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Extract from the Castiglione Olona and Castelseprio Travel Guides:
One of the best excursions you can make from Varese is to
CASTIGLIONE OLONA
, a Renaissance-style village just twenty minutes by bus from Varese's Piazza Kennedy (#B45), built by Cardinal Branda Castiglione in the fifteenth century and inspired by the architecture he had seen in Florence. Masolino, a pupil of Masaccio, created the limpid frescoes you can see in the hilltop
Collegiata
and its
baptistry
. And there are more frescoes in the
Casa dei Castiglioni
on the sleepy main square, including one of Vezprem, Hungary, as described to Masolino by the cardinal, who was bishop there...
read the whole Castiglione Olona and Castelseprio Travel Guides...
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