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ID: 7006041
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006041
Record Type:
administrative
Varese (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 45 48 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 45.8000
decimal degrees
Long: 008 50 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 8.8333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located N of Milan in Alpine foothills; manufactures leather goods, shoes & textiles; noted for basilica of San Vittore (1580-1615) & the Palazzo Municipio (1766-1772), the former castle of the dukes of Este.
Names:
Varese
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italy
(nation) (
P
)
............
Lombardy
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Varese
(province) (
P
)
....................
Varese
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
cultural center (
C
)
pilgrimage center (
C
)
............
since 1684, with construction of Santa Maria del Monte church, at nearby Monte Sacro
Sources and Contributors:
Varese..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Annuario Generale (1980)
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 270
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
203
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Annuario Generale (1980)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 270
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-131903
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
203
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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