Besozzo

Besozzo is an Italian town of 9,027 inhabitants in the province of Varese in Lombardy. Set among the hills that stretch between Lake Varese and Verbano, Besozzo is crossed by the Bardello River. Located in the center of ancient routes that descended from the Alpine passes towards the Lombard plain, Besozzo is already known in Roman times, and in the Middle Ages belonged to the Pievan territory of Brebbia. The ancient nucleus of the town, in the upper part of the village dominating the course of the Bardello, was soon fortified to control traffic and the passage of roads in the river valley below.

Even today the appearance of Besozzo Superiore is given by the various buildings inhabited in the middle Ages and the Renaissance by the noble families of Besozzi and Castelbesozzo, natives of the place and branches of the same ancient family, who played an important role in the political and economic landscape of the whole plagues for several centuries. Not to be forgotten, in the territorial framework of the Municipality, the inhabited centers of the hamlets of Bogno, Cardana and Olginasio, which maintain autonomous and characteristic urban features.