Overlooking the upper Valdantena valley and located not far from the nearby hamlet of Montelungo, the village of Cavezzana d’Antena is a hamlet rich in history. Over time, it has preserved its faith and age-old customs: divided into two parts, an Upper Village with the Church of the Assumption of Mary and a Lower Village with a sulphur spring, the town has maintained the tradition of the Madonna dei Magnani, referred to the statue of the Virgin of Grace, for which there is a written record from 1684. The statue itself is certainly much older and began to be called “dei Magnani” in 1703, when the Magnani spouses, through a testamentary legacy, obligated in perpetuity their heirs and descendants to carry it in procession every year at the beginning of September.

Throughout the 20th century, this tradition was observed with diminishing fervour until it was eventually abandoned, and the statue was removed from the church, only to be returned many years later, in 1995.

Testifying to the close connections among the inhabitants of the valley’s villages and the network of trails and mule tracks that traversed it, a beautiful single-arch bridge still spans the small Lonzola stream along the road to the villages of Cargalla and Montelungo. The current structure, likely rebuilt several times, still bears the date “1842” on the keystone of its arch.