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BUSTO ARSIZIO

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 877 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUSTO ARSIZIO  , a

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

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