New   Azzio

WHERE EVERYTHING WAS BORN

The church of the Convent of Azzio (Varese) is a seventeenth-century monument of great historical interest for the Valcuvia. For some years now, a committee has been promoting its restoration, in order to enhance the building's artistic peculiarities alongside liturgical activities.
The history of the Convent is intertwined with that of the Mascioni organ company, which was born in this very church. During the period of Napoleonic suppressions, two conventual friars, Father Antonio and Father Pasquale Mascioni, who had taken refuge in Azzio, initiated their very young nephew Giacomo into the art of organ-making.