Cavaria con Premezzo

Cavaria is on the hill while Premezzo is along the highway Milano - Laghi.

In Cavaria there was a convent of Benedictine nuns, dedicated to the SS. Quirico and Giulitta. As the jurisdiction of this lands was up to the nuns, Cavaria and the surroundings were never enfeoffed, not even after the ruin of Castelseprio and the advent of the Visconti. The convent has been closed in the 1568 by San Carlo Borromeo after he has assessed as the nuns (the greater part of which belonged to noble families, like Visconti, Besozzi, Boxwoods) lead a licentious life and the lands sold to Cardinal Gallio of Como. The church of the convent became the parish church of Cavaria.

In 1887 the first factory of balances rose in Cavaria, from which the fame of 'capital of weights and measures' to the small industrial village.

Premezzo is named Premecio in a parchment dated 976 A.C. conserved in the Archivio Capitolare di Novara. Beside the church of San Antonino, datable to 1200, is preserved a frescoe about the Adoration of the Magi with a figure of the Saint on a side.