Venegono inferiore


Venegono Inferiore (Venegón da Sót in dialetto varesotto) è un comune della provincia di Varese. Sul suo territorio si trova l'aeroporto Arturo Ferrarin contiguo alle fabbriche della Aermacchi (produttrice degli MB-339 usati dalle Frecce Tricolori) e sede dell'Aeroclub Varese. Il comune ospita inoltre la sede del Seminario arcivescovile di Milano, inaugurato il 12 maggio 1935 e dedicato a papa Pio XI. Da Venegonum, nome romano di Venegono, passava la Via Mediolanum-Bilitio, che metteva in comunicazione Mediolanum (Milano) con Luganum (Lugano) passando da Varisium (Varese). In epoca romana da Venegono passava anche la via Novaria-Comum, strada romana che metteva in comunicazione i municipia di Novaria (Novara) e Comum (Como) passando per Sibrium (Castel Seprio).
Venegono Inferiore (Venegón da Sót in Varese dialect) is a town in the province of Varese. The area is home to the Arturo Ferrarin airport adjacent to the Aermacchi factories (producers of the MB-339 used by the Frecce Tricolori) and the site of the Aeroclub Varese. The town is also the location of the headquarters of the Archiepiscopal Seminary of Milan, opened on 12 May 1935 and dedicated to Pope Pius XI. The Via Mediolanum-Bilitio passed through Venegonum, the Roman name for Venegono. This road connected Mediolanum (Milan) with Luganum (Lugano) via Baretium (Varese). In Roman times, the Via Novaria-Comum also passed through Venegono, a Roman road which connected the municipia (town hall) of Novaria (Novara) and Comum (Como), via Sibrium (Castel Seprio).
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Venegono Inferiore on a postcard from the 1910s, when there was still only a single track. The second track was laid between 1926 and 1927. The passenger building in an archive photo from 1971 The Archiepiscopal Seminary of Milan (2.1 km): built on top of a hill and occupying an area 40 times the pitch at San Siro, this impressive building, whose foundation stone was laid on 6 February 1928, houses the archiepiscopal seminary of Milan, a library containing over 140,000 books, and a Natural History Museum. The 64-metre tower stands tall over the other buildings, and for nearly 50 years, from the 1930s, it was the headquarters of the Earth Physics Observatory.