Brusimpiano

Placed on a headland on the shore of Lake Lugano, it has on its back Mount Castelletto with the hamlet of Ardena. And just out Ardena it's the road linking to Marzio and the Valganna Valley.

Celtic tombs (V-II century B.C.) have been discovered in the upstream hamlets and at also Val Leura hamlet has been discovered a necropolis of Roman Times.

At Castelletto there was probably an ancient fortification made by the Insubri, and restored as castrum by the Romans. It was destroyed by the Milanese in 1249 and someone thinks that its foundations have been used to build the Cadorna Line, the military fortifications built at the beginning of this century to defend this part of Italy from a possible Austrian invasion through Switzerland.

Some houses of the old nucleus are frescoed with sacred paintings to witness the disaster that affected the village.

To see :

- the XVII century houses

- Madonna dell'Annunciazione's Sanctuary, linked to Brusimpiano by a via Crucis. In the cave close to the sanctuary lived Father Francesco Coglio (1629-1692) as hermit.

- Santa Maria Nascente's Church with frescoes of the Luini times

- San Martino's longobard church