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Gall rate
coat of arms
Gallarate (Italy)
Gall rate
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Varese  (VA)
Coordinates 45 ° 40 '  N , 8 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 39 '51 "  N , 8 ° 47' 29"  E
height 238  m slm
surface 20.97 km²
Residents 53,934 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 2,572 inhabitants / km²
Factions Arnate, Cajello, Cascinetta, Cedrate, Crenna , Madonna in Campagna, Moriggia, Ronchi, Sciarè
Post Code 21013
prefix 0331
ISTAT number 012070
Popular name gallaratesi
Patron saint Christophorus ( July 25th )
Website Gall rate
Santa Maria Assunta Gallarate 1.jpg
Gallarate municipality in the province of Varese
Giessbach Arno (Arnetta)

Gallarate is an Italian commune ( comune ) in the province of Varese in the Lombardy region .

geography

Gallarate is 19 kilometers south of Varese . The Giessbach Arno, also known as the Arnetta , flows through the village . The municipality covered an area of ​​20.97  km² . Gallarate includes the districts Arnate , Cajello , Cascinetta , Cedrate , Crenna , Madonna in Campagna , Moriggia , Ronchi and Sciarè . The neighboring municipalities are Arsago Seprio , Besnate , Busto Arsizio , Cardano al Campo , Casorate Sempione , Cassano Magnago , Cavaria con Premezzo and Samarate .

The community has a motorway connection to the A8 . The Milan Malpensa Airport is about five kilometers west of the city.

The residents work in industry and at the nearby Milan Malpensa Airport.

history

Under Roman rule, Gallarate became part of the province of Gallia cisalpina . From Gallarate one passed the old consular road Via Severiana Augusta , which connected Milan with Verbano on Lake Maggiore . From an administrative point of view, the municipality was part of the Regio XI Transpadana . From Galleratum, its Latin name, the Gallaratesestraße, a Roman road that connected Novaria (modern Novara ) with Comum ( Como ), led to Sibrium ( Castelseprio ).

In 974 there was talk of a loco et fundo gallery . When Bishop Ottone Visconti destroyed Castelseprio in 1287, Gallarate became the seat of the captain and the deputy of Seprio when the Milanese took possession of the village in 1292. Gallarate took advantage of this and turned into a place with market rights. The city already had this vocation during the Sforza period. The old town was built in an elliptical shape to the left of the Arno River.

In the 16th to 18th centuries, Gallarate and the entire Duchy of Milan were under French and then Spanish rule. It became a feudal lordship and a county with the Grandat of Spain that was passed on to several noble families. It remained that way until the abolition of feudalism in 1797 (families: Bentivoglio, Caracciolo, Pallavicino, Altemps, Visconti and Castelbarco). Between 1786 and 1787 Gallarate was the capital of one of the provinces of Austrian Lombardy.

In December 1926, the fascist government decided to create the new province of Varese, and the Gallarate district, which also included municipalities with some demographic importance such as Busto Arsizio , Legnano , Saronno and Rho , was divided between the new province and the province of Milan .

population

Population development
year 1861 1881 1901 1921 1951 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011 2016 2017 2018
Residents 9658 11297 15398 22398 29728 43685 47259 44977 46361 50456 53145 53595 53425

Attractions

  • Museo della Collegiata
  • Museo della Società per gli Studi Patri

Sacred buildings

  • Sacro Cuore Church (1959) at the Istituto Aloisianum of the Jesuits
  • Romanesque church of San Pietro (11th century)
  • Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta (1856)
  • Church of Sant'Antonio abate
  • Sanctuary of the Madonna in Campagna
  • Church of San Zenone in the district of Crenna
  • Church of Santi Nazaro e Celso in the district of Arnate
  • San Rocco Church
  • San Francesco Church
  • Church of San Eusebio Vescovo in the district of Cajello
  • San Alessandro Church in the Cascinetta district
  • San Paolo Church in the Sciaré district
  • Church of Madonna della Speranza in the Ronchi district
  • Church of San Giorgio in the district of Cedrate
  • San Giuseppe Lavoratore Church
  • Former Convent of San Francesco (now a museum).

  • San Pietro Church

  • San Francesco Church

  • San Rocco Church

  • Church of Sant'Antonio abate

  • San Zenone Church

Mario Delpini

Civil buildings

  • La Crocetta, built by Cesare Visconti in 1694
  • Resistancea's monument by the sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro (1980)
  • Memorial to the Fallen by the sculptor Enrico Butti (1924)
  • Museo Arte Gallarate or Museo MA * GA

Nature parks

  • Natural Park of the Lombardy Valley of the Ticino Valley
  • Parco della Cascina Monte Diviso in the district of Cajello
  • La Boschina in the district of Crenna
  • Parco dei Fontanili
  • Parco Bassetti
Ivan Basso

Personalities

literature

  • Anna Ferrari-Bravo, Paola Colombini: Guida d'Italia. Lombardia (esclusa Milano). Milano 1987, p. 169.
  • Lombardia - Touring club italiano, Touring Editore (1999), ISBN 88-365-1325-5 , Gallarate Online in Italian.

Web links

Commons : Gallarate  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Gallarate (Italian) on lombardiabeniculturali.it, accessed December 20, 2015.
  • Gallarate (Italian) on tuttitalia.it/lombardia
  • Gallarate (Italian) on comuni-italiani.it
  • Gallarate (Italian) on lombardia.indettaglio.it/ita/comuni/va

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Museo Arte Gallarate (Italian) on lombardiabeniculturali.it, accessed December 20, 2015.