Latitude: 46° 4' N |
Longitude: 8° 42' E |
Altitude: 214 m s.l.m. |
Inhabitants: 5.162 |
Cannobio is situated just before the border with Switzerland and this makes it, thanks also to the favorable climate and the beauty of the landscape, one of the coast center more frequented by the international tourism. The town has maintained unchanged the paved streets of ancient stones, infact numerous traces of Roman epoch are found, medioeval and of the eight hundred. Interesting the Building of the Reason of the XII century and the Tower of the town, the fifteenth-century Pironi's house, the sixteenth-century Sanctuary on the lake and the collegiate of san Vittore of the Seven hundred. Fascinating the Five hundred-six hundred buildings series that they lean out on the lake-front. Thank to the constant presence of wind, the town has become destination of the apprentices of sail sport. Among the various demonstrations, suggestive it is the "Lumineri party" on the 7th and 8th of January to commemorate the miracle of the Pity. Interesting the Sunday market that develops it the whole year on the lake-front.