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Location of Val Vigezzo in Piedmont, northern Italy.The valley seen from Monte Torriggia.Panorama of the valley from Craveggia.
Valle Vigezzo (Vigezzo Valley) is a valley in the Lepontine Alps in northwestern Italy on the border with Canton Ticino of Switzerland. It forms the eastern branch of the Ossola valley. It is also called the Valle dei Pittori (Valley of the Painters) due to the large number of painters over the centuries such as Giuseppe Mattia Borgnis, Lorenzo Peretti, Bernardino Peretti, Enrico Cavalli, Carlo Fornara, Giovanni Battista Ciolina, Gian Maria Rastellini, Maurizio Borgnis, Lorenzo Peretti Junior. It is remembered for its "spazzacamini" or chimney-sweepers who brought their trade around Europe. It is connected with the Eau de Cologne, invented over 300 years ago by Giovanni Maria Farina using, among other ingredients flowers and oils from plants from Vigezzo. Another man from Vigezzo, Giovan Maria Salati is credited to be the first recorded person swimming across the English Channel over 200 years ago, after having been taken prisoner by the British after Waterloo.
The valley itself is unusual for not having a single river running along it, but two, one towards the Toce river (Melezzo Occidentale) and the other (Melezzo Orientale) to the Swiss side towards Lake Maggiore. The Swiss side of the valley is called Centovalli.
ValleVigezzo (Vigezzo Valley) is a valley in the Lepontine Alps in northwestern Italy on the border with Canton Ticino of Switzerland. It forms the eastern...
Farina (1685–1766), an Italian perfume maker from Santa Maria Maggiore, ValleVigezzo. In 1708, Farina wrote to his brother Jean Baptiste: "I have found a...
autolinee regionali ticinesi)) through the Swiss Centovalli and Italian ValleVigezzo. There are trams operating on nine systems in seven Swiss cities. Street-running...
Lorenzo Peretti Junior was the last descendant of a gifted dynasty of ValleVigezzo artists: the Perettis of Buttogno. His artistic inclinations and talent...
they operate the railway through the Swiss Centovalli and the Italian ValleVigezzo, which connects the Gotthard trans-Alpine rail route at Locarno railway...
founded their firm in France, the Mellerio family of jewellers, from ValleVigezzo, modified their name to Mellerio dits Meller. Some families with such...
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community of Dissimo, which today belongs to the community of Re in ValleVigezzo). In 1819, a six-story hotel with thermal facilities was built at the...
business. The firm started in 1613, founded by the Mellerio family from ValleVigezzo, under the patronage of Marie de Médicis. Jean-Baptiste Mellerio (1765-1850)...
Modena, Bologna, and Cento) and with branches in Turin, Genova and ValleVigezzo, the Gennari family has made significant contributions to various fields...
niobium, tantalum, and titanium. It was first discovered near Orcesco, ValleVigezzo, Provo Novara, Northern Italy, in cavities of an albitic rock. The crystals...
Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei Re, Piedmont: Madonna del Sangue in the ValleVigezzo (Vigezzotal) Vatican: Saint Peter's tomb, Holy Lance, grave of John...
divisionist painter. Born in Prestinone (Craveggia) into a humble family of ValleVigezzo farmers in 1871, his talent emerged after he began attending courses...
the Valle Verzasca, the Cento Valli and also from the Italian Val Vigezzo valleys, and frequently worked in northern Italy. Every autumn in Vigezzo chimney...
capacity of 40 people), a concentration camp was set up at Druogno in the Vigezzo Valley. As of October 2, 1944, 150 arrests had already been made and it...
Italian neo-impressionist and divisionist painter. Born into a family of ValleVigezzo farmers in 1870, he attended the Rossetti Valentini Art School in Santa...
anti-clockwise: Val d'Ossola Valle Anzasca Valle Antrona Val Bognanco Val Divedro Valle Antigorio Val Formazza Val Vigezzo Valsesia Val Mastallone Val...
Bergamino. The Swiss were once again marauding in the villages of the ValleVigezzo, when they were assaulted by the Milanese troops from three sides. The...
valleys: Anzasca, Antrona, Bognanco, Divedro, Antigorio, Formazza, Isorno and Vigezzo. It is surrounded by the Pennine Alps on the western side and by the Lepontine...
paths. This historic way starts in Domodossola and goes through the ValleVigezzo and the Centovalli as far as Locarno. The track uses trails and mule...
part of the Onsermone massif. The mountain lies between the Valle Isorno and Val Vigezzo, not far from the border with Switzerland, and is linked by a...
"Vigezzini di Francia. Pittura d'alpe e d'Oltralpe tra Otto e Novecento in ValleVigezzo", Skira, Milan, 2007 Giovanna Nicoletti: "Paesaggi dell'Ottocento. Verso...
square kilometres (16.7 sq mi). Malesco is the most populous comune in Val Vigezzo and has a station on the Domodossola–Locarno railway which runs along the...
the drainage basin of the Po River. It is located between the valley of Vigezzo in the north, the Cannobina valley in the northwest, the valley of Ossola...
Formaggella Valcavallina Formaggello spazzacamino – Val Vigezzo, Piedmont Formaggetta Formaggetta della Valle Argentina – Liguria Formaggetta di Bonassola – Liguria...
Morelli, Domobianca, Druogno, Formazza, Macugnaga, Mottarone, Piana di Vigezzo, Pian di Sole, San Domenico di Varzo) Oropa Pian del Frais Pontechianale...
Fondazione Slow Food per la Biodiversità (in Italian). ‘Ramassin del Monviso Valle Bronda’[permanent dead link], Fondazione Slow Food per la Biodiversità (in...
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