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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 See also:

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

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