Cassano Magnago

Situated between the Val d' Arno and the Valle Olona, now joined by the neighbouring Gallarate, Cassano Magnago is today the fifth Municipality of the Varese province for number of inhabitants. Its territory extends for 12 kmq, flat and hilly, with two streams, Tenore and Rile, that caused many damages with their floodings. On the top of a morainic hill, in the past a clay quarry, rises the Oasi Boza, a protect wetland.

Probably in this area lived Celtic and Gallic people before the Romans. All the finds of the Roman Age such as coins, tombs and small furnaces for baked clay, are now at the Museo della Società degli Studi Patri in Gallarate.

To see:

- the church of Santa Maria, built around the one thousand and restored in 1800, with the precious relic of the Holy Thorn that Princivalle Visconti carried in 1570

- the church of San Bernardo, dated 1500

- the parish church of San Giulio