Sacro Monte di Varese
The Sacro Monte di Varese is one of the nine sacri monti in the Italian regions of Lombardy and Piedmont which were inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 2003. It has an altitude of 807 metres above sea level.Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Casa Museo Lodovico Pogliaghi and Stadio Franco Ossola.
Casa Museo Lodovico Pogliaghi
Museum
Photo: Phyrexian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Casa Museo Lodovico Pogliaghi is a museum.
Stadio Franco Ossola
Stadium
Photo: Admaiora, Public domain.
The Stadio Franco Ossola is a sports stadium and velodrome currently in use by the football team Varese FC. Constructed in 1925, and originally named the Stadio del Littorio, the stadium was renamed in September 1950 in memory of Franco Ossola, an Italian from Varese and player for Torino F.C. who died in 1949 in the Superga air disaster.
Monte Chiusarella
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Phyrexian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Monte Chiusarella is a mountain of Lombardy, Italy, with an elevation of 913 metres. It is located in the Varese Prealps, in the Province of Varese, within the nature reserve of Campo dei Fiori.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gavirate and Induno Olona.
Gavirate
Photo: Proloco Gavirate, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gavirate is a comune in the province of Varese, in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 60 kilometres northwest of Milan and about 10 kilometres northwest of Varese.
Induno Olona
Town
Photo: Torsade de Pointes, CC0.
Induno Olona is a town and comune in Italy, in north-western Lombardy, 60 kilometres north of Milan, in the Province of Varese. It had a population, in 2021, of c. 10,287.
Valganna
Village
Photo: unhappy by design, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Valganna is a comune within the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 km northwest of Milan and about 13 km north of Varese.
Sacro Monte di Varese
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 880 metres
- Description: tourist attraction
- Categories: tourist attraction, calvary, sacred place, architectural ensemble, and landform
- Location: Varese, Varese, Lombardy, Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
45.8617° or 45° 51′ 42″ northLongitude
8.7925° or 8° 47′ 33″ eastElevation
880 metres (2,887 feet)Open location code
8FQCVQ6R+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 465507417OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q1224490
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Sacro Monte di Varese” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “瓦雷泽圣山”
- Dutch: “Sacro Monte di Varese”
- French: “Mont Sacré de Varèse”
- French: “Sacro Monte di Varese”
- German: “Sacro Monte di Varese”
- Italian: “Sacro Monte di Varese”
- Italian: “santuario di Santa Maria del Monte”
- Latin: “Baretii Sacer Mons”
- Lombard: “Sacher Mont de Vares”
- Malay: “Gunung Suci Varese”
- Malay: “Sacro Monte di Varese”
- Russian: “Сакро-Монте-ди-Варезе”
- Russian: “Сакро-Монте-ди-Варесе”
- Spanish: “Sacro Monte del Rosario”
- Spanish: “Sacro Monte di Varese”
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