Οι καλύτεροι αστικοί περίπατοι στο Βερμπάνο-Κούζιο-Όσσολα

Στο εσωτερικό ενός πρώην φραγκισκανικού ναού υπάρχουν τρία εκθεσιακά επίπεδα. Στο ισόγειο υπάρχουν περιοδικές εκθέσεις, στον πρώτο όροφο βρίσκεται το Μουσείο Φυσικών Επιστημών και στον δεύτερο όροφο το Μουσείο Τέχνης.

Have a drink here on the Piazza and watch the hustle and bustle on the square and the lake - simply fantastic!

During the Fascist era, after the death of General Luigi Cadorna in 1928, a mausoleum was built in Pallanza to house the general's remains and commemorate the soldiers of the First World War. The memorial on Lungo Lago was inaugurated in 1932.

If the weather is bad in northern Switzerland, a bike trip to Domodossola is worthwhile. It's quick and easy to reach by train from Brig. Saturdays are always busy because of the market. Sundays are more pleasant for cyclists, and you have the cafés to yourself.

The Saturday market in Domodossola is always worth a visit, after all it is one of the oldest in the Alps😎

From a Celtic and Roman sanctuary to the Matarella fortress and a Capuchin monastery, this spiritual place tells an amazing story.

The parish church of Domodossola is dedicated to the Milanese twins Gervasio and Protasio, tortured to death in the 6th century AD: it was built between 1792 and 1798 on the ruins of a 15th century church, according to a design by the architect Matteo Zucchi. The Collegiate Church of Domodossola is divided into three naves with six choirs and a valuable high altar in polychrome marble. It had no façade until 1953 and was completed by the architect Giovanni Creppi in 1954 on the initiative of the parish priest Monsignor Luigi Pellanda. The columned portal comes from the old church: it was created by the master Bernardino Lazzaro from Val d’Intelvi in 1648; the paintings in the barrel vault and on the sides of the columned portal are by Carlo Mellerio, an artist from the Vigezzo Valley who lived in the 17th century. The Romanesque portal made of serpentine stone, which is now incomplete and was restored during the work on the façade, also comes from the first church. The bronze panels on the door are by Vitaliano Marchini, a sculptor from the Academy in Brera in the Ossola Valley. Source: https://www.visitossola.it/de/poi/stiftskirche-ss-gervasio-e-protasio-domodossola/

In 1656, two Capuchins chose the hill of Colle Mattarella, above Domodosso, to make it a place of pilgrimage. Twelve chapels were built, each with a statue or fresco depicting the Stations of the Cross, with an additional chapel depicting the Resurrection of Christ. At the top of Colle Mattarella stands the octagonal Sanctuary of the Holy Cross, the construction of which began in 1657. In the park of the Sacro Monte di Domodossola are the remains of the Mattarella Castle, destroyed in 1415 by Swiss soldiers who wanted to conquer the Ossola Valley and take it from the Duchy of Milan. In 1656, two Capuchins from the Domodossola monastery, Father Gioacchino from Cassano and Father Andrea from Rho, decided to have Stations of the Cross built on the slopes of Colle Mattarella, leading to a church dedicated to the Holy Cross. It was planned to gradually replace the crosses with chapels for the individual Stations of the Cross. Bishop Guido Maria Odescalchi commissioned the legal scholar Giovanni Matteo Capis to coordinate the project and named the hill Monte Calvario ("Calvary"), as the places of worship of the Sacri Monti ("holy mountains") were intended to symbolize the sites in the Holy Land that many pilgrims could not or could no longer reach. The construction work and the technical implementation were entrusted to the architect Tomaso Lazzaro from the Val d'Intelvi. The foundation stone for the pilgrimage site was laid on July 8, 1657, and in March 1662 the first Holy Mass was celebrated at the altar on which a crucifix by Dionigi Bussola had just been erected. A great benefactor and financier of the project was Kaspar Stockalper, a merchant, notary and governor from the Valais who was forced into exile in Domodossola, directly on Monte Calvario, where his figure embodies St. Gaspar, one of the Three Kings, in the 15th chapel of the Sacro Monte. The project to build the chapels was completed in the course of the 18th century; their furnishings have been constantly restored or renewed since then; the most recent statues, from 1957, are carved in wood. Source and further information: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacro_Monte_di_Domodossola