Built on seven low hills between the near Lake Varese and the Campo dei Fiori massif, it is called '"garden city " because of its splendid 18th century villas with extensive gardens, now public parks.
The Basilica of San Vittore with its Bell Tower, the Baptistry of San Giovanni, as well as the Castel of Masnago, and the villas are only some evidences of its millenary history.

Placed on the ancient route leading from Milano to Angera, it was an important village already in Roman Age. Its citizens' industrial attitude spaced from textile industry to mechanic and aeronautic one.

Well-known in the Middle Age for the tanning of hide and skin, became famous in the 16th century for the fustian manufacture. Its growth in the 19th century was due to the cotton industry.

In 1948 some 'bustocchi' businessmen built the Busto Airport at Cascina Malpensa, the present Malpensa Airport.

It was an important and rich agricultural village, seat of an ancient market. In the 1900s changed in industrial and commercial center.

It was an agricultural center mainly taken up with silkworm growing and seat of an important stock market. In the 19th century devoped many industrial activities.

Seat of important woollen industries, it's placed on a plateau of heaths that overlooks the Ticino Valley.

It stands where the Lake Maggiore becomes Ticino River and flows towards the plain.
The first finds of the Golasecca culture have been discovered not far away along the Light Blue River.

The most populated town on the Lombard shore of the Lake Maggiore, is today a well-known tourist resort. Every Wednesday a a famous stall market fills the roads of the town since 1541.