In a corner of the Piedmont region, 120 km far away from Milan and only 40 km from Lake Maggiore there is a small village situated on the Italian side of the Alps – its name is Macugnaga. This beautiful „pearl“, surrounded by peaks and glaciers that make up the Mt. Rosa massif was settled hundreds of years ago by Walser communities migrating from Switzerland, whose racial characteristics (language, tradition and folklore) have been practically preserved intact till nowadays.
