Arcisate

It is placed at the foot of Mount Sasso della Corna (994 mt.) on which top there is a St. Bernard statue.

The Roman finds sold to the London British Museum in 1900 are famous and called 'tesoro di Arcisate' (the Arcisate Treasure): a jug (oinochoe), a two-handled cup (the handles now missing), a strainer, a ladle (simpulum), and a stirrer (spatula) together form a set for the mixing and serving of wine, either at table or as part of a religious ceremony. The jug has a dotted inscription on the base 'Utia daughter of Titus' and the swan-headed ladle bears the inscription 'This ladle, the property of Titus Utius, son of Vibius, weighs three pounds, four ounces'. The Utii family may have been relatively new immigrants to northern Italy, perhaps forming part of the large settlement of 3,000 colonists founded in Comum (modern Como) in 89 B.C.

In Roman Times, Arcisate was certainly a famous industrial and working place. In 102 B.C., when Caio Mario was in war against the Cimbri the Velmaio area (Vel Marius, Mario's field) became the base of the Roman legions.

In the Middle Ages, Bisuschio, Clivio, Induno Olona, Ligurno, Brusimpiano, Brenno took part of the Arcisate Parish that had in San Vittore its chief parish church.

To see:

- San Vittore's Church , built in 1563 on the foundations of a XI century Roman building from which is the bell tower

- San Giovanni's Baptistery, VIII century

- S. Francesco da Paola's Church (the isolation hospital, il Lazzaretto), XVIII century, that is linked to the village by a via Crucis

- Madonna d'Useria's Sanctuary, a Brenno, rebuilt on the XVII century

· S.Antonio Abate's Church, rebuilt in 1743 on the foundations of a 1643 building, with a 1773 valuable fresco of the Holy Family

· Oratorio dell'Addolorata, at Useria, made in 1836 on a 16th century chapel

- Chiesetta dei Re Magi, on the road to Velmaio