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ID: 7006041
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006041
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Varese (inhabited place)  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:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italy (nation)  ........  Italy (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Lombardy (region (administrative division))  ............  Lombardy (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Varese (province)  ................  Varese (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Varese (inhabited place)  ....................  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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