The double name recalls two villages of the Valle Anzasca, Vanzone and San Carlo d'Ossola, made into one comune in 1875. The main one was called Avanzone, or Vantionum, and a legend explains the name: the epidemics had always gone past it, overtaken it. When the Spanish flu took lives in the villages nearby in 1920, Vanzone reported no deaths.
At Battiggio stands a tower of river cobbles, its corners built of squared blocks: nobody knows when it was built, or why. It is also called the Cani tower, and tradition holds that the treasure of Facino Cane's family was kept there; he worked the valley's gold mines and struck coin. Its four floors now hold an ecomuseum.
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📅 Every year, on 25 November
On 25 November Vanzone con San Carlo, a municipality of 435 inhabitants in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, celebrates its patroness Santa Caterina d'Alessandria.
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Outside Vanzone con San Carlo, but an easy day trip away.
