WHAT TO
VISIT?
Malesco
Finero
Parish
Church
The Finero church is dedicated to San Gottardo, celebrated on May 5th, and it is located on a rocky slope at the beginning of the village towards Malesco; at the side of the church, instead, there is the parish house "Cà dul Prev" (literally "House of the Priest"), which is flanked by the 1759 bell tower 36 meters high.
Photo: ©Christian Guerra
Oratory of Madonna del Sasso
On the rocky spur that overlooks the church of Finero, in an apical position, rises the oratory of the Madonna of Loreto, also known as the Black Madonna.
Every year, on the occasion of the feast of the Black Madonna, the statue of the Madonna is carried on the shoulders in procession.
Photo: ©Christian Guerra
"Pian dei Sali" Oasis
The area in which the Oasis extends embraces the surroundings of Finero and goes as far as the territory of Villette. The flat and marshy bottom of the site was perfect for the culture of amphibians, thanks to the arrangement of small ponds shaded by pine trees and also allowed the creation of a circular itinerary about 2 km long.
Photo: © Christian Guerra
Zornasco
The ancient mill of Piano or Tač
The mill dul Tač is located at Piano, near the Zornasco stop of the Vigezzina Railway, on the right side of the provincial road to that hamlet.
It is a seventeenth-century construction in the shape of an "L" developed on two floors, one of which is a basement.
Photo: ©Christian Guerra
Via Crucis
The churchyard of the southern part of the church is surrounded by a wall in which eight artistic chapels of the Via Crucis are grafted, dating back to the early 19th century, some of them painted by Lorenzo Peretti from Buttogno and by Carlo Gaudenzio Lupetti from Prestinone.
Photo: ©Christian Guerra
Museum of the Val Grande National Park
The archaeological museum of the Val Grande National Park is located in a historical building owned by the Municipality of Malesco. Inside the rooms there are important archaeological finds ranging from the Bronze Age to the Roman era and up to the early Middle Ages.
Photo: ©Christian Guerra
The Oratory of San Bernardino da Siena
The Oratory of San Bernardino da Siena was rebuilt on the original of 1450 and of the primitive building maintains only the location in a square-shaped plan. The floor, realized in 1877, resumes that one of the parish church, both for designs and for materials and valuable paintings, work of the Malesque Polini and Sotta.
Historical
Washhouse
The wash-house is located in Piazza della Chiesa, dates back to 1895 and was built by the municipality on the occasion of the first important water supply to the town. In 2007 it became the seat of an interesting thematic exhibition on the life and feat of Giovanni Maria Salati, the first man to swim across the English Channel in 1817.
Photo: ©Massimiliano Riotti
Fountain of the Basilisk
The basilisk fountain is the only recently built element (2002) in the square of the parish church.
The fountain, designed by Giorgio Cavalli, has a quadrangular plan inferred from the flower Potentilla Tormentilla, very common in the territory and already represented in the municipal coat of arms.
Parish
Church
Dedicated to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, the parish church was originally smaller in size and only in 1700 was significantly enlarged. The atrium protecting the main door on the west side dates back to 1714 and, while the two initial side chapels date back to the end of the 17th century, the four remaining ones were completed with their altars in 1790.
Photo: ©Christian Guerra
Slippery Rock and Cupped Rock
The popular tradition handed down ascribed to the so called "Sasso scivolone" powers of fertility for young women who could not have children.
In the area there is also a cupped rock once called "sas d'la lesna" (stone of the lightning) because of the small round incisions.
Photo: ©Christian Guerra