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The Sanctuary of the Madonna of succour rises in common of Ossuccio on Lake Como. It is situated on the slope of the mountain, to 400 ms. slm, above the places of Ossuccio to Lenno, of forehead to the Island Comacina.

The tradition popular league the beginnings of the devotion to the Madonna to an ancient statue of Maria and to an ancient painting. The statue, in white marble, hidden probabillmente on the place in times of struggles and invasions, was found again here by a young girl sordomuta that had the gift of the recovery. The painting, that represents the Virgo with the Jesus child and S. Eufemia, is very ancient (1501).
The Sanctuary is of different epoches: the central body was completed in 1537.
To around a kilometer from the Sanctuary, it begins the avenue of the chapels, long which the 14 tempiettis barocchis line up him, that contain the representative scenes the facts of the life of Jesus and the Madonna remembered in the mysteries of the rosary.

The facts are represented with statues in plaster and terracotta of natural greatness and with frescos. The chapels, you realize between 1635 and 1710, they are true masterpieces of art of the plasterers of the school intelvese, and they represent an unusual documentation etnografica and folk of that centuries, with principal author the plasterer Agostino Silva, of Morbio (1620-1706).
The natural beauties and the silence that surround it, help notavolmente to make of the sanctuary a privileged place of meetings with God. To help the men to meet God, through his child Jesus, the mission that the Madonna develops in her sanctuaries.
For information: Rector 0344-55211 Restaurant 0344-55419