Sacro Monte di Ossuccio

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Sacred Mountain of Ossuccio Sacro Monte di Ossuccio Santuario Madonna del Soccorso
The Sanctuary atop its crag, as depicted in a fresco in Capella XIV.
Religion
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Province	Como
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	National monument
Status	Active
Location
Location	Ossuccio, Italy
Geographic coordinates	45°58′29″N 9°10′38″E / 45.974644°N 9.177289°E / 45.974644; 9.177289
Architecture
Type	Church

The Sacro Monte di Ossuccio (literally "Sacred Mount of Ossuccio") is one of the nine sacri monti in the Italian regions of Lombardy and Piedmont, in northern Italy, which were inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 2003.

The devotional complex is located in Ossuccio, on a prealpine crag some 200 metres above the western shore Lake Como, facing Isola Comacina and some 25 km from the city of Como. Surrounded by olive groves and woodland, it is quite isolated from other buildings. The fourteen chapels, constructed between 1635 and 1710 in the typical Baroque style reflecting the Counter Reformation ethos of the sacri monti movement, are joined by a path which leads up to a pre-existing sanctuary of 1532 placed on the summit and dedicated to La Beata Vergine del Soccorso.