Itineraries From the Park all around

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The itineraries From the Park all around originate from the strong link the Lagoni natural Park has with the surronding territory.
The park area has always been inhabited by ancient peoples, who built there their huts and their houses. Even when they left their dwellings for historical reasons they went on tending to woods, fields, vineyards, fruit orchards, pastures, moors, bogs. With its function as a laboratory for the environment, today the park is the green heart of its territory. To better know the park it is necessary to learn about its surronding towns. This is why the itineraries leading to the cities and villages below were created.

Places of interest

• Arona. Since the bronze Age it has been the most strategic point of the lower Verbano with its fortress (the Rocca), but it also acquired economic importance in more recent periods because of its port and urban dimension, Many artifacts from Lagoni are exibited in Arona's Archeological Museum.
  
  
• Mercurago. The rural economy of the village was equally connected to forestry and to cultures axisting in the Park's territory. There, peat extraction acquired importance during the 19^th century.
  
  
• Dormello. It was the closest village to the Park, where its woods and pastures lay. There are roman findings which connect the territory of Dormello with the roman artifacts found in the Park.
  
  
• Dormelletto. Like Dormello, it owned vineyard, field and woods in the present perimeter of the park. A rural Gallic community lived at the foot of its hill from the 3^rd century BC to the 1^st century BC.
  
  
• Comignago. In the historical age its mills were located in the Rese valley, on the western sideof the Park. During the Roman period on the western moraines of the Lagone rose small rural communities similar and connected to those of Comignago.
  
  
• Gattico. Two millennia ago park inhabitants tilled the Gattico lands in the Rese valley. Later, anyway, extensive farming concentrated on the lands inside the park, as in the case with Muggiano Farm.
  
  
• Paruzzaro. Although not on the actual Park borders, it was of the utmost importance for nearby cities because of its strongholds of Borgo Agnello and Paruzzaro Castle.
  
  
• Oleggio Castello. Its proprieties included fertile flat land inside the park with meadows, fields and vieyards. Roadways to Mercurago crossed the Park in the past time.
  
  

Info

Information provided by GASMA (Arona's Archeological, Historical, Mineralogical Group)
For guided tours please contact Associazione ProntoGuide

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Last updated: July 30th 2004