Varesina
| Quartiere Varesina | |
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| Quartiere of Milan | |
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| Coordinates: 45°29′44.08″N 9°8′57.3″E / 45.4955778°N 9.149250°E | |
| Country |
 Italy
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| Region | Lombardy |
| Province | Milan |
| Comune | Milan |
| Zone | 8 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
Quartiere Varesina is a small district, quartiere, of Milan, located in the suburban north-west part of the city. It belongs on the Zone 8 administrative division of the city.
Its name derived from Strada della Varesina, meaning Road for Varese, the pre-alpine city 50 km. at north of Milan.
Quartiere Varesina is the district located to east of Via Varesina, having Viale Espinasse as central axis that extends from Piazzale Accursio up to the Svincolo of Viale Certosa. It's a highly urbanized area consists of a set of uninterrupted houses, buildings, small and medium-sized enterprises, medium-sized offices, old and recent. The district does not have a definite urban plan, developed as the industrial outskirts of the city with green spaces practically nil. Still today, the industrial part of the neighborhood is changing.
Quartiere Varesina name is unknown to most people, because the name is derived from a road, Strada della Varesina, fully incorporated into the city, and this road is less important than in the past when it was the only connection from Milan to the outside in the direction of Varese, even if, the name, Via Varesina, remained. Furthermore, Via Varesina is the demarcation of a side of the neighborhood and not its axis. The neighborhood for his difference is often indicated with the name of one of its streets, Espinasse, or with known locations or areas that are located in its vicinity, Certosa, Highway for Lakes, Viale Certosa, Musocco, Garegnano or pairs of names Varesina-Espinasse, Certosa-Musocco and so on.
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From the quarter you are accessing strategic areas:
Quartiere Varesina occupies part of the surface of the Musocco municipality abolished in 1923 which began from Strada della Varesina and bordered to Milan along Cagnola. The boundary of the district to the city is similar to that subdivision, despite the transformations that have occurred, indicated as Piazzale Accursio perimeter and the adjacent streets connecting to the beginning of Via Varesina.
The area takes shape in the second half of the nineteenth century with the construction of three great ways that change the geography, clearly separating the old centers:
Strada della Varesina was of ancient age. This four roads delimite the district.
The new driveway for Lakes Highway, bisects Garegnano, leaving the Certosa di Garegnano on one side and the village of houses on the other. In fact, the old village of Garegnano, Garegnano Marcido, in the new geography then becomes part of Quartiere Varesina. This division between the two areas is even more clear with the construction of the flyover del Ghisallo in 1960.
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