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It is placed in a large plain turned to Lake Maggiore and encircled by morainic hills on the opposite side. On the Bardello River that flows into Lake Maggiore there is an ancient mill, still working, at Piona.

It was certainly a castrum, but all the roman finds have been vanished. Also in the Middle Ages it was a village of such weight when the Milanese archbishops owned it and made it the chief parish.

When the Torriani overcame the Visconti family in 1263, the village was in decline and the seat of the parish was moved to Besozzo by San Carlo Borromeo in 1574.

To see:

- San Pietro and San Paolo's Church, built arount the 1100, it is one of the most interesting Romanesque buildings of the varesotto. It introduces a simple and elegant facade made with alternated large and regular hewn stones in serizzo, granite and stone of Angera disposed with refined chromatic effect. Inside there is a Crucifixtion dated 1368 with the Besozzi coat-arm on a side and some pieces of XIII century frescoes..

-the famous pipe factory

- the “laghetasch” wetland at the foothill of Motto Pivione