Breakfast at hotel. Departure with the “Vigezzina-Centovalli” train, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the Ossola Valley. Stop in Santa Maria Maggiore, the main center of what is also known as the Valley of the Painters or Valley of the Chimney Sweeps. Visit to the village and the Chimney Sweep Museum. The profession of the chimney sweep had its origins in the 14th century and was practiced until the middle of the last century. The young rusca (chimney sweepers), hired when they were still thin and able to climb into the chimneys to clean them, spent the cold winters far from their homes. families, always dirty with soot.
Lunch in restaurant
In the afternoon free time or time available to search for ancestors' documents in the archives and visit places of memory for Italian descendants with origins in the area.
Return to Domodossola in the evening and walk to discover the town, the hub of a border land, a crossroads of cultures and trade; the heart of the most authentic Ossola, a place full of ideas, in the center of the seven Ossola valleys. Dinner and overnight stay in the hotel