Patron saint festival In 30 days
Feast of Saint Brice
📅 Every year, on 13 November
On 13 November Cossogno celebrates its patron Saint Brice, to whom the parish church is dedicated.
Cossogno holds an almost wholly mountainous territory that runs into the Val Grande National Park; its innermost part is the Pedum integral nature reserve. The first documents naming it come from the middle of the twelfth century and record a community with its own church of San Brizio; for centuries the village lay under the lordship of the Moriggia.
What it is remembered for is recent instead: in 1892 the industrialist Carlo Sutermeister had the world's first commercial alternating-current power line built between Cossogno and Intra, to a design by Galileo Ferraris, and it still works. In 2018 a referendum on merging with Verbania fell short of the quorum.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Cossogno, but an easy day trip away.
Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.