RAMADA MALPENSA HOTEL

What to know about our area‌

Summary 1. Where we are 2. Lake Maggiore 3. Lake Orta 4. Mountains 5. Milan 6. Team Building 7. Shopping 8. Golf 9. Food & Drink 10. Lots of Fun

Where we are We are here!

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9 km from Milan’s Malpensa International Airport

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15 km from Lake Maggiore

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40 km from Milan

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25 km from Exhibition Centre at Milan Rho

Lake Maggiore (at 15 min)

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More details at: www.illagomaggiore.com

Lake Orta (at 35 min)

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More details at: www.lagod’orta.com www.ortasangiulio.com

Mountains Alpe Veglia ( at 90 min )

Mottarone ( at 60 min )

Alagna ( at 90 min )

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More details at: www.alagna.it www.mottarone.it www.alpeveglia.it

Milan (at 40 min)

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More details at: www.turismo.milano.it Rho Fair

www.zaniviaggi.it www.fieramilano.it www.teatroallascala.org

Team Building Rafting in Valsesia ( at 60 min )

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Softair ( at 10 min )

More details at: www.charlieone.it www.sesiarafting.it

Shopping (at 30 min) Hotel Ramada

Vicolungo Outlets

More details at: www.vicolungooutlets.com

SHOPPING AT VICOLUNGO THE STYLE OUTLETS

For Ramada’s guests, shopping is discounted!

At the Hotel’s Reception it is possible to withdraw a coupon of Vicolungo The Style Outlets, with a Ramada stamp on it, that showed to the outlet’s Tourist Information Office, gives the right of further discounts, from 5% to 10% on the outlet price in the shops adherent to the initiative. The card will be released together with the list of the adhrent shops. Reductions can not be accumulated with other current promotions and they are not valuable during the sales of the end of season.

Golf (at 15 min)

Golf Club Bogogno

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AGRATE CONTURBIA

Golf Club Castelconturbia

More details at: www.golfbogogno.com Hotel Ramada

www.castelconturbia.it

Food & Drink

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More details at: www.ilroccolovini.it www.podereaivalloni.it

Lots of fun Adventure Park ( at 45 min )

Safari Park ( at 5 min )

Hotel Ramada Water Park ( at 30 min )

More details at: www.lagomaggioreadventurepark.it www.safaripark.it www.ondaland.it

RELIGIOUS SITES IN PIEDMONT The Oropa Sanctuary

The Boca Sanctuary

The Sacred Mount of Varallo Sesia

The Sacred Mount of Orta

Novara: the Cathedral and the Basilica of San Gaudenzio

The Sacred Mount of Varallo www.sacromontevarallo.eu The Sacred Mount of Varallo is an artistic religious complex consisting of 45 chapels and a church, populated with frescoes and sculptures which tell the story of the life of Christ.

It was realised at the end of the 15th century, at the wish of Father Bernardino Caimi, a Franciscan friar of the Observant Minors, who had been custodian of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and who wanted to reproduce the holy sites of Palestine where the earthly life of Christ had taken place.

The Sacred Mount is also a beautiful example of park gardens, organised according to the model of the Italian garden, with hedges, paths and wooded areas, but also of the ideal town with its two historical squares.

Already in the early 16th century, thanks to the work of the painter, sculptor and architect Gaudenzio Ferrari, the scenes inside the chapels were presented in an innovative merging of painting, and sculptures with strong realism, so that the devout could feel strongly involved.

The Sacred Mount of Orta www.sacromonteorta.it

Placed on the summit of a hill overlooking the Orta Lake, this Sacred Mount fits in perfectly with the surrounding landscape: enchanting panorama over the lake are elements that make this place unique, pervaded by a sense of meditation and serenity.

The Sacred Mount of Orta is dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi, and each of the twenty chapels recalls episodes of the life of the saint, interpreted as similar to the life of Jesus.

It is this dedication to a saint, instead of to Christ or to the Madonna that makes it different from the other Sacred Mounts.

The construction of the chapels follow each other in a spiral itinerary, and went on for over a century, transforming the route into representations of different architectural styles.

Novara: Cathedral and Basilica of San Gaudenzio www.comune.novara.it The Cathedral of Santa Maria as it is seen today dates back to the second half of the 19th century, when it was built in Neoclassical style, from designs by Alessandro Antonelli. During this work, parts of the previous Romanesque cathedral were encompassed into the building, including a large fragment of the mosaic flooring from the presbytery. The central nave is adorned by a series of Flemish arrasses (ca. 1565) that narrate episodes from the Life of Solomon.

The Basilica of San Gaudenzio is the highest point in Novara.

It is dedicated to Gaudentius of Novara, first Christian bishop of the city. It was built between 1577 and 1690 following the destruction of the old Basilica.

The Basilica itself was built by Pellegrino Tibaldi; however, the monumental cupola of 122 m. high was designed by Antonelli (who also built the Mole Antonelliana in Torino).

The Boca Sanctuary www.santuariodiboca.it

In the middle of a woodland countryside and vineyard hills rises the Boca Sanctuary.

Its origin comes from an ancient chapel, located one chilometer far from the little village, where there was a divine painting attracting a great number of pelgrins.

After different miracles, like a healing of an epileptic kid, in 1830 Alessandro Antonelli was commissioned to build up the majestic church in a neoclassical style.

A lot of efforts followed and in 1917 the Sanctuary was terminated.

Nowadays the holy place is considered a religious aim by a lot of pelgrins.

The Oropa Sanctuary www.santuariodioropa.it The Oropa Sanctuary is the most important and largest Sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin Mary to be found in the Alps.

It is located in a unique, natural and unspoilt setting at only 15 minutes driving from the centre of Biella.

It was founded in the 4th century AD by St. Eusebio, the first bishop of Vercelli.

The complex is made up of three large courtyards.

The first one is followed by the wide square containing the Ancient Basilica, the spiritual heart of the Sanctuary.

Its Sacellum holds the statue of the Black Madonna.

Beyond the imposing staircase opening above the Piazzale Sacro the view expands to the Upper Basilica, an edifice of monumental proportions, offering an interesting contrast with the intimate spiritual dimension of the ancient Basilica.

The necessity to erect a new church, due the growing number of pilgrims flowing to the Sanctuary, was felt as early as the 17th century.

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