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Museo del Paesaggio (Verbania)

Museo del Paesaggio (Verbania)

To promote the study of the region’s natural and artistic beauty and to promote its safeguarding” is article 3 of the Museo del Paesaggio (Landscape Museum) created in 1914 by Antonio Massara, a teacher at the high school in Pallanza.

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Associazione Casa della Resistenza (Verbania)

Associazione Casa della Resistenza (Verbania)

The Casa della Resistenza (Resistance House) lies inside a 5.000 square metre park and is close to the memorial site where on 20th June 1944, the Nazi-Fascists massacred around forty partisans.

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Civico Museo Archeologico (Mergozzo)

Civico Museo Archeologico (Mergozzo)

This museum is divided into two sections: one is devoted to stone dressing, where we can find traditional work tools, as well as stone artefacts, pre-Roman and Roman epigraphs; while the second section is devoted to archaeology. In the latter are exhibited numerous finds ...

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Ecomuseo del Granito di Montorfano

Ecomuseo del Granito di Montorfano

Montofortano was modelled by the ice-age erosion and it is an enormous granite rock which formed from magma solidified inside a pre-existing earth crust during the Permian age. 

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Museo dell'Arte del Cappello (Ghiffa)

Museo dell'Arte del Cappello (Ghiffa)

This museum is situated inside the former Panizza hat factory, which was opened in 1861, and is divided into two rooms. In the first room the felting process is described through images and craft tools...

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