Vezzo
Municipality of Gignese from 1928,
Van still retains a rural aspect in portals, barns, courtyards
with the well and the devotional image, double Loggia (lòbia and
lubión) of the houses of the 17th-18th centuries, most often in
stone and with arches supported by columns. Around the old
centre, new villas and residential villages. At the cemetery
have been found scattered fragments of pottery of the Roman
period, and also the name Van vien was of Roman origin, if not
gallica. The first mention of the town is contained in the
aronese paper dated to 1269, where appear of people paying
tribute to Vezo lands Mazere (= Machere, per Magognino) and
Vedasco. If you read the paper in the light of subsequent
events, you can assume that the assets in question were located
on Mergozzolo, where he owned extensive lands, Vedasco a time
certain common properties and then not without interminable
fractional disputes. In 1519 Habit denounced the aggression of
men of Stresa for border issues with the burning of a farmhouse
and embezzlement. The country had some notable families, with
clerics, notaries and public officials: Visconti, Calandra,
Dahiya.
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awarded the 16th-century palace known as ' Castle ' and on which
was carved the arms of Borromeo. It also has news of a painter,
Thu. Antonio Martinoli, active at the beginning of the
seventeenth century in Baveno, Campino, Munich and Ghevio.
Spiritual Habit depended in Carpugnino, where since 1452
residence had a Canon of Baveno. The Church of SS. Giovanni e
Paolo, is mentioned only in the sixteenth century, but was
already battered and was rebuilt at the beginning of the next
century. Is the construction of the oratory said Crocetta and
dedicated to the assumption, restored in the mid-18th century.
In 1760 Habit gained separation from Carpugnino; and at the end
of the century because of the new parish church, built on the
Summit of a hill dominating the country. The Church possesses a
beautiful Lamentation over the dead Christ, of unknown
sixteenth-century painter identified as the Maestro di s. Rocco
of Pallanza; and there, in the Museum landscape, the table was
taken and preserved. From inquiries to the Census of 1722
results that the country, in 326 produced wine, hay, rye,
chestnuts; There was an Inn with pay, two oil presses and wine.
During the Napoleonic period Van stopped paying tithes agreed
with Carpugnino citing, among other reasons, his poverty. After
the restoration of 1815 Carpugnino wrote that "Habit makes wine
for its use, abounds in Hays, walnuts, chestnuts, pastures,
cattle, etc.; and boasts of being in the neighborhood one of the
most prosperous countries for copia de ' wealthy with details».
Carpugnino and Stropino themselves instead "poor and Majeed»;
There is of course doubt on both claims, for blatant excess and
defect, but when it came to money to shell out needed to be
convincing. The most characteristic point of the country is the
central square or Piazza dei Caduti where, at the foot of pink
granite staircase that goes up to the parish church, is a
centenarian horse chestnut surrounded by a ring true in early
altar from well water. Taking the via IV Novembre, at no. 5
there is a fresco of the Madonna di Caravaggio, rescued by a
pre-existing chapel, and later a stone engraving (with glass
carafe) likely remake of an earlier engraving with protective
function, as well as some time door arches, in which are
embedded fragments of melting slag. This protection was then
entrusted to the devotional images, especially of Madonna, but
also to horseshoes, or entrusted, with greater pragmatism, the
Tin plates of insurance against fire. Just above the village, a
dairy barn keeps a curious inscription of such Contini, the
soldier of Napoleon in Russia and other places. Descending from
piazza Caduti in via Cavallotti, and crossed the road, lies the
' Castle ', the sixteenth-century building by the sober
architecture and severe. On the right a small road leads to the
Sports Centre and at the cemetery, with the now abandoned chiesa
della Crocetta. The place is charming, and the look from the
back of Mount Mottarone that descends to the East until poggio
di Nocco, high above the Grisana Valley. Further down, over the
fields and fruit trees surviving the abandonment of the
countryside, the Valley of Carpugnino and morena slope toward
the top of the Motta Rossa. Belong to our time building a
nine-hole golf course (Golf Club Stresa) and construction, in
the landscape, a new church next to the House of Nazareth; an
initiative for the religious education of adolescents, founded
by Fr. Hyginus Silvestrelli di Verona (1969). The nearby Hotel
Panorama, currently undergoing transformation, hosted by his
pupil Cantelli Toscanini and, on several occasions, the
Director-writer Mario Soldati who collected the memories of his
vezzesi stays in the mass volume of vacationers. |
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