GALLARATE IN THE CENTURIES 

From the prehistory to the Visconti age
Mail to the North-western limit of the high-from Milan and encircled zone from the green morainic hill amphitheater, Gallarate was sin from prehistory (2 millenium a.C.) epicenter of an immense inhabited territory, like subsequently in the Age of bronze (XIII century b.C.) and of iron (IX-IV century b.C.), whose last centuries coincide with the celtic age. Many (in it knows them of the Museum of the Gallaratese Society Patri Studies, as to Castello Sforzesco of Milan and in other qualified collections) are the archaeological testimonies of such periods in the plaga, for example the rests of the Lagozza and Lagozzetta di Besnate, tombs of the culture of the Golasecca in the heathland of the Malpensa and the others vestigia recovered in several localities, comprised the central piazza Ponti.
The roman conquest of the Gallia Cisalpina leaves remarkable documentation in 'vicus', already risen to many importance. With the frank domination, a castle to the top of the involute fortified city nucleus rose, adjacent to puts into effect the Basilica of S. Maria Assunta (of it remains memory in the name of via Postcastello). The church, obviously like religious entity and not like much posterior architectonic structure, is cited like Head of the Pieve in one parchment of the 974, reigning Ottone II; the document that conserve to the Archives of State of Milan, is most ancient in which it reruns the Gallarate name. Destroyed to Castelseprio to Ottone work Visconti (1287), the city became important in the Seprio, great and important peasantry. Gallarate begins in those years a prestigious economic and commercial increase, than it accompanies it for the Visconti-Sforza age until to the beginnings, two centuries after, of the French dominion.
The documents of the archives of the period characterize Gallarate like pole of changes in the Italian and foreign markets for the traffics of cloth, drappe, cottons and linen. Represented the commercial and aristocratic rank from families like the Rosnati, Reina, Masera, Palazzi, Macchi, Curioni, Mari, Guenzati, etc asserts i its successes in one productive field that marks the industrial increasing until to the most recent advent of the third sector.

The Foreign dominion and the Renaissance
Gallarate, already theatre of brutal fights between Visconti and Torriani (if of it Fat Visconti 'of Tommaso speaks in the popular historical novel' Mark) loses its autonomy with the French and Spanish dominion (XVI-XVIII centuries) and is territory of celebrates Italian families (Bentivoglio, Caracciolo, Pallavicino, Visconti, Castelbarco), does not abdicate but to the primary role in the economy of the high Milan, a lot that in 1786 Giuseppe II designates Gallarate to most important city of immense Austrian Province.
With the advent of Napoleone, first of all between we an illuminated bourgeoisie that it knows to conjugate the new ideas of Freedom with one important industrial revolution, of which the Ponti are protagonists the Villages and the Cantoni. Most important city of the 23th District of the Department of the Olona, Gallarate participates with Ottavio Rosnati to the Treaty of Lion of 1802. After the Restoration, sanctioned from the Conference of Vienna, remarkable they were the ferments of freedom in Gallarate, animated from patriots like Luigi Villages and Filippo Guenzati (emprisoned the Spielberg).
Giuseppe and Pompeo Castelli, holders of that 'pharmacy of the Renaissance', hour Dahò, meeting of the free spirits, where he wants the tradition that Gerolamo Rovetta has acclimatized its 'Romanticismo'.

The City of the hundred Chimneys 
We fly over on other episodes that attest the remarkable contribution of the city to the campaigns for independence. We cannot but forget the sacrifice of blood offered from our young people during the two world wars, neither the holocaust of how many, for freedom love, fell under the blows of the repression and in the nazi extermination camps. Of Enrico Butti 1924, and that one to the Resistance in Wide Camussi Arnaldo are respective memory the Monument to the Fallen in Renaissance Public square (Tomato, 1980).
Other remarkable element in the recent history of the Gallaratese is the development given in our wood to the aeronautical industry sin from 1910 with the Ing.Gianni Caproni and pilots, which Gustavo Moreno and Oronzo Andreani.The gallarate ones, to the age of stamped mongolfiers from the envies 'near' like 'brüsabalun' for the tension for the flight, they very had way to redeem itself!
Also through the alternate things of the history, Gallarate, which it came conferred the title it of City with law 19.12.1860 to company of Prince Eugene di Savoia-Carignano, came upgrading its role of industrial center thanks to the business thinking of men of the hardening of Alessandro Maino, Cesare Macchi, Pietro Bellora, Carlo Borgomaneri, Giuseppe Calderara in field weaves them and Cesare Galdabini in the mechanical industry and the effective collaboration, also marked from normal social tensions, of one intelligent and laborious labor. Gallarate was insomma, to horse of the new century and until to recent years, the 'Manchester of Italy', 'the city of the one hundred chimneys' of which some they remain, with the old factories from the vague one connote to you 'liberty' transformed in handicraft centers, to testimony of industrial archaeology in one voted society to more impersonal roles.