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Colmegna, administratively municipality of Luino, is a small place positioned between this last one and Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca.

Luino is situated between Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca and Germignaga, in the ample plan to the result of the Valtravaglia. It is surely the most important town of the Lombardy coast, already quoted by the illustrious Hemingway in the famous one "Goodbye to the weapons". Historically it was very animate, it was interesting the intervention of Garibaldi on 15 th August 1848 against the Austrians that checked the zone and the births the poet Vittorio Sereni and the narrator Piero Chiara. Historically it was very animate, it is to remember the intervention of Garibaldi of August 15 th 1848 against the Austrians, that checked the zone and the births the poet Vittorio Sereni and the narrator Peter Chiara.The town is important by all the points of view, from the industrial to the commercial with Switzerland, to the tourism with a splendid lake-front with mighty platans, shops and characteristic Renaissance buildings and baroques, that delimit the old public port. You can visit the Madonna del Carmine's church of the Four hundred and the eighteenth-century private chapel of the Serbelloni and the adjacent Building Serbelloni. Important the market's appointment every Wednesday that attracts the public from Varese's Province, from the whole Verbano and from Switzerland, that it repeats every week from the XVI century.