Cadegliano Viconago

Placed on the slopes of the Mount Mezzano, the Municipality is formed by the hamlets of Cadegliano, Viconago, Arbizzo, Argentera, Avigno, Doneda and Gaggio. Settled into a green open hollow turned to the Lake Lugano it enjoys a fine view on the Swiss pre-Alps. Many villas with luxuriant gardens have been built at the end of the 18th century as resort houses, such as Villa Pellini, Villa Menotti Alfonso, Villa Pellini Pellegatta, Casa Righini, Villa Menotti and Villa Scolari.

Viconago is the oldest hamlet and preserves the Church of San Antonio Abate, with a lintel portal on which there are three carved Longobard crosses and some precious frescoes by Bartolomeo from Ponte Tresa dated 1531. In the town centre there is the medieval building 'Casa Andina" dates back to XI-XII century. In the Church of San Giovanni Battista, there is a valuable marble altar made by the sculptor Giuseppe Rosnati and saved from the demolition of a Milanese church.

At Avigno there is one of the finest Romanesque bell tower of the varesotto. Close to the bell tower there is the Church of San Fedele and Beata Vergine del Carmine.

At Doneda, linked to Viconago by a stairway, there is a medieval court named in a 1196 document. The Church of San Fedele and San Silvestro, at Ardizzo, was built in 1699 and preserves a XVI century painting of the Beata Vergine della Misericordia.

At Argentera there was an old lead and silver mine at work since XIII century.