Santa Maria Maggiore

Santa Maria Maggiore has been a mountain settlement in Piedmont’s Val Vigezzo since the Middle Ages. It stands in the upper valley of the Melezzo Orientale, near the Swiss border in the Lepontine Alps. The town is closely associated with the chimney-sweep trade: its Museo dello Spazzacamino records the demanding lives of workers who left these valleys for cities across Europe, while an international chimney-sweep gathering keeps that heritage visible. The Vigezzina-Centovalli railway links Santa Maria Maggiore with Domodossola and Locarno. Browse webcams in nearby valleys to see how Santa Maria Maggiore belongs to the wider Alpine borderland.

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