Albese with Cassano

The town of Albese con Cassano is located on a terrain formed by the melting of the Abduano glacier; is an Italian town of 4138 inhabitants in the province of Como, in Lombardy. The town is located in the Alta Brianza and is part of the Mountain Community of the Lariano Triangle. There are numerous villas in the area, such as: Villa Visconti Crivelli from 1809, Villa Parravicini di Persia from the seventeenth century preserves the oratory of Santa Elisabetta, from 1679 and Villa Bassi Roncalier from the eighteenth century in Baroque style. The Ethnographic and Water Museum was born in 2004 from the idea of recovering the ancient wash house and the time spent washing clothes, which was also a time for dialogue, reflection, singing, sharing and meeting. The museum is located in the 'Fabio Casartelli' civic center. In the 2000s, a monument dedicated to the memory of Fabio Casartelli, the late cyclist, winner of the gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, was built within the municipality. The monument is in white marble from Garfagna. The symbol of the city is also the church of San Pietro from the 11th century. The Roman-style church has a rectangular plan with a simple facade surmounted by a lunette window. The bell tower has a belfry lit by two floors of mullioned windows. Inside the church there are frescoes by Giovanni Giacomo De Magistris. The parish church of Santa Margherita built in the nineteenth century preserves a nineteenth-century organ of exquisite workmanship. Honor to the city is brought by the band the 'Filarmonica Albesina' whose first statute dates back to 1959.