Travelers heading to Milan by train via the Simplon route this summer will need patience as construction work in northern Italy is causing longer journey times and reduced rail service Temporary bus replacements will be in place Write to us if you have any comments on this article or would like to report an error rail journeys via the Simplon axis to Milan will take significantly longer this summer travelers from Switzerland will need to transfer to replacement buses in Domodossola the railway line between the Piedmontese towns of Arona and Premosello will be fully closed during these two periods the shift from trains to buses on this section will reduce the number of available seats SBB and the Italian railway company Trenitalia are providing additional bus services from Geneva to Milan via Martigny The online timetable will also show alternative routes for rail travel to Italy such as those via Zurich and the Gotthard Pass travelers should expect travel times to be extended by at least one hour the work between Domodossola and Milan will also have further impacts only three Eurocity trains per direction will run between Basel and Milan during the week throughout the year The same applies to the connections from Geneva via Brig to Milan there will be four trains per direction on both routes the construction will expand the four-meter corridor between Domodossola and Milan—a project aimed at enhancing transalpine freight traffic Please enable JavaScript to see this content.Need help? Enable JavaScript in our browser Serving the tunnelling industry since 1969 The works include renovation of the eastern tube of the Simplon tunnel over the entire length along with parts of the vault and drainage optimisation which will restrict passenger and freight trains through the Alps Swiss Federal Railways announced that the renovation of the Simplon Tunnel between Valais in southwest Switzerland and Italy will be carried out over the next four years According to a joint statement by the Swiss Federal Railways and BLS the first construction stage is expected to start in February and end by July this year BLS (Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway) is a Swiss railway company that operates regional and long-distance rail services in central and western Switzerland The car loading trains between Brig in Valais and Iselle in Italy are planned to run every two hours the majority of RegioExpress trains between Brig and Domodossola will run every two hours the eastern tube of the Simplon tunnel needs renovation over the entire length along with parts of the vault and drainage optimisation works The works are planned for every year between 2025 and 2028 coordinated with the work in other Swiss tunnels allowing minimum passenger and freight trains through the Alps said: “Travellers are kindly requested to consult the online timetable Freight transport is affected by the construction work as the important four-metre corridor in the Simplon Tunnel is severely limited.” including the four-metre corridor between Domodossola and Milano is being expanded to benefit transalpine freight traffic The railway line between Domodossola and Milan will be completely closed from 8 June to 27 July and from 31 August to 12 September All EuroCity trains between Domodossola and Milan will be cancelled, and a replacement concept with buses is being developed, said the Swiss Federal Railways Instead of four EuroCity trains in each direction only three will run between Basel-Bern-Milan and Geneva-Brig-Milan during the week all year round the ongoing maintenance works at the Simplon axis will further impact services leading to a long-term reduction in capacity over several years Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the Progressive Media network © Business Trade Media International Limited This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page By 2025-02-13T11:00:00+00:00 EUROPE: CargoBeamer has raised up to €65m in a combination of equity and debt financing from Orion Infrastructure Capital to support the growth of its activities which enable the transport of non-craneable semi-trailers by rail Last year it secured €50m from existing shareholder Nordwind Ventures and €90m in grants from the German and Swiss governments to support growth The €205m of funding will support the construction of terminal facilities at Kaldenkirchen in Germany and Domodossola in northern Italy by 2026 adding to its existing terminal at Calais in France CargoBeamer is aiming to develop a network of 18 terminals and 50 routes over the next 10 years and estimates the addressable market of mid- and long-distance road transport in Europe could be worth around €88bn by 2032 ‘CargoBeamer’s proprietary technology will be instrumental to enabling the road to rail freight transition which aligns with our objective to build cost-advantaged logistics solutions that also enhance decarbonisation efforts’ Investment Partner & Head of Infra Growth at OIC ‘We are confident that CargoBeamer will drive the modal shift to rail in Europe with its two extremely innovative new intermodal terminals.’ Ancoris Capital Partners acted as the exclusive financial adviser to CargoBeamer With semi-trailers accounting for a majority of Europe’s road freight transport policymakers must provide the right incentives to ensure that they can be used for intermodal applications if long-standing modal shift targets are to be achieved GERMANY: The Digital Inspection by Machine Intelligence project has been launched to automate and accelerate the manual wagon inspection process which need to be undertaken before an intermodal train can leave a terminal EUROPE: CargoBeamer has received public and private sector funding commitments of €140m to support expansion of its network of facilities for transporting semi-trailers by rail Privately owned CargoBeamer is aiming to develop a network of 18 terminals and 50 routes over next 10 years Site powered by Webvision Cloud The “Gian Giacomo Galletti” Civic Museums of Domodossola will host a new exhibition entitled The Times of Beauty from July 18 Guido Reni and Magritte at the Palazzo San Francesco Museum and realized thanks to the City of Domodossola in partnership with the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan and the Angela Paola Ruminelli Foundation under the patronage of the Piedmont Region this exhibition explores the evolution of the concept of beauty through the centuries highlighting the constant reference to the formal and spiritual models and values of classicism On display are works by great masters such as Rubens classical statues from the Roman era from the Roman National Museum and the Baths of Diocletian will be exhibited in Domodossola.It was Giacomo Leopardi who identified the “time of the beautiful” in 5th-century B.C Myron and Polyclitus embodied the concept of kalokagathìa a balance between aesthetic and ethical values aim to testify how this quest for formal and spiritual beauty has spanned art history Among the most significant works are Guido Reni ’sAnnunciation from the Pinacoteca Civica in Ascoli Piceno and Ludovico Carracci ’s Saint Sebastian from the Ettore Pomarici Santomasi Foundation in Gravina di Puglia The formal elegance of the Virgin and the angel in the imposing altarpiece and the sculptural twisting of the bust in the young saint testify to how in seventeenth-century Bologna knowledge of classical statuary and the myth of Raphael found a perfect declination in line with the culture of the time This is a legacy that Guido Reni picks up from the Carracci The exhibition also offers a look at the reinterpretation of classicism by artists such as Pieter Paul Rubens who adapted classical sculptural models to the iconographic demands of the Baroque (a sketch of his Madonna of the Rosary is on display) Antonio Canova’s Portrait of Pauline Bonaparte by Antonio Canova depicts the perfect face of Napoleon’s sister as Venus Vincitrice an example of how the celebration of the past and the use of themes from classical mythology are placed taking on celebratory and educational intentions The eclectic imprint that characterizes Italian art in the post-unification period does not exclude either in the architectural field or in the figurative sphere episodes of marked reference to the Greco-Roman tradition: this is demonstrated by the Genoese sculptor Demetrio Paernio author of numerous funerary monuments in the Staglieno cemetery who celebrates Alexandrian art by modeling one of the most prissy figures of classicism The subject changes but not the formulation of the inspired image in Genoese artist Domenico Piola ’s painting of the Child Jesus asleep on the Cross The exhibition concludes with a focus on the early decades of the 20th century called for a "Return to Order" after the traumas of World War I displayed in dialogue with Renaissance and classical ones reaffirm the eternal value of classical beauty The exhibition layout was designed by Studio Lys The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog published by Sagep Editori d’Arte Wanted in MilanMembership a slow travel experience through the stunning autumn landscapes of northern Italy and Switzerland runs from 12 October until 17 November 2024 The two-hour train journey on the Vigezzina-Centovalli railway travels along a historic narrow-gauge line that runs between Domodossola in Italy's Piemonte region The train winds its way through the picturesque Vigezzo Valley and the "Hundred Valleys" (Centovalli) offering breathtaking views of forests ablaze with autumnal hues which sees the train trundle across 83 bridges and through 34 tunnels is included in the 10 most spectacular railway lines in Europe by travel guide Lonely Planet Tickets for the Treno del Foliage cost €40 at weekends and €36 during the week Children and young people aged between six and 16 years pay half price while kids under six travel free of charge if they do not occupy a seat For full travel details see the Vigezzina-Centovalli website Wanted in Milan ™ is member of the Wanted World Wide Ltd network.Click here to find out more about our Network or Follow us on social networks © 2025 / 2026 Wanted World Wide LTD Network Nature and Mystery is the exhibition organized by Collezione Poscio in the exhibition space of Casa De Rodis from May 26 to October 26 investigates the figure of painter Lorenzo Peretti (Buttogno The exhibition includes about eighty works and traces the short life of this singular artist The exhibition presents all of his major works including the visionary Bosco dei druidi (Forest of the Druids) his most important pointillist landscapes of the Vigezzo Valley anticipatory non-finished paintings of the early 20th century.On display are a Vigezzo peasant painted by both Cavalli and Fornara and Peretti Fornara himself and Arturo Tosi make up the second section of the exhibition Also documented are the artist’s trip to Lyon in 1893-94 and the works that just followed a touching human document in which Peretti reconciles with his deceased father Peretti’s irregular and tension-filled pointillism is then analyzed the greatest examples of which are exhibited Ample space is devoted to his recently found Philosophical Testament a document of his desire to reconcile Christianity with theosophy which is a central aspect of his personality nature is a reflection of the infinite and there is nothing in the world that is not a reverberation of God the exhibition concludes with an anthology of his unfinished works including Undergrowth and the important Paris The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog published by SAGEP with an analytical text by Elena Pontiggia and an essay by Davide Brullo Lorenzo Peretti Jr (Buttogno 1871-Toceno 1953) was born into a family of artists His grandfather Lorenzo (1774-1851) was called “the Raphael of the Vigezzo Valley.” His father but countered his son’s artistic vocation when he died leaving him a substantial inheritance that young Lorenzo could devote himself to painting In 1890-92 he studied with Carlo Giuseppe Cavalli and especially with Enrico Cavalli at the Rossetti Valentini school in S where he had for a companion Carlo Fornara In 1892 he saw Fontanesi’s exhibition in Turin he made a trip with Fornara and Enrico Cavalli to Lyon where he studied the material painting of Monticelli and French painting from Delacroix and Courbet to the Impressionists At the end of 1894 he became interested in pointillism but in 1896 he rejected Morbelli and Pellizza da Volpedo’s proposal to exhibit with the pointillists the following year he approaches symbolism and paints a nature inhabited by visions (The Spirits of Evil; The Forest of the Druids At the beginning of the new century he probably stopped painting In 1902 he published in “L’Indipendente” Fornara’s article Dell’Arte nella società dividing his time between the capital and nearby Montrouge In 1910 he became editor of the “Popolo dell’Ossola.” In the 1920s he drafted his spiritual testament In Supreme Identity in which he reconciles the Christian religion with the theosophy of Schuré and Guénon From this time nothing more is known about the artist Hours: Friday from 3 to 7 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m Admission: €5.00; free: children and students with ID You can read this article in 3 minutesGregor Gowans CargoBeamer says it is further expanding the rail freight route between Kaldenkirchen (Germany) and Domodossola (Italy) which has consisted of 17 weekly rotations since the end of August The company have been keen to stress that since its service runs on the Simplon corridor and through the Lötschberg Base Tunnel it has been able to ensure unobstructed operations of the line in recent weeks which were dominated by the Gotthard tunnel incident the new schedule now represents the highest density of trains ever operated by CargoBeamer on this line and serves as the highest frequency on a route in transalpine intermodal traffic between two terminals for craneable and non-craneable semi-trailers in Europe,” says CargoBeamer CargoBeamer offers its customers up to four daily departures in each direction Customers can send non-craneable semi-trailers refrigerated and silo trailers in addition to craneable semi-trailers and containers The transport of each unit reduces the CO2 footprint by an average of 79% with the remaining emissions being offset by CargoBeamer via CO2 certificates making all shipments entirely carbon neutral CargoBeamer continues to work with BLS Cargo as the traction partner construction works to expand capacity at the CargoBeamer terminal in Domodossola are complete CargoBeamer had acquired the property in 2021 and has been handling the first trains by using reachstackers since March 2022 The expansion includes extending the three existing tracks for reachstacker loading and shunting to around 700 meters each and creating additional parking areas for semi-trailers the terminals’ capacity has increased from 2 to 5 train pairs per day with the expansion eliminating the need to split trains into two parts Some trains will continue to be handled inside the nearby Domo2 terminal of which DB Cargo Transa/FLS is the operator CargoBeamer plans to install its own horizontal transshipment technology turning Domodossola into a central hub for intermodal routes in transalpine traffic “The expansion of the frequency on our historically strongest line Kaldenkirchen – Domodossola is another step in growing our market share for transports between the Germany/Benelux area and Italy The new schedule of 17 weekly rotations reflects our ambition and commitment to the transalpine corridor we are working on expanding Kaldenkirchen and Domodossola into important cornerstones of our network as state-of-the-art CargoBeamer terminals with high capacities.” Agnieszka Kulikowska - Wielgus Journalist Trans.info | 6.05.2025 Pölös Zsófia Journalist Trans.info | 5.05.2025 Fragrance on the Fly: Why Pocket Perfumes Are Perfect for Airplane TravelSponsored Article 6.05.2025 the Sacro Monte Calvario) of Domodossola is one of the many sacred mountains that line the Alpine arc (since 2003 they have been World Heritage Sites united in the site “Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy,” of which Domodossola’s is a part): these are places of pilgrimage organized into several chapels that re-enact the Passion of Christ The one in Domodossola was founded in 1656 by the Capuchins Gioacchino da Cassano and Andrea da Rho who chose the Mattarella hill for their project approved by the Diocese of Novara: the foundation stone was laid in 1657 and the complex was finally consecrated in 1690 by the Bishop of Novara The Sacred Mount of Domodossola consists of the Sanctuary of the Most Holy Crucifix inside which is placed Dionigi Bussola’s 1662 Crucifix and twelve chapels also ornamented largely by Bussola a Baroque artist who poured into the Sacred Mount of the Ossola Valley what he had learned in Rome while studying the works of Bernini Among the artists who participated in the undertaking were sculptors Giuseppe Rusnati Giovanni Antonio Torricelli and his brother Giuseppe Antonio Maria Torricelli Reachable from the Ossola highway (which starts from Gravellona Toce and goes all the way to Simplon), the Val Grande National Park lies between Lake Maggiore and the Cannobina Valley and protects one of the most impervious and wildest areas in all of Europe A true oasis of “wilderness,” as it is called in technical jargon: by this term is meant a vast The Val Grande has always been sparsely populated: the first to venture into its mountains were some shepherds around the 10th century but it has always been sparsely frequented suitable for those who really want to immerse themselves in nature: there are no permanent or seasonal settlements in these parts (the only exception is the village of Cicogna) except for the few bivouacs set up by the park’s managing body The park also stands out for the richness of its vegetation (broadleaf forests prevail while at higher altitudes it is possible to walk on alpine grasslands) and the variety of its fauna: birds such as the golden eagle An unforgettable experience for nature lovers Vogogna is the best-preserved medieval village in the Ossola Valley: its ancient history sees it rivaling Domodossola capital of the Upper Ossola (Vogogna was instead the main center of the Lower Ossola) and then becoming an economically significant village under Visconti rule It was precisely a Visconti who had the town’s main monument built: it was in 1348 when Giovanni Visconti ordered the building of the Visconti Castle which dominates the town from above and was in ancient times part of the line of fortifications that were to protect the Duchy of Milan from Switzerland Vogogna’s ancient strategic importance is also certified by the ruins of the Rocca another defensive structure that stood just above the Castle and which compared to the latter is even older (dating from the 9th-10th centuries) also built starting in 1348 at the behest of Giovanni Visconti stands out: the palace houses the “Celtic mask,” an enigmatic soapstone of Celtic origin depicting a human face which has become a sort of symbol of Vogogna But it is safe to say that the whole village is a continuous discovery Not far from Lake Maggiore is Lake Mergozzo a splendid natural oasis at the foot of the Lepontine Alps and one of the cleanest water lakes in Europe On its shores lies the picturesque village of Mergozzo characterized by its colorful houses and lakeside square where fishermen pull their boats ashore but also for art: one of Piedmont’s main Romanesque monuments first mentioned in the year 885 but in its present appearance dating from the 11th century Lake Mergozzo can also be chosen as a base for an excursion to Val Grande Those who love tranquility but also the outdoors only have to try this place It is one of the best examples of Romanesque architecture in Piedmont as well as the most majestic in the Ossola Valley The church of San Bartolomeo in Villadossola probably dates back to the end of the 10th century: the tall bell tower which is much slimmer than the church (it reaches 34 meters in height) dates back to the beginning of the 11th century on which the Comacine masters presumably worked as a church dedicated to Saints Fabius and Sebastian (only in the 14th century did the dedication change in favor of St Initially with a single nave and circular apse houses above the portal a strange lunette engraved with a cross and bizarre motifs that look more like the work of a street artist looking up to Keith Haring than a medieval engraver The sober interior houses a 1596 wooden altarpiece by Andrea Merzagora the Sanctuary of the Madonna of the Miracles in Ornavasso better known as the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Boden after getting lost at night in the woods around Ornavasso invoked the Virgin Mary to bring her home safely The Virgin intervened and invested little Maria with an aura of light Some local women reportedly saw her surrounded by light and the villagers decided to erect a shrine to Our Lady on the site where a small chapel The current appearance of the building is that resulting from renovations undertaken first in 1763 when the church was enlarged to accommodate the increase in pilgrims when it was converted into a three-aisled building It is one of the main sites of popular devotion in the Ossola Valley Those who don’t want to give up their passion for cycling even on vacation will have plenty to enjoy in the Ossola Valley: the Toce Cycle Route is a network of bike paths that run throughout the Ossola Valley The Val d’Ossola tourist board offers four routes: “biking between the rivers,” 18 kilometers around Domodossola a marked route that describes a loop around the city Croppo di Trontano and Ponte della Mizzoccola the passages along the river through bike paths dirt tracks (the route is therefore reserved for bicycles that can run on this type of terrain) and a few sections along ordinary roads The second is “biking among the villages,” a 25.8-kilometer route (8.8 of which are on bike paths and 6.9 on dirt roads) that runs from Domodossola to Vogogna via the villages of Villadossola “In bici tra i boschi,” 19.2 km in length starts from the center of Vogogna and runs through woods and meadows two-thirds of it on trails reserved for bikes “Cycling among the flowers,” starts from Ornavasso and arrives at the Fondotoce Special Nature Reserve crossing the flower production areas of Lake Maggiore: with its 15 km and 20 meters of elevation gain which you can contact if you are interested in discovering this fascinating place There are seven side valleys in the Ossola Valley: the Antrona Valley, the Anzasca Valley, the Bognanco Valley, the Divedro Valley, the Isorno Valley, the Vigezzo Valley and the Antigorio Valley (of which the Formazza Valley is also a part Each of them has excellent reasons to visit Natural parks and the medieval atmospheres of Borgomezzavalle in the Antrona Valley (located here it remains completely in the dark because of the mountain above it and consequently to receive light it became necessary to install in 2006 a large mirror that reflects the sun’s rays on the village); the beauty of Macugnaga the fascinating history of gold mining and high-altitude hiking in the Anzasca Valley; relaxation in the Bognanco spa and the energy of ski mountaineering in the Bognanco Valley; the Alpe Veglia and Alpe Devero Park and the stone villages of the Divedro Valley; the lakes and peaks of the Isorno Valley; the epic of the chimney sweeps and the wonderful ancient villages of the Vigezzo Valley; and the unspoiled nature and Walser culture of the Formazza Valley All can be reached in a short time from Domodossola The appointment is for June 18: that’s the date set for the inauguration of the “Gian Giacomo Galletti” Civic Museums which will open to the public in Domodossola’s Palazzo San Francesco in the heart of the Borgo della Cultura in the capital of the Ossola Valley It is a multidisciplinary and eclectic institute that tells the story of a frontier territory open to the world and nurtured by a strong collecting impulse especially between the 19th and 20th centuries It is several museums united in a single institute representing a marked spirit of research and exploration that is part not only ofOssola but ofItaly as a whole and which sets itself the ambitious goal of projecting the Gian Giacomo Galletti Civic Museums into the international spotlight.After multiple vicissitudes and uses Palazzo San Francesco shows itself to the public with a renewed look following a thorough restoration and museographic rearrangement that lasted several years Under the direction of Milanese architect Paolo Carlo Rancati always taking into consideration the identity of the Ossola territory built on an ancient Franciscan church that is still frescoed sees the museums organized on three exhibition levels: the ground floor (the 13th-century Franciscan church) dedicated to temporary exhibitions the second floor with the Museum of Natural Sciences and the second floor with the Picture Gallery the Sacred Art section and a part dedicated to graphics with a selection of drawings from the late 16th century to the 20th century Director and curator of the Gian Giacomo Galletti Civic Museums worked in synergy with architect Paolo Carlo Rancati enriched by site-specific interventions by artist Gianluca Quaglia the museum is intended to be a geography of Ossola collecting which purchased the building in the late 19th century and conceived by men and women who traveled and donated to the museums works of art and artifacts from not only the valleys but also and especially from different parts of the world The Civic Museums are the result of the work of a massive restoration and recovery campaign that involved 15 restorers of different types who worked on 63 paintings more than 40 wooden furnishings from the period as well as 2,000 stuffed animals and as many minerals erected in the early 19th century on the ancient Franciscan church just as it was at the dawn of the 20th century artistic and naturalistic identity of Ossola a border territory with continuous exchanges and with artists who deserve to be rediscovered director and curator of the Gian Giacomo Galletti Civic Museums tells us: “Palazzo San Francesco is the collection of many museums that tell the story of a border territory which on one side looks to Italy and on the other to neighboring countries especially at this precise moment in history is to immerse oneself in a privileged observatory where one can rediscover the history and cultural identity of Ossola but also a place that is a hotbed of ideas for building the future and looking far ahead an encounter with so many areas of knowledge and human living Palazzo San Francesco is a mirror of what a Civic Museum should be which is a space without boundaries where one can feel at home and find a little of oneself.” The Gian Giacomo Galletti Civic Museums are documented and illustrated in a guidebook published by Sagep Editori Palazzo San Francesco was built by the Belli family within the first decade of the nineteenth century already active in the mid-thirteenth century you can still see the shape of the church with a vast nave and two side aisles including the fascinating relief of the flower of theApocalypse and bays enriched with frescoes from the second half of the thirteenth century leading to the age of Carlo Borromeo The vicissitudes of Palazzo San Francesco are linked to those of the Gian Giacomo Galletti Foundation which purchased it in 1881 from the Belli family The Foundation was established at the behest of Gian Giacomo Galletti (Colorio a Piedmontese man of humble origins who made his fortune in the manufacture of gold became a member of the Italian parliament and in 1869 established a foundation in his name for the purpose of providing over time for the education and moral education for charitable purposes and in general for the improvement of the economic conditions of the inhabitants of Ossola Its philanthropic intentions included the establishment in Domodossola of professional schools undertook a challenging cultural-historical activity that has come down to us and all movable and immovable property passed to the City of Domodossola On the second floor of the Gian Giacomo Galletti Civic Museums one enters the Museum of Natural Sciences with a rich selection of stuffed animals of large including those of the scholar Giorgio Spezia with particular reference to species from theOssola area comparative anatomy and some interesting organic findings one is greeted by the luminous installation Foresta Giardino a work of contemporary art created by Gianluca Quaglia which is the pivot around which the museum’s layout revolves The Forest is the free and wild environment par excellence the garden on the other hand suggests the intervention of man The two terms tell of a process that is at the heart of scientific research namely the transition from the mysterious to the known in an attempt to enhance all components of nature The Natural Science Museum of Domodossola aims to immerse the visitor in an environment in which the balance between the place of origin of the natural elements and the artifacts that are investigated here is re-established through contemporary art and thus with the permanent interventions conceived and realized by Gianluca Quaglia The walls of the Museum are painted with colors representing the transition from day to night: pink and pale blue with a slow movement leading toward night and a starry sky the artist has intervened on pre-existing plasterwork by making small portions of the sky and colored stars The creation of the Museum of Natural Sciences originates from the plans of Gian Giacomo Galletti: following his death in Paris on May 31 the prolific activity of the Galletti Foundation which the newly elected parliamentarian from Ossola had made official in 1869 with the aim of supporting and increasing the economic development and education of Ossola The project to create a nature museum attracted lively and enthusiastic personalities who with their expertise and diverse academic backgrounds contributed significantly to the birth of this museum An initial nucleus of mineralogical specimens and pieces of the most varied plant species was exhibited in 1875 on the second floor of the north wing adjoining the main body of Palazzo Mellerio at that time the headquarters of the Foundation the Museum was opened to the public for the first time in the rooms of Palazzo Mellerio One of the prominent figures who contributed to the birth and considerable increase of the naturalistic collections was Lieutenant Colonel Giulio Bazetta a patriot in the Alpine Corps and a graduate teacher with a predilection for nature and science He made taxidermy his passion and many of his works can be admired in these rooms material and control of the Museum of Natural Sciences The Galletti Foundation in 1881 bought the building that was owned by the Belli family the naturalistic collections made their entrance on the second floor of Palazzo San Francesco in 1885 the museum was first moved to Palazzo Silva and then several times rearranged and repurposed until its final location in the storerooms of the municipality of Domodossola following the extinction of the Foundation in 1984 Management of the Natural Science Museum’s collections in the early twentieth century was in the charge of Guido Bustico who had a humanist background but a strong passion for science and who did an excellent job of compiling catalogs and reorganizing the collections Almost all of the materials have been classified and catalogued but the collections are still being reordered and studied today a testament to the dynamic and ever-changing nature of nature museums For many years all of the collections remained in storage awaiting the restoration of Palazzo San Francesco and subsequent relocation where they can now be admired in their uniqueness which tells us a fragment of the history of the Ossola area which have been enriched over time as a result of donations from local naturalists and prominent figures in the scientific culture of the time are divided into different sections: mineralogy In the archaeological section one can admire artifacts from different ages and cultures the grave goods of the Ossola warrior Claro Fuenno return to Domodossola and will be visible for the first time after careful restoration The high class is underscored by the presence of a sword such as the one with polychrome ribbons likely from the eastern Mediterranean The first nucleus of the Domodossola Museums promoted by the Galletti Foundation was the nature section Towards the end of that year a first donation of ancient coins was received followed by other lots of numismatic and archaeological antiquities donated by private citizens at the encouragement of director Giacomo Trabucchi and the Foundation’s advisors For these two sections alone between 1875 and 1909 which included prominent members of the cultural political and social worlds not only of Domodossola but of various parts of Piedmont and Italy: lawyers The collections were growing without a unified plan; in particular the numismatic section was increased by several donations The greatest contribution to the archaeological collection was due to the Vigezzo-born physician Giacomo Pollini (Paris who enriched it with continuous shipments of artifacts from 1880 until his death Particularly contributing to the archaeological collection was Cavalier Felice Mellerio (Craveggia during the construction and enlargements of his villa in Masera which he donated to the Galletti Museums until 1892 Samples of objects also arrived from the main excavations carried out in the Ossola area such as some finds unearthed by Enrico Bianchetti in 1890-91 in the necropolis of Ornavasso (locality In Persona) and donated by his son Edgardo and finds made by Egisto Galloni in 1898 and 1903 in the necropolis of Mergozzo (locality La Cappella) and Candoglia Enriched then the Domese collections were entire grave goods discovered in minor localities: Vanzone (excavations 1874) SantAnna di Casale Corte Cerro (1863) and Gurro (archaeological excavation organized in 1886 by the Galletti Foundation and directed by Giacomo Trabucchi) With the support of artifacts from southern Italy a didactic collection was established that was able to offer alongside a duel-flight representation of Egyptian and Magna Greek antiquities a complete development from the Neolithic to the Roman era through evidence of the archaeological heritage of northern Italy The second floor of the museums is conceived as a moving space in which one comes into contact with larte in its most intimate declinations from the very distant origins of human identity with the archaeological museum to the Pinacoteca with paintings and drawings dating from the late 16th century to the 20th century created by artists who enriched the so-called Valley of the Painters At the center of the second floor is the Pinacoteca degli artisti vigezzini declined through the three schools of Ossola that of Buttogno and the Rossetti Valentini school of Santa Maria Maggiore It starts with the great altarpieces by Giuseppe Mattia Borgnis took the Ossola pictorial language as far as England Heart of the exhibition are the works of the patriotic Giuseppe Rossetti an artist thanks to whom the collection of paintings of the Municipality of Domodossola began his is the intriguing as well as fascinating painting with Portraits of Ancient and Modern Painters an ideal gathering around Michelangelo and Raphael most of the artists from Ossola Romantic is the section devoted to the works of Carlo Gaudenzio Lupetti painters who during the nineteenth century developed a strong sensibility that brought them closer to the winds of the Belle époque within wooden tables specially designed by architect Paolo Carlo Rancati and made like the rest of the Museum’s furnishings 33 drawings that the Foundation obtained from Ossola donors in the late 19th century will be presented This is a remarkable set of graphics ranging from the late sixteenth century to the dawn of the twentieth century They are drawings that take up important works darte of the seventeenth century testifying to the spread even in Ossola of the first-rate art between Rome and Bologna Drawings that take up works by Annibale Carracci Ciro Ferri and Carlo Maratti and then two attributed to the Flemish artist Jan Brueghel of the Velvets The ecclesiastical furnishings on display are part of a collection that took shape thanks to purchases and donations made by private individuals to the Galletti Foundation when the latter had undertaken the initiative of procuring suitable space for the creation of an Ossola Museum It was later supplemented by the furnishings seized from Cuzzago and deposited at the Galletti Museum by the Turin Superintendency in 1914 The entire collection consists of about 100 artifacts of various types from which the most significant and valuable have been chosen Broad categories characterize the artifacts used during sacred ritual in the presbytery area the liturgical action took place around the altar the place for which objects were mainly intended Equally important were the furnishings related to the lighting of the church environment chalices were used for the consecration of wine during Mass A particular liturgical aspect is that of the incensing ceremony the bronze specimen in the Museum has a cusped hut shape with angular protomes and can be dated between the 13th and 14th centuries the procession is a ritual present in every religion loaded with symbolic values related to the concept of movement and communal prayer It takes the form of a ritualized derivation of pilgrimage of which it is more circumscribed and determined the procession is always carried out by a community Related to this religious moment are the Processional Cross the exhibit is enriched by two statue crowns and a precious pontifical pantofola that belonged to Pope Innocent IX Facchinetti (1519-1591) whose paternal family was of Cravegna origin The museum also has a collection of wooden sculptures that brings together a number of pieces of diverse Some sculptures are the product of the dismantling of wooden altars in churches replaced by new marble structures; sometimes they are donated fragments It is not improbable for some artifacts that they came from the Reformed lands through Ossola merchants who may have acquired them by wresting them from Protestant iconoclasm and as such not directly ordered from Doltralpian workshops lacquisition may have been due to specific commissions as with the High Swabian or Algau workshop altar made in 1526 and coming from the parish church of Baceno Gate of Paradise and Mouth of Hell can be admired The schools of origin also turn out to be different: they range from the Po Valley (see the two sculptures by De Donati) Aronese (especially the figures of angels to be referred to Bartolomeo Tiberino) and Lombardy (in this regard the heads of cherubs whose original location is unknown) to the Doltralpsian (exemplary is the fragment with the Flagellation of the German school from the second decade of the 16th century) The proximity to the territory of Valais and the proven trade relations give reason for the pertinence of some artifacts to that context and in this regard the fragments of the ceiling of the house in Domodossola in Via Briona are indicative here referred to the Como-born Jacobinus Malacrida after having been present in Locarno and Como In the same direction are explained the presences of a statue named after St both referable to a sculptor from the same territorial area In such heterogeneity the Museum’s sculptures well represent the Ossola reality in a complexity linked to the network of relationships in which it is involved which constitutes one of its most striking features conspicuous is the collection of painted glass: the pieces collected in the Museum are fragments of painted stained glass in good probability from local churches renovated over the centuries but without precise identification of the places of origin As is well known and well exemplified by Gianfranco Bianchetti’s studies there was no shortage of stained glass in Ossola The cases of the church of San Francesco in Domodossola whose lost specimens are attributable to Lukas Schwarz from Bern and documented in 1511 of the parish churches of Crevola and Baceno respectively with interventions by Hanz Funk from Zurich in 1526 and by Anton Schiterberg from Lucerne and workshop in 1547 are emblematic of the richness of artifacts of this kind and of the frequent Ossola gravitation to the Swiss region It was precisely in Switzerland that a school of master glassmakers had developed between the 15th and 16th centuries and the demands from Ossola patrons in those areas (Bern Lucerne also in the second half of the 16th century because of its loyalty to Catholicism) is not surprising given the geographical proximity between the two territories and the proven trade relations The vitreous artifacts collected by the Galletti Foundation are of different schools particularly of the second half of the 16th century For some the linguistic definition is complex the language seems to decline in a direction where Lombard Renaissance legacies converge alongside Doltralpian ones despite the indefiniteness of provenance and precise stylistic affiliation remain evidence of an extraordinary figurative season that had involved the Ossola churches with the specificity of privileged links with the adjacent transalpine regions Guided tours can also be purchased: 2 euros for adults (group with minimum 5 people), 1 euro students. Reservations are required for the tours. Information can be found on the Domodossola Municipality website email conservatore@comune.domodossola.vb.it - cultura@comune.domodossola.vb.it You can read this article in 3 minutesPölös Zsófia CargoBeamer is expanding its network by introducing a new service in Italy linking Northern Italy with Southern Italy and Northern Germany CargoBeamer will connect its terminal in Domodossola in Northern Italy with Bari in Southern Italy This new service will be available both as a gateway connection between Kaldenkirchen (Northern Germany) Domodossola (Northern Italy) and Bari (Southern Italy) and as a single route from Domodossola to Bari.  including craneable and non-craneable semi-trailers silo and frigo trailers and waste transport.  CargoBeamer has increased the frequency of its Kaldenkirchen – Domodossola route to 20 rotations per week.  CargoBeamer will operate three rotations per week between Bari and Domodossola The service is scheduled to start on 17 February from Kaldenkirchen and on 19 February from Domodossola & Bari.  customers will have access to several sea connections from Bari by RoRo/RoPax vessels including services to Patras and Igoumenitsa (Greece) by Grimaldi Lines as well as connections to Durres (Albania) and Yalova in Turkey This new service will create an “intermodal long bridge” between Greek Turkish and Albanian ports and the major north-western transport hubs of Rotterdam CargoBeamer has increased its schedule on the Kaldenkirchen – Domodossola corridor with three additional rotations per week since 5 February this frequency sets a new record for the highest density of train trips on a single connection between two intermodal terminals in Europe.  With up to four daily departures in each direction between Germany and Italy CargoBeamer offers its customers maximum flexibility enabling them to switch from road to environmentally friendly rail transport.  “The Bari route will make CargoBeamer’s services available to several new Southern European carriers diversify our customer portfolio and allow non-craneable semi-trailers to travel unaccompanied between the Mediterranean and the German-Benelux region on a large scale saving around 2,000 kg of CO2 per trip compared to road,” added Boris Timm The Local Europe ABVästmannagatan 43113 25 StockholmSweden Due to work on railroad tracks, no trains will run between Italian cities of Domodossola and Milan, Switzerland’s national rail company EuroCity (EC) trains will not run between the two cities from June 8th until July 27th This will affect the Basel–Bern–Milan and Geneva–Lausanne-Brig–Milan lines Trenitalia will provide replacement buses between Domodossola and Milan they will have a limited capacity and the travel time will be at least one hour longer than by train one EC train in each direction to and from Basel and one train to and from Geneva will run only to Domodossola with four Eurocity trains on these two lines SBB and Trenitalia will offer additional replacement buses between Geneva and Milan with an intermediate stop in Martigny (VS) They plan two daily connections in June and September services on the Simplon axis will be reduced "for several years work that is under way in the Simplon Tunnel is impacting the train schedule between Brig and the Italian city of Iselle Find out what other disruptions to expect in coming weeks and months here: READ ALSO: International and night trains in Switzerland set for major disruption Please log in here to leave a comment The Civic Museums of Palazzo San Francesco in Domodossola are hosting a major exhibition dedicated to Futurism from June 22 to November 3 Building the Space of the Future.The exhibition aims to recount the modernity of the city of Domodossola which was fully involved in the Futurist logic at the beginning of the 20th century.The exhibition will present more than seventy works from the last decade of the nineteenth century to 1960 from the prefuturist season to aeropainting in order to emphasize the changing relationship between man and nature Great protagonists were Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla and Fortunato Depero: artists who centered their language on speed The exhibition will be divided into three sections: it begins with the vision of the early 20th century landscape and the contemplation of man in nature Here works by Balla and Boccioni created in the Divisionist and Pre-Futurist phases will be on display and by Depero in dialogue with two wooden mannequins with costumes from the Val D’Ossola: man-sized sculptures offered to the public for the first time since the 1881 Milan National Exhibition Dottori and Pippo Rizzo that develop the theme of movement and speed; by the latter is Treno notturno in velocità while by Balla is Colpo di fucile domenicale which comes to Domodossola from the collection of the Banca d’Italia which leads the exhibition toward the last season of postwar Futurism The masterpieces on display will dialogue with sculptures of Ossola women in period dress the first car registered in the Province of Novara and theairplane of Peruvian aviator Geo Chávez who accomplished the feat of the first transflight of the Alps The exhibition is curated by Antonio D’Amico and is presented by the Municipality of Domodossola in partnership with the Paola Angela Ruminelli Foundation with the support of the Fondazione Comunitaria del VCO and with the fundamental collaboration of the Mart-Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto and the Associazione Musei dell’Ossola You can read this article in 2 minutesGregor Gowans Girteka has announced that it has now sent as many as 20,000 semi-trailer transports via CargoBeamer train since the start of their collaboration 6 years ago the companies successfully tested several trains between Germany and Lithuania specifically connecting Kaldenkirchen to Šeštokai and Kaldenkirchen to Kaunas The companies then announced an extension of their partnership to two new intermodal routes in January 2022 CargoBeamer boasts that its horizontal and parallel loading and unloading technology allows for the quick handling of full intermodal trains in a time of about 20 minutes allowing cargo to be delivered in approximately 22 hours while covering a distance of 825 km The company’s first proprietary terminal containing this solution was opened in Calais Two more CargoBeamer-Terminals equipped with the unique handling technology are also set to be opened in Kaldenkirchen and Domodossola in the near future “The flexibility and capacity that large logistics companies like Girteka bring to the table are indispensable in keeping Europe’s goods flowing By integrating road and rail through intermodal solutions we are creating a logistics network that is not only more sustainable but also more adaptable to the challenges ahead We are very happy to have Girteka on board as a cornerstone customer for many years now and were excited to celebrate the 20,000th Girteka trailer transported on our trains recently.” “We are not just moving goods from point A to B We are committed to doing it in a way that is kinder to the Earth CargoBeamer helps us do that by making it easier and faster to switch from road to rail which significantly cuts down on carbon emissions.” to whom he went as an assistant in August 1898 at Maloja in the Engadine and whose unpredictable disappearance at the height of his glory (the following year in September 1899 on the Schafberg) shook him to the core marking his soul and his proceeding as a young adept." In the first decade of the new century Fornara proposed a painting of European and international outcomes with works many of which are offered in the exhibition(Chiara pace characterized by Divisionist experimentation gradually overcoming the influence of Segantini’s themes and vision arrives at an entirely original way of transposing into canvases the beauty of the Vigezzo Valley “restored in the dual nature of poetry and strength together,” the curator points out which manifested itself in the work En plen air rejected in 1897 by the Third Brera Biennial but appreciated by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo and Giovanni Segantini two of the major exponents of the Divisionist current His participation in the third International Art Exhibition in Venice was in 1899 Having come into contact with Alberto Grubicy de Dragon, owner of the Grubicy Gallery and brother of the promoter of pointillism at the European level the art dealer and painter himself Vittore Grubicy de Dragon Fornara was greatly appreciated by both and put in contact with Segantini who wanted the young artist as his assistant Thanks to the patronage of the Grubicy family Fornara was present at the major national and international painting exhibitions of those years.Gradually his adherence to the Divisionist school began to weaken around the 1920s when the artist began his own pictorial research with a wholly personal style where he continued to paint until his death in 1968 The exhibition opens on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., and in July and August also from Tuesday to Friday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tickets cost 5 euros, and children and young people up to 18 years old get in free. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog published by Silvana Editoriale. For more information you can visit the Poscio Collection website expanding from semi-finished products to luxury accessories They have also doubled their participation in the fair events the leather goods international exhibition in addition to their traditional participation in Lineapelle95 (scheduled on 25-27 September) to highlight their connection with the local area: although they supply accessories through Athison (the ancient name of the river Toce which flows across the Ossola valley) and Oxilla (Domodossola’s Latin old name) brands Manifattura di Domodossola is still the manufacturing company in the industry of woven semi-finished products “We did want to create a fully Italian supply industry – points out Giuseppe Polli all processing are carried out in our plants” Our participation in the fairs also offers a chance to tell about innovation as for Intreccincantiere directed at fashion students and design academies worldwide The company has been exhibiting its products the most important leather and materials international fair All you need to know about the leather industry one of the symbolic places of the Resistance The city of Domodossola has decided to cancel the procession and the band for the 25th April amidst the controversy and criticism of the ANPI and the left Controversy a DomodossolaThe town of Ossola has in fact decided to cancel the procession and the band for today Domodossola, among other things, was a symbolic city of the Resistance and was also the seat of the Republic of Ossola, the first example of self-government of a liberated territory. The reason why the mayor Lucio Pizzi decided to cancel the procession and the band is because of the five days of mourning after the death of Pope Francesco in compliance with the recommendation of “sobriety” The decision of the mayor of Domodossola to cancel both the procession and the band for the 25th April has sparked strong controversy president of the Anpi provincial of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola: “we are really upset by this choice we would have hoped for a minimum of discussion We believe that respect for a national mourning is not broken by a procession we as Anpi will propose to participate in a gathering in front of the Town Hall and then together to Piazza Matteotti where we will participate in the events already previously scheduled.” Notizie.it is a newspaper registered with the Court of Milan n.68 on 01/03/2018 Impara come descrivere lo scopo dell'immagine (si apre in una nuova scheda) Lascia vuoto se l'immagine è puramente decorativa