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Varese

Varese

Varese is a pleasant hillside city in , a few kilometres from the Swiss border, with a cosy historic centre, stunning views of the namesake lake and the Alps and plenty of opportunity for outdoor and indoor activities.
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  • Type: City with 80,600 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: “Varés”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Varese railway station and Stadio Franco Ossola.

Railway station
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serves the town and comune of Varese, in the region of , northern Italy. Opened in 1865, it is located on the Porto Ceresio–Milan railway.

Stadium
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The is a sports and velodrome currently in use by the football team Varese FC. Constructed in 1925, and originally named the Stadio del Littorio, the stadium was renamed in September 1950 in memory of Franco Ossola, an Italian from Varese and player for Torino F.C. who died in 1949 in the Superga air disaster.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the town and comune of Varese, in the region of , northern Italy. It is located on the Milan-Saronno railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Malnate and Induno Olona.

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is a comune in the , in the region of . It lies in a mountainous region approximately 30 miles north of , in the foothills of the near the border between Italy and Switzerland.

Town
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is a town and comune in , in north-western , 60 kilometres north of , in the . It had a population, in 2021, of c. 10,287.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood or quartiere of the city of Varese, Italy, located in the northern part of the city. It had been an independent municipality until 1927 when it merged with Varese. The Castello of is found in this district.

Varese

Latitude
45.8175° or 45° 49′ 3″ north
Longitude
8.8264° or 8° 49′ 35″ east
Population
80,600
Elevation
382 metres (1,253 feet)
IATA airport code
QVA
United Nations Location Code
IT VAR
Open location code
8FQCRR9G+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 62505628
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3164699
Wiki­data ID
Q6285
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Varese” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Varese”
  • Albanian: “Varese”
  • Arabic: “فاريزي”
  • Arabic: “فريزة”
  • Arabic: “فَرِيزة”
  • Arabic: “فريزي”
  • Aragonese: “Varese”
  • Armenian: “Վառեսե”
  • Armenian: “Վարեզե”
  • Asturian: “Varese”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vareze”
  • Basque: “Varese”
  • Bavarian: “Varese”
  • Belarusian: “Варэзэ”
  • Bengali: “ভারেসে”
  • Bosnian: “Varese”
  • Breton: “Varese”
  • Bulgarian: “Варезе”
  • Catalan: “Varés”
  • Catalan: “Varese”
  • Cebuano: “Varese”
  • Central Bikol: “Varese”
  • Chechen: “Варесе”
  • Chinese: “Varese”
  • Chinese: “瓦雷泽”
  • Chinese: “瓦雷澤”
  • Corsican: “Varese”
  • Croatian: “Varese”
  • Czech: “Varese”
  • Danish: “Varese”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Varese”
  • Dutch: “Varés”
  • Dutch: “Varese”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فاريزى”
  • Esperanto: “Varés”
  • Esperanto: “Varese”
  • Esperanto: “Varezo”
  • Estonian: “Varese”
  • Extremaduran: “Varese”
  • Finnish: “Varés”
  • Finnish: “Varese”
  • French: “Varés”
  • French: “Varèse”
  • Galician: “Varese”
  • Georgian: “ვარეზე”
  • German: “Varés”
  • German: “Varese”
  • German: “Väris”
  • Greek: “Βαρέζε”
  • Gujarati: “વરેસે”
  • Hebrew: “וארזה”
  • Hindi: “वारिसे”
  • Hungarian: “Varese”
  • Indonesian: “Varese”
  • Interlingua: “Varese”
  • Irish: “Varese”
  • Italian: “Varés”
  • Italian: “Varese”
  • Japanese: “ヴァレーゼ”
  • Kannada: “ವರೆಸೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Варезе”
  • Korean: “바레세”
  • Kotava: “Varese”
  • Kurdish: “Varese”
  • Ladin: “Varese”
  • Latin: “Baretium”
  • Latvian: “Varés”
  • Latvian: “Varēze”
  • Ligurian: “Vareise”
  • Lithuanian: “Varés”
  • Lithuanian: “Varezė”
  • Lombard: “Vares”
  • Luxembourgish: “Varese”
  • Macedonian: “Варезе”
  • Malay: “Varese”
  • Maltese: “Varese”
  • Maltese: “Vareże”
  • Marathi: “वरेसे”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Varese”
  • Neapolitan: “Varese”
  • Northern Frisian: “Varese”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Varese”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Varese”
  • Norwegian: “Varese”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Varese”
  • Ossetian: “Варезе”
  • Ossetian: “Варесе”
  • Persian: “وارزه”
  • Persian: “ورزه”
  • Piemontese: “Varèis”
  • Polish: “Varese”
  • Portuguese: “Varés”
  • Portuguese: “Varese”
  • Quechua: “Varese”
  • Romanian: “Varese”
  • Russian: “Варезе”
  • Russian: “Варесе”
  • Sanskrit: “वारेसे”
  • Sardinian: “Varese”
  • Scots: “Varese”
  • Serbian: “Варезе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Varese”
  • Sicilian: “Varesi”
  • Silesian: “Varese”
  • Sinhala: “වැරෙස්”
  • Slovak: “Varese”
  • Slovenian: “Varés”
  • Slovenian: “Varese”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وارزه”
  • Spanish: “Varés”
  • Spanish: “Varese”
  • Swahili: “Varese”
  • Swedish: “Varés”
  • Swedish: “Varese”
  • Tagalog: “Varese”
  • Tamil: “வாரேஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Варезе”
  • Telugu: “వారేసే”
  • Thai: “วาเรซี”
  • Thai: “วาเรเซ”
  • Turkish: “Varese”
  • Twi: “Varese”
  • Ukrainian: “Варезе”
  • Urdu: “واریزے”
  • Venetian: “Varexe”
  • Vietnamese: “Varese”
  • Vlaams: “Varese”
  • Volapük: “Varese”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Varese”
  • Welsh: “Varese”
  • Western Frisian: “Varese”
  • Western Panjabi: “واریسی”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦雷泽”
  • Yue Chinese: “瓦雷澤”
  • “Varais”
  • “Varese”

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