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BUSTO ARSIZIO , a See also: town of See also: Lombardy, See also: Italy, in the province of Milan, 21 M
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N.W. by See also: rail from the town of Milan
.
Pop
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(1901) 19,673
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It contains a See also: fine domed See also: church, S
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Maria di Piazza, built in 1517 after the designs of
See also: Bramante: the picture over the high altar is one of Gaudenzio Ferrari's best See also: works
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The church of S
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Giovanni Battista is a See also: good See also: baroque edifice of 1617; by it stands a fine 13th-century campanile
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Busto Arsizio is an active manufacturing town, the See also: cotton factories being
especially important
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It is a railway junction for See also: Novara and Seregno
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