The Palazzo del Pretorio is a 15th century building with access from Via Marconi through a portal with a pointed arch in Angera Stone. 

The present building stands  on a previous church dedicated to Santa Maria, extant since at least the 14th century.

The current edifice is the result of the rebuild between 1580 and 1585 of structures dating to the Early Medieval period. What was once considered to be Angera's major church was most probably erected on top of a previous Early Christian construction.

The ex-convent of Santa Caterina, martyr and virgin, was built in the 14th century as a hospital adjacent to the church of the same name.

From the old Pasqué, now Piazza Parrocchiale, starts the old Via di Mezzo, today called Via Mario Greppi after a victim of the Liberation shot in 1945 (and previously Via Vittorio Emanuele II).

The building that overlooks the first square on Via Greppi was headquarters of the Società Anonima Maglificio Angerese, founded in 1894 by Teresina Piona and Amalia Forni, which gave employment to hundreds of workers, mostly women, and was an important important economic resource for the town's inhabitants.

North of Via Achille Piazzi, named after a young partisan shot in 1944, runs a stretch of solid stone wall known to locals as the Barbacani (barbican). The term refers to a medieval defensive structure associated with a town's fortifications. However, despite numerous investigations Angera's town wall has never been found; a possible external ditch was brought to light in the 1980s during work in Via Cadorna.

Half-way along Via Greppi, proceeding from Piazza Parrocchiale, there is another square containing buildings of medieval origin and a bank. Nearby, on the north side, is Casa Forni.

On the left (south) side of Via Greppi, at the corner with Via Cavour (once Contrada delle Monache), stand the remains of the convent of Santa Teresa, now used as dwellings and shops. 
The architectural form may be clearly seen from above, from the gallery of the castle or Rocca.
The Convent of Santa Teresa was founded in 1727 and suppressed in 1782; it was inhabited by nuns of the Barefoot Carmelite Order.

At the junction with Via Rocca, Via Mario Greppi is known as the Carrobbio: this term, typical of Lombardy, derives from the Latin quadrivium and means crossroads. 

Before reaching the lake, Via Mario Greppi touches the old quarter called da Muu or dell’Amore, where in the past Angera's fishermen lived. Today the road is named after the young partisan Arturo Merzagora who was shot in 1944.

 After the junction with Via Merzagora, the old Via di Mezzo takes the name of Via Carlo Ondoli in memory of Angera's first hospital, established in a house donated by Carlo Ondoli in 1879. 

The west side of the Rocca di Angera has been used since Roman times as a quarry for Angera Stone.
This is a sedimentary rock, a dolomite, already employed for building 2,000 years ago, e.g. in the Roman theatre in Milan.

In recent years the waters of Angera have always received the bandiera blue (blue flag), which is the official confirmation of clean swimming waters in Italy. There are two beaches that are designated swimming areas in Angera.

The War Memorial dominates the part of the shore that juts out into the lake; it is made of granite and portrays an infantryman on lookout.

The part of the public gardens which extends from the Austrian Port to the landing stage is embellished with lime trees almost a century old, which Angera fisherman used to hang their nets from to dry them in the sun and make repairs.

In 1657 on the 27th June occurred the miracle of sweating blood, which appeared on the forehead of the Blessed Virgin that stood above the side wall of the door of Casa Berna. So, as is their custom, the women of Angera had made a garland of flowers for this effigy

For over 2,000 years Angera's development has been due the fact that it faces onto a bay protected from the wind by the Rocca and San Quirico hills. This natural port lay at the centre of river and lake routes between Europe further north and the Adriatic that passed along the Po and Ticino rivers and Lake Maggiore.

Isolino Partegora, covered only by poplars and surrounded by reeds, is an isle in the middle of the small bay (known in the past as “gora”).

Borromeo Palace is a Neoclassical building of sober and elegant lines; the central portion bears a triangular pediment and on the first floor there is a long balcony held up by lions' heads. On the façade is a plaque placed there in 1882 by the local Workers' Association in memory of Garibaldi's sojourn in the house from the 15th to 17th June 1862.

Angera's southern waterfront is of 19th century design. The shore was filled in, creating the suggestive lawns that give the town an appearance not found elsewhere in the lake.
In 1820 the pedestrian promenade was also added; originally it had three rows of horse-chestnut trees, reduced to two in 1914 when the Angera-Varese tramline (now dismantled) was built.

The residence at 8 Via Visconti still displays an arched brick entrance (now closed off) surmounted by a circular shield bearing the serpent of the Visconti family. Beside survives a fine mullioned window with a capital decorated with the Visconti coat of arms, flanked by two heads.

The Town Hall was built in 1893 as a school; since the 1960s it has been seat of the council offices.
The façade commemorates some important local personages. In 1899 a memorial stone was dedicated to Giuseppe Ferrari, distinguished politician and thinker, and Felice Cavallotti, illustrious citizen and ardent defender of political morality. 

The large square between the modern fountain and the Madonna della Riva Sanctuary has had various names over the centuries.
Known as Piazza del Lago in 1770, it was then named after Ferdinando I; after Italy was united it was called Piazza della Riva, Piazza del Lago and Piazza Stazzona; since 1883 it has been named after Giuseppe Garibaldi.

The villa is one of the local examples of Liberty-style architecture, which spread in the Varese area from the early 20th century onwards.

During excavations conducted in 2005 at the corner between Via Mazzini and Via San Martino (in the area where the Rossi Distillery stood) interesting Roman remains were found. These include part of a 1st century AD road, which may be seen inside a garage.

The Rocca di Angera is a castle or fortress which stands majestically on a spur of rock that dominates the southern shore of Lake Maggiore. In a strategic position to see the surrounding area and any approaching people, it was the property of the Visconti family, originally from Verbano, and in 1449 it was bought by the Borromeo family, to whom it still belongs today.

In times past the road between Angera and Ranco did not run along the lakeside, but a little further inland. This old road offers a stroll through farms, woods, vineyards and villas with splendid views of the lake.

Cascina Monastero owes its name to a religious foundation established by Cardinal Federico Borromeo. On 25th July 1625 work was begun on the construction of a monastery for the Barefoot Carmelite nuns, who livered a cloistered existence devoted mainly to contemplative prayer. 

The church of San Quirico, which stands on top of the hill named after it, is of ancient foundation; the first document referring to it dates from the early years of the 13th century.
The church has undoubtedly several construction phases; the oldest part is the apse, and the building was completed in later centuries. The wall decorations and frescoes date to the 1920s.

The old Via Valcastellana still preserves some stretches finished with river cobbles, once known as 'Lombardy build'. This road-surfacing technique has been used since the Roman period and demonstrates the antiquity of the road, which connects the town with the farmhouses on San Quirico Hill and the Ronchi, with its terraced vine cultivations that are typical of the Varese area.

The wetland of Bruschera, about 164 hectares, located on the Lombardy shore of Lake Maggiore south of Angera, is one of the last patches of flooded forest in Lombardy, characterized by a vast wet forest of black alder trees, a system of springs, meadows, ponds and reedbeds along with oak woods and some small agricultural plots.

The Napoleonic and Austrian laws according to which cemeteries were to be moved to areas outside settlements were put into effect after the unification of Italy. The local surveyors and geologists decided to site in Bocca dei Cavalli locality the Civic Cemetery of Angera that was established in 1877.

Excavations conducted between 1981 and 1984 revealed that the area has been inhabited since at least the 1st century AD and brought to light the remains of a rural building dating to the 3rd century AD. The construction comprised a residential area next to a productive area with a courtyard.

The Church of the Sacra Famiglia was built in the village of Bruschera di Angera in 1952.

The piazza, now surrounded by old buildings with backyards and farms, is at the centre of the outlying village of Capronno.This locality may have been the site of a Roman farmhouse, as suggested by a number of interesting archaeological finds. 

The Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Capronno stands on a hill overlooking the hamlet.
The present building incorporates an older church dedicated to Santa Maria.

The Chapel of Saint Ambrose stands only a few metres away from the road leading from Capronno to Cadrezzate and Lentate. In plan, this small chapel is composed of two chambers divided by a doorway with a round arch: the apse and the porch.

The summit of the hill that overlooks Capronno is referred to in old documents as castello or castellaccio (castle). No remains are visible now in this wooded area, but 1970 during agricultural work, the remains of walls, pottery and brick/tiles of Roman and Lombard epoch were unearthed.

A church dedicated to Saint Quiricus in Barzola locality is documented in the late 13th century; this was perhaps the church of Barzola in the parish of Angera which since the 16th century has been dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian.

Hospital for the poor established in 1889 after kindly entrepreneur Carlo Ondoli bequeathed his house for the purpose, and directed by the doctor Luigi Pigorini. In 1914 the hospital was transferred to its current location in Via Bordini and the original building passed into private owners.

An old street in the fishermen’s quarter, traditionally known as Via da ‘Muu (Street of Love), where the inhabitants of Angera were accustomed to exchange promises of eternal love.

Angera remembers the Czechoslovakian soldiers who fought alongside Italian troops during World War I and were stationed in the Corte dei Cardana. Via Paletta is home to the Corte dei Cardana, also called curt da bass  (lower courtyard), to distinguish it from the curt da sura (upper courtyard) situated in what is now Via Mario Greppi. A wall facing the Corte dei Cardana bears part of a coat-of-arms accompanied by writing, painted by Czechoslovakian soldiers on training in Angera.

Reproduction of the painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit by Caravaggio (1571-1610) using the ‘spray colours’ technique, produced by the artist Andrea RAVO Mattoni for the Angera September 2016 festival, as part of his project "Una Pinacoteca a cielo aperto (An Open-air Art Gallery)". The work was funded by the Tedeschi family and the Angera community.

This wrought iron cross was erected in memory of those who died in past epidemics. Until the 1950s the cross was decorated with flowers and blessed during a religious procession.

This public washing place commemorates the immense amount of hard work carried out by the women who washed clothes in such facilities or in rivers until the 1960s, breaking the ice in winter and short of water in the summer.

The shrine stands on the old road to Ranco just after the junction with Via Bologna, in a part of the town known as Altinada, in an area once occupied by the church of San Cassiano. Important archaeological discoveries have been made in this zone, such as the burial urn of Calventia Virilliena on display in the worked-stone section of the Archaeology Museum at 2 Via Marconi, Angera.

The beautifully carved slab, probably of late 19th century date, shows St Michael, winged, dressed in a short light tunic and ankle-length footwear with open toes; he holds the spear firmly in his hands with the point downwards, destined to pierce the winged dragon that the archangel holds firmly under his right foot. The sculptural representation of this monstrous animal perhaps does not do justice to its satanic ferocity.

An old chapel dedicated to the Madonna della Pace is recorded on this site from 1579; the main processions recorded in the Capitular Diary passed here, in particular those that went from Angera to Ranco and back, along the Vigane and the old road to Ranco.  It was demolished in about 1950 and in 1961 this chapel was built to replace it, near the entrance to the Angera schools.

The chapel stands in the area of the old 1786 Capronno graveyard, replaced by the present one in 1858. It was perhaps originally a cemetery chapel dedicated to plague victims or to San Rocco, protector against pestilences.

Head of young woman, known as La Scapiliata, from a work by Leonardo da Vinci, painted on occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death. Andrea Ravo Mattoni, 2019, spray paint on PVC canvas, 1.5 x 1 m.

Painting showing the face St Anthony. Andrea Ravo Mattoni, 2019, spray paint on PVC canvas, 2 x 1.5 m. The original work belongs to the parish and is not open to the public; it comes from the church of Sant’Antonio Abate, which was in Via Paletta but was deconsecrated and partly demolished in the latter half of the 19th century; today all that is visible from the street of the church is a door jamb in Angera stone with a floral decoration

Detail showing Napo Torriani begging for mercy to Bishop Ottone Visconti, from the wall paintings in the Hall of Justice, Angera Castle. The room was decorated by an anonymous Angera painter in the late 13th – early 14th century. Andrea Ravo Mattoni, 2019, spray paint on PVC canvas, 2 x 1.5 m.

Painting on canvas showing the face of Santa Liberata. Andrea Ravo Mattoni, 2019, spray paint on PVC canvas, 2 x 1.5 m. The original work belongs to the parish and is not open to the public; it comes from the church of Santa Liberata in Via Lombardia which was deconsecrated and became private property in the 19th century.

Detail of face attributed to San Quirico, from the wall paintings discovered in 1993 in the sacristy of the church of Santa Maria Maddalena e Ambrogio in Capronno. Andrea Ravo Mattoni, 2019, spray paint on PVC canvas, 1.5 x 1.5 m.

Detail of wall painting from the House of Forni with a portrait of Ludovico Maria Sforza (Il Moro) in armour surrounded by a garland. Andrea Ravo Mattoni, 2019, spray paint on PVC canvas, 1.3 x 1.3 m.

L’antica cascina contadina, già documentata sulle mappe catastali di metà ‘800, ospita oggi la sede della Compagnia Roggero, attiva nella produzione artigianale di burattini, marionette e pupazzi ed eccellenza nazionale nel teatro di figura.
Nel 1990, durante i lavori di ristrutturazione di uno dei locali della cascina, furono rinvenuti sotto uno strato di intonaco, numerosi bozzoli, testimonianze della pratica in passato della bachicoltura, cioè dell’allevamento dei bachi da seta.