Guesthouse of the Sanctuary of Graglia
The origin of the Sanctuary of Graglia dates back to 1616, when there were plans to create a Sacred Mount of 100 votive chapels on St. Charles Hill. But the work encountered many difficulties and finally the project was abandoned. In 1659, plans were made to transform the votive chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Loreto into what is now the Shrine. The 1930s saw the creation of the present little garden of Our Lady, characterized by the splendid stone "burnel" (fountain). The large church, with a Greek-cross plan, is 42 meters long and 32 meters wide and has a 38-meter-high octagonal dome decorated with perspective effects by Fabrizio Galliari.
Our progress is slow but deliberate.
We are a social cooperative-tour operator, a network of individuals and associations in Italy and around the world. Our story began in the late 1990s, when a handful of people began to question the meaning of mass tourism. Traveling and getting to know projects related to fair trade gave birth to the idea of starting a social enterprise that would disrupt the paradigms of tourism and work in direct contact with the civil society of the places visited, with people and associations directly involved in development projects.