Have you ever heard from the city of Baveno? It’s a small city located in the Borromean Gulf of lake Maggiore that overlooks an incredible panorama over the lake & the mountains!
The old church of the XI century is surely worth a visit, with its magnificient arcade of the via crucis. If you will visit Baveno you will notice Villa Henfrey-Branca, an historical building in Gothic style dated back to 1870, do you know that Queen Victoria stayed there with its baby child Beatrice?

On the mountains that surround the city you will see the quarries for the extraction of  pink granite, one of the most famous of the area… In fact in Baveno there are many streets and squares whose names are dedicated to this material and its processing!

3 KM from Baveno you will see the little village of Feriolo, an important point for the processing and shipment of granite. Do you know that in Feriolo starts the cycle path Toce river ““Ciclovia del Toce” ? Starting in Feriolo and cycling along the river you could reach Mergozzo and its little lake but also Domodossola!

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