Varese (It. Provincia di Varese) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Varese. In Italy, the province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (Regione). ... Jump to: navigation, search Lombardy (in Italian Lombardia) is a region in northern Italy between the Alps and the Po Valley. ... See Edgar Varèse for the composer Varese is a city in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 55 km north of Milan. ...
It has an area of 1,199 sq km, and a total population of 812,477 (2001). There are 141 communes in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics Istat, see this link).
Varese is a city in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 55 km north of Milan.
It is the capital of the province with the same name; other important towns in the province are Busto Arsizio[?], Gallarate[?], Saronno[?], Tradate[?].
The province of Varese lies below the Alps, so mountains and hills constitute 32% and 46% of its territory respectively; other common features are rivers (including the Ticino and Olona[?]) and glacial lakes (Lake Maggiore[?], Lake Lugano[?], Lake of Varese[?] and four other smaller ones).