Chiesa dei Santi Gratiniano e Felino ★
A former abbey church of 979: a Bergognone altarpiece of 1488 and relics displayed every 13 March.
Arona: 3 places to start with
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Museums Colosso di san Carlo Borromeo A copper statue 35 metres tall, blessed in 1698: you can climb inside it, right up into the saint's head. -
Churches Chiesa dei Santi Gratiniano e Felino A former abbey church of 979: a Bergognone altarpiece of 1488 and relics displayed every 13 March. -
Castles Rocca di Arona Only fragments remain of the fortress where Carlo Borromeo was born in 1538, dismantled by the French in 1800.
6 places covered in Arona Grouped by type, most important first.
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Churches and places of worship
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Sacro monte di Arona
The Sacro Monte that was never finished: of fifteen planned chapels only three were built, and the colossus remained.
Chiesa di San Giuseppe
A church of 1204 with a surprise beneath the floor: a Gaulish burial ground and a Roman smelting furnace.
Castles, palaces and villas
2Rocca di Arona ★
Only fragments remain of the fortress where Carlo Borromeo was born in 1538, dismantled by the French in 1800.
Villa Cantoni
A nineteenth-century villa below the Rocca with frescoes by Giacomo Casa, left empty for decades after 1943.
Museums, theatres and collections
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Colosso di san Carlo Borromeo ★
A copper statue 35 metres tall, blessed in 1698: you can climb inside it, right up into the saint's head.
Tours, tickets and experiences
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