Arona

Arona is a town and comune on Lake Maggiore, in the Province of Novara (northern Italy). Its main economic activity is tourism, especially from Milan, France and Germany.Archaeological findings have shown that the area of what today is Arona was settled from the 18th-13th centuries BC.

Later it was a possession of the Celts, the Romans and the Lombards.In the 11th century the Benedictine abbey of Saints Gratianus and Felinus, Martyrs, was founded.After the siege and destruction of Milan in 1162 by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, many of the exiled took refuge in Arona.