Arcumeggia


Arcumeggia is a fraction of the municipality of Casalzuigno in the province of Varese, in Italy.

Overview

The place is known because in 1956 the Organization Provincial for the Tourism decided to turn it into a painted village. After such decision, came in the country artists as Ferruccio Ferrazzi, Aldo Carpi, Sante Monachesi, Aligi Sassu, Ernesto Treccani, Achille Funi, Giuseppe Migneco, Gianni Dova, Gianfilippo Usellini, Innocente Salvini, Giovanni Brancaccio, Bruno Saetti, Enzo Morelli, Remo Brindisi, Fiorenzo Tomea, Eugenio Tomiolo, Francesco Menzio, Ilario Rossi, Giuseppe Montanari, Cristoforo De Amicis, Luigi Montanarini, Umberto Faini, Antonio Pedretti and Albino Reggiori.
The paintings, performed with the technique of the fresco, are on the external walls of the houses of the village:
Close to the church, there is a Way of the Cross, with the stations painted by 11 different artists:
Notable it is also the House of the Painter that preserves the sketches and the tests of the frescos and hosts summer courses of painting organized by the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera.
Arcumeggia is the native country of the sculptor Giuseppe Vittorio Cerini, of which numerous works are in Italy and in some foreign countries. May be admired a small gallery of plaster casts in the courtyard of the native house and two marble works in the local cemetery.