Riserva Speciale del Sacro Monte di Domodossola

Of Lombard or maybe of Byzantine origins, it was the seat of the Lombard "giudicaria" and subsequently of the Count Palatino Franco. In 1014 it was given as a gift by Henry of Saxony to the Church of Novara, and it became a Bishop residence. In 1381 it passed to the Visconti in Milan and it was destroyed in 1415 by the Swiss who were there to conquest the Ossola.