“In speaking of the new Varese, reference must be made to specific periods, as the city’s renewal has three stages and the third has only just begun”.

Besides the urban description of the city centre at the time, consisting of certain “afflictions”, considerable beauty, as well as other works of engineering and tourism, the invaluable company magazine of the era gave further insight into another major event which was in development, namely: “...the opening of the Como Varese Laveno and Saronno Malnate railway lines, later transferred to Ferrovie Nord Milano, lines destined to connect Varese with the two great Lombard lakes and to give a greater new thrust to the city’s development...”.

The magazine further added:

The second stage began with the opening of the Varese Prima Cappella Sacro Monte line, one of the first electric mountain tramways built in Italy.

It was only thanks to the generous intervention of Ferrovie Nord Milano, then headed by Ambrogio Campiglio, that sufficient funds for completion of the facility were reached: “this first line was the spark that ignited a whole series of major works which seemed to spring up almost naturally, and which no-one could have imagined would ever come to pass...”.

These wonderful words from Nord Milano magazine in 1934 unambiguously capture the transformation of an urban world in an era which only at its end, and with the outcome of the fruit that it bore, could be described in all its vastness and contextualised within that specific moment in time lasting fifty years, during which the industrial revolution showed its best and most human side.