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You are here: Germagno
Germagno is the first commune that you come across by climbing Strona Valley, with a detour for Canova del Vescovo (a hamlet of Omegna) at about 600 meters above sea level. Germagno`s history is very ancient: it plunges its roots in the Middle Ages and it is unavoidably related to Omegna’s events. As well as Omegna and the whole valley, it became part of Milan Dukedom, then Visconti’s feud, and it hardly imposed its cultural identity as a separate territory as regards the aforesaid lake town.Its history is more linked to the valley traditions than to those of Lake Orta.
Germagno is a starting point for many mountain trips even today: thanks to the commune and its inhabitant’s initiative, during the 1960s a consortium for the valorisation of mountain patrimony was set up. Today, Germagno’s Park - Alpe Quaggione is a management association of a inter-estate route linking the centre with the mountain pasture (over 110 meters above sea level) through Alpe Colla and Alpe Cardello. Equipped areas, pathways, paragliding and trekking, but most of all the rediscovery of a not much frequented valley that can offer the fascination of the mountain even today.
In the suburb, many are the testimonies of its time-honoured custom, first of all the architecture of ancient dwellings, with their façades adorned with superimposed arcades. It is an architectonical typology diffused in the whole Cusio area, and its better expression is just in Germagno with Cajascia, to cite something as an example.
Moreover, it’s impossible to forget the testimonies of time-honoured customs and traditions, such as the communal press, recently renovated and been called to Ecomuseo Cusius, a museum system that you can visit during town hall office hours.
Germagno, just a few minutes from Omegna, is really the direct passage from the lake to the mountains.