The palace of the Broletto 
The Broletto (word that in the past designated everywhere the town hall) rises on an area used end from the half of the '200 after the convent of San Michele, built up from the Order of Humiliates. After the destroying of the order (1570), consequent one to the attack of the Flour to San Carlo Borromeo, the convent accommodated other religious (Benedictine nuns and Agostiniane, Franciscan friars). Under Napoleone, the building the character of convent for being used after publics offices lost, is pure with various functions in the time. From 1859 to 1861, collapsed the tower already bell tower of the church, it came restructured on plan of architect Leone Savoia; of the ancient convent porch covered from times to cruise remains the wide courtyard with in resting on columns in granite. The Town hall accommodated until 1929, then transferred in the palace of via Greens, (constructed in 1907 like center of the Under-prefecture) and now called Palace Borghi, from the name of the owner family in origin of the area and, until years 60 the jails, the commissariat of P.S., the Civic Library.
To the offices administrated remained if they are added some in 1995, after the widening of the same Broletto towards wide Camussi, several others. The local sources give prominence, more than to the architectonic values of the complex, to the public functions exercise (center of surroundings, Under-prefecture, etc), nearly to claim responsability of the city a primary and irrenounceable role on the territory.

The Spreader or 'Cruzeta'  
Over the modest artistic value, is the symbol of the city, beloved to Gallarate and the important part of the local history.
The column erge on a pedestal and has been over from a capitel with double quantity simulacre of the Vergine of the Pilar, which cross in iron surpasses one. Like law (unfortunately, hour, a lot to hard work) on a side of the base, made it to erect in 1694, (in substitution of one more lowland) Cesare Visconti of Milano, conte of Gallarate in that age under the Spanish domination.
The spreader endured varies movements, also in the slid century, always in the within of piazza Maggiore, then Vittorio Emanulele II and now Freedom. Us it seems interesting, nearly prophetical, the phrase on purpose on the side of the base towards via Mazzini: 'the posteri judge the Author, the thing, the aim, the way, the age'.

The center of the Patri Studies  
The ancient convent of San Francesco as a result of the come one of Frati Minori (1234), can be defined, also in the limited extension survivor, the historical building that better represents the ancient village cited on the maps of the age like center of an important Franciscan community. In the 1245 work already very it was started and it comprised, beyond to the church (more to south), the mystic 'little cloister', as familiarly it is called from the Gallarate ones. The convent endured several things in the course of the fights between French and Spanish. In the 1718 one extended until the former Pasquirolo (part of actual piazza Renaissance). In 1926, the Little Cloister came donated from Enrico Macchi to the Society of the Patri Studies, risen in 1896, which was moved, taking care itself cleverly of the conservation and the restoration of the building, after to have concurred the demolition of the church (1932), by now important one for the incurie of the previous governments and private owners.
In that it remains of the ancient complex has center today the History Museum and Art, opened to the public one from 1961. To the flat land the archaeological material of prehistorycal age (Lagozza di Besnate is collected, Civilization of Golasecca), Gaulish, Etruscan, Romanesque and longobards. To the Association of Bologna, the Picture-gallery with paintings of the XVII and XVIII centuries has center the XIX century. Between the present artists we remember Giacomo Rabolini said the Francia, Jacopo Zucchi, Giovanni Battista Crespi said the Cerano, Tanzio from Varallo, Niccolò Pisano, Daniele Crespi, Giacomo Sementi, Carlo Cane, Giuseppe de Albertis, Giuseppe Bossi, Adolfo Wildt, Renzo Columbo, etc.

The Aloisianum

After several peregrinations for Italy the Aloisianum, risen in 1839 like seminary of the Jesuit aspirants dedicated to San Luigi Gonzaga, could be settled down to the periphery of Gallarate in 1936, thanks to the generous donation of countess Rosa Piantanida Ottolini Viols. In 1937 it the faculty was recognized to confer the academic degrees in philosophy. From 1970 it is not more university center but it remains primary center of several cultural activities under aspects: the Library, with hundred of thousands of witnesses, accessible to the students; the monumental 'Index Thomisticus', elaborated from father Roberto Busa, 1946 to 1980; the anniversaries Philosophical Conventions, that they have given life to an authentic movement of universal thought of capacity; the Power of attorney of the Missions; the I.R.I.S., directed in its several social and artistic sections from father Alfredo Imperatori. The Aloisianum opens moreover to all its cultural doors for scientific and technical conventions, gatherings, manifestations, extensions, concerts. Contiguous to the university complex, it rises from 1959, (on a natural lookout), the church of the Sacro Cuore, modern temple with a Via Crucis of Francesco Messina, works of the Gesuita Fratel Venzo, Bianchi, Kaufmann and others.