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Busto Arsizio is a city in the region of Lombardy, in northern Italy, 25 km north of Milan in the province of Varese (longitude: 08°50'51", latitude: 45°36'48").
Population
In 2001 Busto Arsizio had 77,094 inhabitants (a.k.a. Bustocchi) (source: ISTAT).
Economy
The economy of Busto Arsizio is mainly based on industry and commerce. Some famous Busto Arsizio-based firms are: XXX
History
All Busto Arsizios historians tried to find descendants of
noble origin, above all among the Romans.
But recent studies have shown instead that the
descendants were of humble origin in the Ligurians,
who were called wild by Plinio, marauders and
robbers by Livio and unshaven and hairy by
Pompeo Trago.
They were good at working iron and
they were much sought after as mercenary soldiers
who traditionally used to set fires to woods full of old
and young oaks and black hornbeams, which at that
time, covered the whole Padana Plain. This practice,
known as debbio, was aimed at creating fields where
they used to grow grapevines or cereals such as
foxtail, millet and rye or just to create places where
they could build stone huts with thatched roofs.
By doing this they created a bustum, that is a new
settlement which, in order to be distinguished from
the other nearby settlements, was assigned a name:
arsicium (Busto Arsizio), carulfì (Busto Garolfo), cava (Buscate).
The consistent increase in population was helped
without doubt by the Gauls from the Insubri tribe,
Celtic populations who arrived in successive stages
by crossing the Alps at about the middle of the first
millennium before Christ.
They did nor settle here casually: in fact, the
settlement was created on an area on the route
from Milan to Lake Maggiore (called Milans road,
an alternative route to the existent Sempione), part
of which, before the creation of the Naviglio, made
use of the navigational water of the river Ticino.
Culture
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