15 Sights in Busto Arsizio, Italy (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Busto Arsizio, Italy! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Busto Arsizio. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Busto Arsizio1. Cimitero Monumentale di Busto Arsizio
The monumental cemetery of Busto Arsizio is one of the three current cemeteries of the city, in addition to those of Borsano and Sacconago. It is located at the beginning of Via Favana, a street that takes its name from a farmhouse that is located on its route.
2. Quadreria dell'ospedale di Busto Arsizio
The Picture Gallery of the Busto Arsizio Hospital is a collection of over 100 works of art depicting the benefactors, mostly industrial and canonical, who between 1700 and 1970 helped to finance the works of the city hospital. The picture gallery is located on the first floor of the central pavilion of the hospital.
3. Museo del tessile e della tradizione industriale bustese
The Museum of Textiles and Industry is one of the two museums in Busto Arsizio, Italy, that specialises in spinning and weaving. It was opened in 1997 to house objects, pictures and archive material representing Busto Arsizio's industrial history.
Wikipedia: Museum of Textiles and Industry of Busto Arsizio (EN)
4. Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli Pietro e Paolo
The church of Saints Peter and Paul is the parish church of Borsano, in the district of Busto Arsizio, in the province of Varese and archdiocese of Milan. it is part of the deanery of Busto Arsizio, in the pastoral zone IV of Rho.
Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli Pietro e Paolo (Borsano) (IT)
5. Parco Norma Cossetto
The Norma Cossetto Park is a park in the municipality of Busto Arsizio that owes its name to its location: it is in fact located along the street of the same name, in particular between the church of San Gregorio Magno in Camposanto and the building in Via Ludovico Ariosto. To the east it is bordered by a recently built building of the Paolo Candiani Art School.
6. Chiesa di San Gregorio Magno in Camposanto
The church of San Gregorio Magno in Camposanto is one of the churches that were built in the seventeenth century in Busto Arsizio. It is located in Piazzetta San Gregorio, an extension to the south-west of Piazza Trento e Trieste.
7. Santuario di Santa Maria di Piazza
The Santuario di Santa Maria di Piazza is located in the historic center of Busto Arsizio, Italy, where an earlier church dedicated to the Virgin Mary stood, which in turn had replaced a chapel dating back to the time of Christianization. This Marian shrine was quickly built between 1515 and 1522.
8. Museo di Arte Sacra di San Michele Arcangelo
The Museum of Sacred Art of St. Michael the Archangel is one of the two private museums in the city of Busto Arsizio and is housed in some parish rooms near the thousand-year-old bell tower of the Church of St. Michael the Archangel.
Wikipedia: Museo di arte sacra di San Michele Arcangelo (IT)
9. Chiesa di Madonna in Prato
The church of Madonna in Prato is a religious building of Busto Arsizio, belonging to the parish of San Michele Arcangelo. It is named after the Immaculate Conception and takes the name of Madonna in Prato as it rises where the pool of pool was once, one of the four districts of the village of Busto Arsizio in medieval times.
10. Basilica di San Giovanni Battista
The prepositural collegiate basilica of San Giovanni Battista is a Catholic church in Busto Arsizio, dedicated to one of the patron saints of the city. Like the church of San Michele Arcangelo, this building also stands on the remains of a small Lombard chapel about eight metres wide.
Wikipedia: Church of Saint John the Baptist, Busto Arsizio (EN)
11. Battistero di San Filippo Neri
The Baptistery of San Filippo Neri is a baptismal church of Busto Arsizio designed by Biagio Bellotti next to the Basilica of San Giovanni Battista and built between 1744 and 1751, when it was inaugurated on July 10th.
12. Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli Pietro e Paolo
The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul is one of the two churches located in the center of the Sacconago district, in Busto Arsizio. It is called "new church" in contrast to the older church of the same name located a few tens of meters away.
Wikipedia: Chiesa nuova dei Santi Apostoli Pietro e Paolo (IT)
13. Edicola di San Carlo Borromeo
The aedicule of St. Charles Borromeo is a votive capital located in Busto Arsizio, in Via Giacomo Matteotti, originally called Contrada Pessina, near the Canavesi-Bossi house. It stands where once there was probably a public well and a monastery, now demolished, in a crucial position, as the road was a passage for processions that from the churches of Santa Maria and San Giovanni reached the church of San Michele Arcangelo.
14. Monumento equestre a Enrico dell'Acqua
The monument to Enrico dell'Acqua is an equestrian monument located in Piazza Volontari della Libertà in Busto Arsizio, in front of the entrance to the railway station. It is dedicated to Enrico dell'Acqua (1851-1910), a pioneer in the export of cotton from Italy abroad and a gold medalist from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.
15. Ex sede della Società Elettrica Alto Milanese
The headquarters of the Società Elettrica Alto Milanese is an Art Nouveau building designed by the architect Luigi Carlo Cornelli and located in Busto Arsizio, in the province of Varese, near the Ugo Foscolo park.
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