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Things to do in Dumenza Italy – what to see attractions and activities

Welcome to Dumenza Italy. If you’are planning to visit Dumenza for your next trip and you are looking for the best places to visit, here you’ll find tips and suggestions of most popular point of interest and activities not to be missed in Dumenza and surrounding. Travelers will appreciate this italian town with his rich historical and artistic heritage, local culture and environment. Discover the monuments, buildings, natural treasures and all the details that characterize Dumenza and its territory. Share and suggest a place you've visited.

What To See near Dumenza

Luino (4 Km)

Villa Hüssy

The villa that houses the Civic Library of Luino and the Vittorio Sereni Archive is the result of structural and decorative interventions that have occurred over the years, accompanied by the change of ownership of the same in different hands.

Luino (5 Km)

Museo Ferroviario del Verbano

The Verbano Railway Museum is located in the old nineteenth-century garage of the locomotives of Luino. To make the Museum valuable is an impressive German locomotive BR 50 3673 built by the Borsig workshops in 1941, still working today. In addition, events and initiatives are organized periodically, such as vintage trips to Switzerland by the Verbano Express Association.

Luino (5 Km)

Museo Civico

The Paleontological Civic Archaeological Museum was founded in 1977. It is located in the beautiful Palazzo Verbania. It was established by the will of Pietro Astini. The Museum consists of a picture gallery, an archaeological section and a vast collection of fossils and minerals, all found in the area. School groups can make guided tours upon reservation.

Mesenzana (8 Km)

Torre degli Ariani

The Tower of the Arians is a structure of ancient origins. It is thought to date back to medieval times and its purpose was to defend and protect. The construction was kept in good condition. It is close to the town and is surrounded by lots of vegetation.

Brusimpiano (11 Km)

Santa Maria Nascente

Valganna (13 Km)

Badia di Ganna

It was founded in the 12th century by Benedictine monks in a convergent territory of various valleys: Valganna, Valcuvia and Valmarchirolo. For centuries it has been a safe haven for pilgrims who traveled from the nearby Canton of Ticino and Central Europe to the south and vice versa. The Abbey was built around the original nucleus of the church established for the worship of the Martyr San Gemolo

Casalzuigno (14 Km)

Villa Della Porta Bozzolo

Villa Della Porta Bozzolo was built in the second half of the 16th century, at the behest of the notary Giroldino Della Porta. The intent was to build a stately home for him and his family. During the 18th century, an Italian garden with fountains and a beautifully frescoed newsstand was added. After becoming the property of the Carpani, the Richini and the Bozzolo, the structure was finally donated to the FAI.

Porto Ceresio (16 Km)

Passeggiata a lago

The promenade allows you to walk along the lakefront ensuring a panoramic and breathtaking view of the entire Gulf of Ceresio. In summer in the evening it is often animated by a lively market.

Varese (16 Km)

Villa Panza

Villa Panza is known for its contemporary art collection. Surrounded by a magnificent Italian garden, it was built in the middle of the 18th century by the will of the Marquis Paolo Antonio Menafoglio. In the salons and large stables, more than one hundred works by contemporary artists are exhibited today, as well as rich furnishings from the period ranging from the 16th to the 19th century and to an important collection of African art and pre-Columbian.

Besano (16 Km)

Museo Civico dei Fossili

Bisuschio (17 Km)

Villa Cicogna-Mozzoni

Varese (17 Km)

Parco regionale Campo dei Fiori

The park dominates the hilly area of the city of Varese, and includes two massifs, the Massif of Mount Martica and the Campo dei Fiori Massif. It is part of the Varese Prealps chain, and has slopes dominated by deciduous forests such as beech and chestnut trees and many animal species including the two majestic ungulates, the deer and the roe deer, as well as foxes, hares and red squirrels.

Varese (18 Km)

Sacro Monte

The Sacro Monte of Varese, with its 14 Chapels that wind along a cobblestone of about 2 km, is undoubtedly the most fascinating Marian itinerary in the world.

Laveno Mombello (18 Km)

Villa De Angeli-Frua

Laveno Mombello (18 Km)

Ex Palazzo Comunale

The Presepe Verghiano is the unique theatrical event worldwide that narrates the story of the Nativity within the Verga universe, where the various characters of the operas Cavalleria Rusticana, La Lupa, L’Amante di Gramigna, Storia di una Capinera, Nedda, Mazzarò, I Malavoglia, Jeli il Pastore will be the protagonists of this surreal journey of the faithful in their homage for the newborn Jesus.

Varese (18 Km)

Le Grotte della Valganna

The Valganna Caves are caves of karst origin and are located in the territory of Induno Olona. These caves are among the best known in the area. They are the karst product of the Margorabbia River, which disappears in Cunardo under a system of caves.

Induno Olona (19 Km)

Civico Museo Insubrico di Storia Naturale

Collections of minerals and fossils are exhibited in the museum. There are about 6,700 finds, including minerals and fossils of fish, vegetables, crustaceans, reptiles found. The three specimens of Lariosaurus Valceresii and the Cave Bear dating back about 215 million years ago are also very important. In addition, there are also two other sections with 700 taxidermised animals from locally sourced and a photographic archive of 8000 slides.

Viggiu' (19 Km)

Museo "Enrico Butti"

The “Enrico Butti” Museum was founded in 1927. A year earlier, Butti decided to donate to the City Council its gipsotheque of contemporary art. Here it is possible to observe sculptures, including 87 plaster models and some paintings. Between 2002 and 2004, the structure was adjusted to accommodate all the objects present.

Induno Olona (19 Km)

Chiesa di San Bernardino

The Church of San Bernardino was built in 1567 in honor of the Saint. Inside the rooms have a rectangular shape and are made of marble. On the altar there are frescoes in which the 'Adoration of the Shepherds' and the 'Nativity of Maria' are represented.

Varese (20 Km)

Villa Toeplitz

The Villa, built in 1901, takes its name from the Polish banker Giuseppe Toeplitz, who bought it in 1914. In 1972 the property was acquired by the Municipality of Varese, who decided to open the park to the public. Today the park covers an area of about four hectares, characterized by an original architecture of driveways embellished with numerous varieties of exotic species and rejoiced by water features.

Other attractions in Dumenza

Museums

Museo della Badia di S. Gemolo

It was built in the fourteenth century, during construction a spring opened that housed bright red stones. From this came the rumor that was the broken head of the martyr San Gemolo to color the waters red. The chapel is located about two km from the Abbey. For centuries it was a place of pilgrimage on the part of the inhabitants of the valley.

Churches and places of worship

La Cappella di San Gemolo

Are you looking for other ideas for sleeping in Dumenza?

Albergo Ristorante Bologna

Varese (22 Km) - Via Broggi, 7 Angolo Via Veratti

e-mail www +39332234362

The Hotel is located in the historic center of Varese, is part of an antique monastic complex of 1550, called convento S. Antonio. The management during the last 40 years was made from family Lorenzini which take care of creating a family atmosphere.

RESIDENZA ORTENSIA

Luino (2 Km) - Via Paolo Berra 8

e-mail www +39332510855

ALBERGO PARADISO

Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca (5 Km) - Via Verdi Maccagno Superiore 5

e-mail www +39332.560.128

B&B Da Pio

Castelveccana (12 Km) - Via Martiri Zampori 6

e-mail www +39332.520511

Palazzo Ronchelli

Castello Cabiaglio (14 Km) - Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 10

e-mail www +393391523797

The guests of Building Ronchelli will feel the emotion of living in the past. The beautiful building, that is still under restoration works, belonged to the wife of the painter Giovan Battista Ronchelli (1715/1788), whose frescoes can be seen in Palazzo Estense, Villa Recalcati, Villa della Porta Bozzolo. It maintains the refined atmosphere and harmony typical of the ancient manors of the 17th an 18th centuries in Lombardy.