Everything in Baveno leads back to granite and the workmanship of the stone-cutters: The quarrying and processing of local stone has profoundly influenced the character and the development of the Baveno area.

From street names (which would translate from the Italian to things like “Quarry Street”, “Stone-cutters street”, “Pink granite Road”, etc) through to public, private and religious buildings but also in single monuments and artefacts, every corner shows signs of the presence of granite and of the activities of the people who were involved with it.

Baveno pink granite is the most famous of the granites of the lakes (Maggiore, Orta and Mergozzo). Aimed to promote the knowledge of it Baveno works in collaboration with the Montorfano Granite Ecomuseum network, and has expanded its promotional activities to include the entire area surrounding Baveno, now part of the Sesia-Valgrande UNESCO Geopark.