Gallarate

Gallarate is a city and comune of Alto Milanese of Lombardy and of Milan metropolitan place, northern Italy, within the Province of Varese. It has a population of 54,000 humans. Its name comes from Latin in reality quite a few cities around it have the identical root price including Casorate Sempione, Samarate, and so forth. It is the junction of railways to Varese, Laveno and Arona. Some 10 kilometers to the west are the electric works of Vizzola, in which 23,000 hp are derived from the river Ticino. Its territory is crossed by way of the river Arnetta, and belongs to the Ticino River Natural Park.

Founded through the Gauls and later conquered via the Romans, Gallarate became mentioned as a critical vicus or village in files dating returned to the Roman conquest of what changed into then referred to as Gallia Cisalpine. After the Carolingian conquest of northern crucial Italy, a castle becomes erected upon the stays of the authentic Roman fortifications located beside the still current Basilica of Santa Maria. The castle has disappeared, but its historical vicinity is recognized thru the city’s topography and by using the street name Via Postcastello.