Arcumeggia (Arcümégia in local dialect) is a fraction of the municipality of Casalzuigno in the province of Varese, in Italy. Overview The place is known because in 1956 the Organization Provincial for the Tourism decided to turn it into a painted village. After such decision, came in the country artists as Ferruccio Ferrazzi, Aldo Carpi, Sante Monachesi, Aligi Sassu, Ernesto Treccani, Achille Funi, Giuseppe Migneco, Gianni Dova, Gianfilippo Usellini, Innocente Salvini, Giovanni Brancaccio, Bruno Saetti, Enzo Morelli, Remo Brindisi, Fiorenzo Tomea, Eugenio Tomiolo, Francesco Menzio, Ilario Rossi, Giuseppe Montanari, Cristoforo De Amicis, Luigi Montanarini, Umberto Faini, Antonio Pedretti and Albino Reggiori. The paintings, performed with the technique of the fresco, are on the external walls of the houses of the village: Giovanni Brancaccio: "Girl at the window", 1956 Remo Brindisi: "Inhabitants and jobs of the place", 1957 Aldo Carpi: "Sant'Ambrogio blesses Arcumeggia", 1966, "Divine Lamb" (ceramics), 1967 Cristoforo de Amicis "Madonna and angel", 1958 Gianni Dova: "The bullfight", 1964 Umberto Faini: "Allegory of the mural decoration", 1994 Ferruccio Ferrazzi: "Waiting", 1956 Achille Funi: "Madonnina", 1956 Giuseppe Migneco: "The emigrant's departure", 1962 Francesco Menzio: "Children among the trees", 1956 Sante Monachesi: "Gea’s triumph", 1959 Giuseppe Montanari: "St. Martin and the poor man", 1956 Luigi Montanarini: "Composition", 1959 Enzo Morelli: "The Samaritane at the well", 1956 Antonio Pedretti: "In the Alps, heart of Europe, the roots of the European union", 2001 Bruno Saetti: "Maternity", 1956 Innocente Salvini: "The division of the polenta in family", 1971 Aligi Sassu: "Racing cyclists", 1967 and "St. Martin", 1991 Fiorenzo Tomea: "The Crucified", 1956 Eugenio Tomiolo: "Hope", 1956 Ernesto Treccani: "Rural composition", 1974 Gianfilippo Usellini: "The emigrant's return", 1956, "Sant'Antonio ",1967, "St. Rocco", 1967 and "Severin, drik little wine!!!", 1964. Close to the church, there is a Way of the Cross, with the stations painted by 11 different artists: I - Giuseppe Montanari: Jesus is condemned to death, 1963 II - Sante Monachesi: Jesus is given his cross, 1959 III - Aldo Carpi: Jesus falls the first time, 1963 IV - Remo Brindisi: Jesus meets Maria, 1960 V - Enzo Morelli: Jesus helped by Symone of Cirene, 1963 VI - Ilario Rossi: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus, 1960 VII - Luigi Montanarini: Jesus falls the second time, 1959 VIII – Giuseppe Montanari: Jesus meets the pious women, within 1960 IX - Gianfilippo Usellini: Jesus falls the third time, after April 1960 X - Giovanni Brancaccio: Jesus