What to do
From the old churches closed during the year but full of life during the holidays to the old flour mills where once families cooked their bread for all the month.
If you like trekking the high valleywill be a paradise for you.
There are several excursions you can entreprise, from the easiest to the difficult one.
Pro Loco of Val Bognanco organizes every week tours, parties, games.
Tra le manifestazioni più affermate ricordiamo :
The Festival of the Nostrano, in July (tasting of typical products and nostrani cheeses)
The Festival of Mirtillo (Blueberry), in calendar for the first Sunday of september (products made up of mirtillo: risotto, milkshake, crepés, polenta, delicious marmellate cakes)
The “Torteria”, the sweeter party ever, a contest between hotel's chefs, bakeries, pastry shops of the zone in order to prepare the most original cake for decorations and dimensions.
Cakes are sold on a lottery between all guests of Bognanco.
“The big stuff yourself” party : with a ticket carnet, start from the beginning of the village and, by foot, stop in every restaurant, bar, hotel in order to taste typical plates of our region.
Neighborhoods
The valleys in Ossola region
Ossola is formed from seven valleys departing from Domodossola.
There are so many things to visit, and among them:
Toce waterfall
It's the highest jump of water's waterfall of Europe (143 meters) and it is placed at the top of Valle Formazza, 45 km. approximately from Domodossola.
An occasion for a nice trip to a place where the Walser minority of German origin is still present.
Interesting the mountain huts suspended on the land according to an ancient technique. The Val formazza is place of production of the “Bettelmatt”, a cheese produced from little mountaineers and nearly unavailable outside that zone.
Cascata del Toce is open:
from 1st June to 30th September
on Sundays
from 9.00 to 18.00
Tuesdays and Thursdays
From 11.00 to 13.00
Everydays from 10 to 20 August
from 9.00 to 18.00
Picture from Ossola.com
Orridi di Uriezzo - Antigorio Valley
Orridi are small canyons.
The peculiarity of the Orridi di Uriezzo consists in the fact that the torrent that has modelled them does not cover anymore these paths, so it is possible to walk inside them.
http://www.andifor.it/Nat_Orridi.asp
Miniera d'oro di Pestarena
Among the Ossola gold mines, Pestarena and Macugnaga are the most importants in Italy. The first to get gold from Anzasca Valley was the Roman Empire.
In the 50th more than 300 people worked in the mines but soon the foreigner production made these mines obsolete. They were closed in 1961.
Now the mine is a museum.
Open:
From 1° June to 18 September:
Everydays 09.00 - 11.30 / 14.00 - 17.30
Every Sundays :
09.00 - 11.30 / 14.00 - 17.30
Veglia-Devero Park
The Park comsists in two river basins placed one (Alpe Veglia) on the Alps Lepontine on the top of Val Cairasca, the other (Alpe Devero) in Val d' Ossola always in the northern Piemonte.
http://www.parcovegliadevero.it/
Chimney-sweepers Museum
Santa Maria Maggiore (Val Vigezzo)
The first chimney-sweepers were from Vigezzo Valley. In the 1500 they left this valley to the greatest European nations. Still today their descendants operate in big business among Europe.
Every year the gathering of the chimney-sweepers recalls people from all the Countries.
http://comune.santamariamaggiore.vb.it/storia/spazzacamini.html
Monte Calvario
Since 1657 Sacred Mount Calvary of Domodossola has been a place of meditation and prayer. After alternate vicissitudes, from February 1828, with Antonio Rosmini became the center of the Institute of the Charity (Rosminiani Fathers) he founded. The Unesco has declared in 2003 Sacred Mount Calvary “world-wide patrimony of the humanity”: an acknowledgment of absolute prestige.
http://www.sacromontedomodossola.it/
Mercati in Ossola
Mercati-Marches-Markets-Maerkte
Lunedì-Lundi-Monday-Montag
Ornavasso
Piedimulera
Santa Maria Maggiore
Martedì-Mardi-Tuesday-Dienstag
Malesco
Mergozzo
Mercoledì-Mercredi-Wednesday-Mittwoch
Antrona Schieranco
Baceno
Bannio Anzino
Calasca Castiglione
Pieve Vergonte
Toveno
Giovedì-Jeudi-Thursday-Donnerstag
Bognanco
Druogno
Omegna
Premosello Chivenda
Varzo
Villadossola (villaggio Sisma)
Villette
Venerdì-Vendredi-Friday-Freitag
Anzola D'Ossola
Craveggia
Crodo
Coimo
Macugnaga
Pallanzeno
Villadossola (centro)
Vogogna
Sabato-Samedi-Saturday-Samstag
Domodossola
Re
Ferrovia Vigezzina
A travel through nostalgia and romanticism.
The most direct connection from the Canton Ticino to Switzerland Romanda and the capital Bern passes for the Alps. It's a pleasant travel of an hour with the panoramic train, through colorful Centovalli and Valle Vigezzo.
TheI travel leads you on enormous precipices and spectacular cascades, through multicolors fields and audacious bridges, between vineyards and chestnut trees. You will be able to admire wonderful images and a fertile vegetation, an evocative landscape that, with the passing of the seasons, always becomes richer: a comfortable travel through an unforgettable, fascinating and varied route.
LAGO MAGGIORE EXPRESS
From Vigezzo Valley and from Domodossola to Stresa in train, from Stresa to Locarno in boat, Locarno to Vigezzo and Domodossola with our railroad.
This excursion allows to admire the beauties of the Lago Maggiore, on the beautiful motor-ships of Navigation Lago Maggiore. Bar and Restaurant with accurate kitchen (lunch on reservation). In Locarno free hours for visit the city.
A travel that will carry you outside the borders of Italy, programmed with combinations of rates facilitated. Interesting, easy, varied and unforgettable, this the tour that we suggest to you.
Other informations can be asked to the ticket offices of stations SSIF.
Direzione SSIF
Via Mizzoccola, 9
28845 Domodossola
Tel. +39 0324 242055
Fax +39 0324 45242
