In the local dialect Busto Garolfo is Büst Picul, little Busto, a name that sets it apart from Büsti Grandi, which is Busto Arsizio, and Büst Cava, which is Buscate. The earliest record of the village is a private deed of June 992: Domenico, archpriest of Dairago, gave the canons of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan a plot of vineyard in the place called Bustus Garulfi.
The arms, per fess red and silver with a capital B counterchanged, come from those of the da Busti, a Lombard family whose shield in the Stemmario Trivulziano carries two of them. In 1664 Giambattista Losetti sold the village to Giuseppe Arconati for 4,760 Milanese lire, and the king of Spain made the buyer marquess of Busto Garolfo. A royal decree of 1870 attached Olcella and Villa Cortese to the comune: Olcella stayed, Villa Cortese left after the Second World War.
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📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of October for Our Lady of the Rosary; Holy Cross in May and Saint Margaret in July
Busto Garolfo celebrates Our Lady of the Rosary on the first Sunday of October; the town also venerates the Holy Cross, on the first Sunday of May, and Saint Margaret of Antioch, on the first Sunday of July, in the Church of Santi Salvatore e Margherita.
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Outside Busto Garolfo, but an easy day trip away.
