domenica 10 agosto 2014

Crevoladossola - Napoleonic bridge and hamlet Fabbrica

The majestic Napoleonic bridge, border between the Pennine Alps and Lepontines, was built in the early 1800s at the behest of Napoleon Bonaparte, who gave the order to build a road that would combine Milan and Paris through the step of sempione (site of a major battle in 1487 between the Helvetians and  the Duchy of Milan). Below you can see the remains of the bridge Renaissance.




 around the bridge on both sides of the river Diveria develops the hamlet of Fabbrica with the stone houses of the Ossola and the classic octagonal churches