Rustico in Fontaneto d'Agogna

The area sits on the Novara side of the lower Sesia plain, with flat to gently rolling farmland and scattered woods. The Agogna stream runs through the municipality and the Sesia valley lies to the west. Lake Orta is within about 15 km, with the ridge of the pre-Alps rising beyond it. Borgomanero is the nearest town of size, with rail links, services and a working town centre; Novara is farther south and matters more for higher-order services than for the immediate landscape. This part of upper eastern Piedmont is known for mixed agriculture and for access to the lakes district around Orta and Maggiore.