Madonna del Sasso
Madonna del Sasso is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 100 kilometres northeast of Turin and about 20 kilometres southwest of Verbania, just to the west of Lake Orta.Places of Interest
Highlights include Basilica di San Giulio and Sanctuary of Madonna del Sasso.
Basilica di San Giulio
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Basilica di San Giulio is a Roman Catholic church on the small San Giulio Island in the center of Lake Orta, province of Novara, north-western Italy.
Sanctuary of Madonna del Sasso
Church
Photo: 66colpi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Madonna del Sasso sanctuary is on a spur over the Lake Orta at 638 m height, in the Madonna del Sasso municipality. From the square in front of the church, called "the Cusio's balcony", there is a great view on the lake, the Mottarone, the Alps and the Novara area.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Breia and Centonara.
Breia
Village
Photo: Papozza, Public domain.
Breia is a frazione of Cellio con Breia in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 90 km northeast of Turin and about 50 km north of Vercelli. Breia is situated 6 km southwest of Madonna del Sasso.
Madonna del Sasso
- Type: Locality with 405 residents
- Also known as: “103040”
- Location: Verbania, Piedmont, Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
45.7922° or 45° 47′ 32″ northLongitude
8.3695° or 8° 22′ 10″ eastPopulation
405Elevation
685 metres (2,247 feet)Open location code
8FQCQ9R9+VRGeoNames ID
6542826
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Madonna del Sasso” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Մադոնա դել Սասո”
- Belarusian: “Мадонна-дэль-Саса”
- Chinese: “马东纳德尔萨索”
- Italian: “Comune di Madonna del Sasso”
- Italian: “Madonna del Sasso”
- Japanese: “マドンナ・デル・サッソ”
- Kazakh: “Мадонна-дель-Сассо”
- Latin: “Domina Nostra Saxi”
- Lombard: “Bulèj”
- Piemontese: “Bolèj”
- Russian: “Мадонна-дель-Сассо”
- Ukrainian: “Мадонна-дель-Сассо”
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