A town of looms and heathland, Gallarate turned its industrial inheritance into a cultural calling: the MA*GA museum, born from the Gallarate Prize established in 1949, is one of Lombardy's leading modern and contemporary art museums, holding thousands of twentieth-century Italian works. The centre, around the nineteenth-century basilica and Art Nouveau palaces, keeps the bourgeois elegance of the cotton era.
Malpensa airport is ten minutes away: many just pass through; the savvy use Gallarate as a base, with direct trains to Milan and the lakes within an evening's reach.
Near Gallarate
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
