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You are here: Pogno
Pogno is situated at a height of 460 meters above sea level, between Gozzano and San Maurizio d’Opaglio, on the route to Borgosesia. Nowadays, it has about 1500 inhabitants.Historically, the country is related to the events of St. Jules Riviera, having been a possession of Novara`s Bishops, even though its origins date back to Roman Times. In 1928 Pogno, together with San Maurizio d’Opaglio and Pella, has been unified in a sole commune called Castelli Cusiani, and then it became independent again after the Second World War.
The Parish Church of Pogno, consecrated to St. Peter and St. Paul, dates back to 1328. The church lies in a high position, although downhill as regards the built-up area, and it can be reached through an avenue and a flight of steps that leads to the protiro with three arches supported by double granite pillars. The hut façade is put beside the stony bell, rebuilt in 1751. Dated back to the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries are the majority of the readaptations of the church, whose three-aisles interior conserves a valuable baptistery with a serpentine balustrade: the stony christening font dates back to 1583.
Today Pogno is also known as a part of “Paesi dipinti” (the painted villages”), since 2005: it is an association of Italian localities that show their frescoed walls to the world, even created by unknown painters. Pogno “murales” has the water as a theme, one of the vital elements of the human being and also one of the elements of Pogno and the entire area development, involved in the expansion of the taps and fillings industry.
Pogno’s works extol the water as a source of life and entertainment for those who seek it as a tourist destination, but also to the fountains, taps and fillings and the bathtub.
Just an opportunity to see Pogno old town centre, full of history and noble XVIIth and XVIIIth century buildings.
Pogno also includes Prerro and Berzonno hamlets, two suburbs that, in the past, were connected to an agriculture and breeding-based economy and that, at the beginning of the XXth century, met first with a craftsmanlike development and then with an industrial one related to taps and fittings industry, without ruining the charming features of a typical Cusio`s small village.