 1700.

THE BASILICA OF S. GIOVANNI BATTISTA, on the homonimous public square and the short via S.Antonio connects to the previous one, it was rifared from the 1609 (forehead is of 1615-18; the the cupule of the 1635), on a pre-existent Romanesque (it remains the bell tower, built in 1418), based on the plan of Francesco Maria Ricchino. To the skillful flank they are leans the Little Temple - Ossuary (end of the XVII century) and the monument to the blassed Giuliana (1782). The inside to three is naves, with transept, cupulre and deep chorus placed side by side from two small rectangular nails head; to the first altar to the right, S. Carlo del Cerano; under the catering of the altar to the right of the greater one. Dead Christ of Daniele Crespi, of which the Saint overhanging is pure Giovanni Battista. The the annexed Library capitular, tidy in the 1495 from Bernardino Crespi, conserve also a precious book of the IX century.

VIA MILANO from piazza S. Giovanni Battista, it is encrossed via Fratelli d'Italia, where the Town hall, already hospital, was widened during the 800 and in 1933 on a primitive nucleus of 1826 approximately. Endured beyond via Milano it intersects via Duca of Aosta, with the shoe factory Borri that reassumes the productive image of the city and approaches cooked and iron. Now on via XX Settembre, in the zone of the expansion of the '900, a series of little villas relating to the or the great flowers is an example the villa Leone (Silvio Gambini, 1910). In the neighbor via Costa to the number 23 the Fondazione Bandera has center for the Art.

GALLARATE The SS 33 continues through frange peripheral until, at the km 39, the main city of the province under the domination the Austrian - and of one of the five districts in which the province of Milan (to that one of Varese was uniform in postunitary period passed in 1927). Today it is city mt. 238, inhabitants 48472, also in phase of transformation after to have crossed all the industrialization, stimulated here from the premature entrepreneurial address of the greater local families (Ponti, Cantoni, Maino, Macchi etc).

THE HISTORICAL AFFAIR Suffix of Celts and the various recoveries (urns of the type of the Golasecca) can make to incline for a preroman foundation, probably insubre ('call-air ', gravel earth), but about a 'native place ET fundo Galerate' it is spoken for before the time in the 974. The historical center, derived from the fortified medieval village, yes collects in elliptic shape in left of the Arno, torrent that was often cause of damages to the city for the frequent floodings. The From Milan ones got hold in 1292 of the village, than after the destruction of Castelseprio became center of the Capitano and the Vicario of the Seprio. The industrial expansion of Gallarate assumed like preferential lines the axis of the Sempione and that one of the road Novara Varese, starting towards the north the welding with the other centers of the valley of the Arno or towards the south with the near town of Samarate.

THE BASILICA  OF S. MARIA ASSUNTA, in the central piazza della Libertà that occupies of the presumed village insubre and the medieval village, was constructed in the 1856-60 on design of Giacomo Muro, with forehead of Camillo Boito and to the left to the ancient bell tower (XV century); in the immense inside, to one nave with great cupule, decorated from Luigi Cavenaghi, to the right of the greater altar (with sculptures of Odoardo Tabacchi), Sposalizio della Vergine di Morazzone (1620), to S. Natività della Vergine of Daniele Crespi;  in the first nail head to the left, Assunzione della Vergine, group of marm of Giuseppe Rusnati. Annexed to the basilica there is the Museum of sacred Art (telephone number 0331793R11), instituted in 1954 and containing painted (between which Immaculate with Carlo and Francesco Nuvolone), furnish and objects of the church of several ages.

THE CORSO ITALIA the house of the Faietto has been reconstructed in 1940, with porch  that during the ancient regimen it was center of the feudal police3 court and the Committee of the Seprio. Beyond largo Camussi (Monumento ai Caduti della Resistenza of Arnaldo Tomato) in via Cavour the number 4 there is the palace of the Broletto (XVII century). The escape from the perimeter of the old village is in piazza S. Lorenzo, with the former house of the Balilla di Paolo Mezzanotte (1930). From three roads are detached here: endured on the right in via Cantoni, to whose bottom shows the body of access of civil Hospital (1869-74), mature application of the historical language of Camillo Boito (you notice chromaticism given from the brick and from parged of crock and the terraces of the capstone); on the prosecution of via Cavour, via Milano it places side by side to the number 21 the palace of the Police Court and the Civic Gallery of modern Art (telephone number 0331791266;  www.comune.gallarate.va.it), risen in in 1966 with the works donated from the local Painting Prize 'Citta' di Gallarate' (1950);  the 1429 works are of Italian artists uniforms for the respective tendencies and space today from 1930. In 2003 and be acquired the archives of mail art of master Gino Gini.

SAN PIETRO. Between piazza della Libertà and piazza Garibaldi it rises, placed side by side from low buildings, this Romanesque church (XXII century), from:  remarkable aerial friezeof light bows interlaced that also runs along the flanks; the apse, semicircular, was rifared during the restorations of 1897-1907. To the shoulders of the cult place piazza Garibaldi is opened, with to the center the monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi di Francesco Gonfalonieri (1885); between the buildings that enclose it they are the former house of Fascio (Giulio Minoletti, 1936) the seventeenth-century Rosnati villa. Feeding via S. Francesco it is gone in piazza del Rinascimento, where they rise the church of S. Francesco (Gaetano Moretti, 1919) and the 'Monumento ai Caduti' of Enrico Butti.

THE MUSEUM OF THE STUDIES SOCIETY OF GALLARATE PATRI (telephone number 0331-795092), that it is caught up continuing for short feature in via Ronchetti and having to the right in via of the Ancient Village, occupies, to the number 4, little cloister of the S. Francesco, already part of a convent of the '200, restored in 1911;  instituted in 1925, conserve objects of digging from the necropolis preroman of several Golasecca and preroman tombs and roman of Gallarate, Cassano Magnago and outskirtses, relics of local history, paintings (Madonna with the Child and knowed of Giulio Raibolini; Creazione di Eva, sketch monochromium of the Cerano;  burlaps of Carlo Cane, Alessandro Magnasco, Giuseppe De Albertis) and sculptures. The visit was concluded with the gallery of epigraphs.

THE SUBURBS OF CRENNA AND CEDRATE AND THE TOWNSHIP OF CASSANO MAGNAGO mt., 261, inhabitants 20767 supports the historical nucleus on the ridge of first hills Myths delimits the valley of the Arno; such orographic situation favored functions of military garrison in territories where there is the base of the feudal possessions of the Visconti.