Location: Province of Varese
Top Things to do in Province of Varese
Things to do in Province of Varese, Lombardy: The Best Museums
The province of Varese (Italian: provincia di Varese) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Varese (population of 80,857 inhabitants), but its largest city is Busto Arsizio. The headquarters of the AgustaWestland, the company merged into Leonardo since 2016, the world's largest producer of helicopters, is based in Samarate, a comune of the province. As of 2015, it has a population of 889,410 inhabitants over an area of 1,198.11 square kilometres (462.59 sq mi). The provincial president is Nicola Gunnar Vincenzi.
Restaurants in Province of Varese
1. Casa Museo Lodovico Pogliaghi
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5.0 based on 108 reviews
2. Museo Enrico Butti
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5.0 based on 8 reviews
The Museo Enrico Butti is a collection of plaster casts of contemporary art in Viggiu. The collection consists primarily of works by the sculptor which is titled, 87 plaster models and some paintings by the same artist who donated them in 1926 to the municipality in order to accomplish just this museum.
3. Museo Fisogni
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5.0 based on 76 reviews
Open on appointment only. The most complete in the world (certified Guinness World Record) about the service station. A unique place for classic car lovers and motorcycle meetings.
Reviewed By 624clarissam - Bromley, United Kingdom
I have recently visited Museo Fisogni and I was in awe. It's a vast private collection of gas station pumps and road signs, it is very variegated and we'll put together. Gas pumps don't sound very glamorous, but old ones are very colourful and we'll designed. I recommend it if they are in Northern Italy lakes' area.
4. Museo Castiglioni
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5.0 based on 102 reviews
ATTENTION The Castiglioni Museum will be closed from July 30th to August 30th. We are waiting for you in September, even with the first edition of VARESE ARCHEOFILM, from 6 to 9 September at the Giardini Estensi. A fascinating journey between archeology and ethnology, from desert to savannah, between myth and reality. An unforgettable experience through unique finds.
5. American Southwest Museum
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5.0 based on 3 reviews
6. Base Geodetica
7. Villa e Collezione Panza
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4.5 based on 656 reviews
Reviewed By gregoryscat - Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Good parking. Little coffee shop. Larger restaurant (which we didn't try). Small shop. We saw the temporary Sean Scully exhibition which was thoroughly enjoyable with lots of space in which to display the a huge collection of work. Enjoyed some of rest of collection too. Views onto garden were lovely. Unfortunately raining so unable to enjoy the outside space which looked really special. Worth the visit.
8. Museo della Pipa
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4.5 based on 17 reviews
9. Museo Baroffio e del Santuario del Sacro Monte Sopra Varese
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4.5 based on 60 reviews
The museum opened in 1900 to preserve some of the artistic heritage of the Sanctuary of Santa Maria del Monte, on the summit of the Sacro Monte of Varese, a Unesco World Heritage site since 2003. Later on the Museum has enriched its heritage thanks to new donations. The most important was the one made by Joseph Baroffio Dall'Aglio who gave the Sanctuary also the money to build the current home. The latest restoration, completed in 2001, widened the exhibition space and enhanced the collections. In eight rooms, including old rooms with rests of frescoes, there are works that tell the history and the art of the Sacro Monte, while the Baroffio picture gallery provides a path among Flemish, Dutch, Lombard, Venetian and Emilian paintings ranging from the 15th to the 18th century. The modern room hosts around sixty works of artists of the 20th century.
