LAGO DI MERGOZZO
Turning one's
back to the north-end of the Lago D'Orta, going along the Strona river (a very strange river: it is the only between the rivers of the
Pre-Alps lakes, that go to the north, and not to the south), and then along to the Toce as far as the river meets the Maggiore Lake,
there you can visit a picturesque stretch of water, the Mergozzo's Lake.
Once it was part of the Borromean Gulf, the
great north-west gulf of the Maggiore lake, and it separated from the Verbano in the 9th century, because of the
heap of Toce's alluvial storages. With hotels and camping's, and an aquatic sports school, the Lago di Mergozzo
offers also the opportunity to practice the windsurf. 
The tipical cuisine is fish base. And as tipical product can you buy flowers-case bowls in
white granite from Mount Orfano, the mount witch dominates the lake in the south front.
Mergozzo was an important transit centre before the Sempione road was built, in the Napoleonic period.
To visit the Romanic church of St. Maria of the 11th century and the parochial church
dedicated to Assumption of the Virgin Mary of the
17th century. There near the 17th century arcade "Le Cappelle" (the chapels) and the Antiquarium with
prehistoric finds from
Ossola and the Novara's province. A long stairway called "scarpia" go to the medieval castle. At 7 km you can find the Candoglia's
marble quarries, given in 1390 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti to the
"Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano" (and used for the construction of the
Milan Cathedral).
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