{"id":6863,"date":"2026-03-09T18:21:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angera.org\/luogo\/church-of-saints-cosma-and-damiano-barzola\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:56:19","slug":"church-of-saints-cosma-and-damiano-barzola","status":"publish","type":"luogo","link":"https:\/\/www.angera.it\/en\/luogo\/church-of-saints-cosma-and-damiano-barzola\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of Saints Cosma and Damiano Barzola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11th&nbsp;century bell-tower,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>18th- 20th&nbsp;century church<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A church dedicated to Saint Quiricus in Barzora locality is documented in the late 13th&nbsp;century; this was perhaps the church of Barzola in the parish of Angera&nbsp;which since the 16th&nbsp;century has been dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian.<br \/>\nThe slender, elegant bell-tower seems to be part of the original building that dates to the early second millennium; it is one of the oldest and best-preserved in the Province of Varese.<br \/>\nThe vivid colour of the masonry is due to the use of a mixture of river cobbles, gneiss, granite, brick\/tile and re-used material. This construction practice is typical of southern Lake Maggiore, where the scarcity of building stone has led to the use of all available materials.<br \/>\nThe wall surfaces are embellished with pilastered panels and blind arcades and the openings widen upwards; the uppermost is a two-mullioned window.<br \/>\nThe church was comprehensively rebuilt in the 18th&nbsp;century on the base of the original medieval construction, and enlarged in the 1940s.<br \/>\nInside, frescoes on the vault of the apse show the symbols of the Four Evangelists, while on the wall behind the altar there is a painting of the Madonna di Fatima by Paolo Rivetta, placed at the centre of a fresco showing angels at prayer.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"featured_media":6864,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tema":[114],"tipologia":[],"class_list":["post-6863","luogo","type-luogo","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tema-religious-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angera.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/luogo\/6863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angera.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/luogo"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angera.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/luogo"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angera.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angera.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angera.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"tipologia","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angera.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipologia?post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}