The commune joins two villages long kept apart: Bannio, for centuries the administrative head of the Anzasca valley, and Anzino, across the Olocchia stream, its own commune until 1929. The coat of arms is halved: on one side the soldier of the Militia of the Madonna of Bannio, in uniform, sword in hand; on the other the church of Sant'Antonio in Anzino, on a green field.
That church changed jobs: born as the oratory of San Bernardo of Menthon, parish church from 1640, then a sanctuary when, in 1669, an altarpiece arrived showing the Christ Child appearing to Saint Anthony of Padua. It was called miraculous at once, and pilgrims came.
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📅 Every year, on 13 June and the following Sunday in Anzino; on 5 August Our Lady of the Snow in Bannio
Bannio Anzino, a municipality of 518 inhabitants in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, celebrates Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Bernard of Menthon in Anzino on 13 June and Our Lady of the Snow in Bannio on 5 August, with the Milizia Tradizionale.
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Outside Bannio Anzino, but an easy day trip away.
