The City of Busto Arsizio introduces as a modern industrial and commercial center, therefore deeply characterized from the development of its productive apparatus, that it is difficult to imagine the life, the history and the city landscape in the previous period the industrial revolution.

However a careful walk for the roads of the center and the observation of some of the more ancient past, makes us to understand that this city has a previous identity and traditions the advent of the industry.

In document lack that brings back the date of foundation of Busto Arsizio, it is alone thanks to the discovering of some objects of the roman age late that we can indicate of the origin, probably between the II and IV the century a.C.

Enrico dell'Acqua was one of the protagonists of the industrial development of the city: he exported textile products, citizens of Busto Arsizio, and created modern factories also in the South of America.

Between the end of the 1800's and the first twenty years of the 1900 to the textile industries placed side by side to foundries and mechanical industries.

Busto Arsizio acquired therefore the twofold nature of cotton and mechanical city, situation that assured to them to along fortune and well-being 
Thanks to its infrastructures always in way of improvement and to the optimal administration, already in the 1864 Busto obtained the acknowledgment of 'city'.

In the years after the Second World War, the development resumed and numerous were the initiatives supported financially from the citizens of Busto Arsizio between which the airport of the Malpensa.