Patron saint festival In 255 days
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Malesco, a municipality of 1,465 inhabitants in the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, celebrates its patrons Saints Peter and Paul.
Malesco stands on a terrace where the Loana meets the Melezzo Orientale, the largest village in the Val Vigezzo. It faces north, backed by the wooded slope of Monte Group, so in winter part of the village never sees the sun. Since 1929 it has included Finero and Zornasco, until then separate comuni.
The parish church of Santi Pietro e Paolo split from Santa Maria Maggiore in the fourteenth century and took Baroque form in the eighteenth; its stone bell tower rises over the slab roofs. Towards the Rio Secco lies the Sasso della Lissera, an erratic boulder of soapstone: women with difficult pregnancies slid down its back, a rite credited with granting fertility.
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Insigne collegiata parrocchiale di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Guglionesi · 12 km Beneath the late Baroque, a 12th-century crypt with two surviving frescoes. Torre di Petacciato 📍 Petacciato · 12 km A coastal tower of 1568, split in two by a landslide in 1777. Old Termoli 📍 Termoli · 15 km A walled Adriatic promontory featuring an 11th-century castle, a Romanesque cathedral, and historic wooden trabucchi. chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Guardialfiera · 17 km A Holy Door that opens every year, except when it is a Jubilee. Riserva naturale regionale Marina di Vasto 📍 Vasto · 16 km Three kilometres of dunes and wetlands between Vasto and San Salvo, where the Kentish plover nests. cattedrale di Santa Maria della Purificazione 📍 Termoli · 19 km Dragons and griffins on the front, and a crypt with a Romanesque mosaic floor.