BUSTO ARSIZIO

busto arsizio, a town of lombardy, italy, in the province of milan, 21 m. n.w. by rail from the town of milan. pop. (1901) 19,673. it contains a fine domed church, s. maria di piazza, built in 1517 after the designs of bramante: the picture over the high altar is one of gaudenzio ferrari's best works. the church of s. giovanni battista is a good baroque edifice of 1617; by it stands a fine 13th-century campanile. busto arsizio is an active manufacturing town, the cotton factories being [v.04 p.0877] especially important. it is a railway junction for novara and seregno.