Bisuschio

The old village has grown around Villa Cicogna Mozzoni.
The Mozzoni family acquired a great deal of land in this area and lived here. In 1463 they built a lodge for the bear hunting, that caught the Milanese nobility on the Ceresio mounts. Between 1520 and 1550, the villa was enlarged and embellished to the present look. To conform the village to the villa's architectural structure, they bought all the houses of the village, razed them to the ground and rebuilt. In 1565 the Mozzoni also built San Giorgio's Church and give it to the inhabitants. When Angela Mozzoni married the count Gian Pietro Cicogna, in 1580 the Cicogna Mozzoni family began.

To see:

- Villa Cicogna Mozzoni, an elegant example of the late Lombardic Renaissance villa

- San Giorgio's Church, with an altar-frontal by Procaccini

- the Lazzaretto, dated 1746, outside the old village on a hill with a beautiful view

- S. Giuseppe's Church, the oldest one, in which some Longobard tomb have been discovered

-the Castellaccio, a six floor building with the dry masonry front face turned to the valley

- the Pogliana and its fine view on the Valceresio Valley and the Lake Lugano