Badia di Dulzago is situated southwest of the village on the remains of the glacial hills in the Terdoppio river valley, in proximity of some water springs. This morphologic peculiarity likely suggested the name of “dulcis acquae”. The old village of Dulzago, which was situated to the left of the to-day’s Badia, was mentioned in a paper of the year 892, which referred about a land exchange between the Bishop of Novara and a certain Curiberto of Dulzago: later some papers of 1013 and 1132 confirm a Bishop Litifredo’s possession. Today nothing of the old Dulzago village still exists. The present Badia was built up in the XII century and wasn’t a strictly religious place only, but also an outstanding agricultural centre as monks and farmers living in the complex reclaimed the surrounding area in a short time making those agricultural lands very fertile. The Badia was structurally organized like a real housing complex, where there were the abbot’s and canons’ accommodations, the farmers’ houses and eventually the cemetery. The church is dedicated to St Giulio and is contemporary to the abbatial nucleus. It has the nave, which is covered with a groin ribbed vault, and two aisles with barrel vaults. They finish with three semicircular apses. The frescoes painted on the wall west of the dome cladding are interesting; they represent Angels and Saints. These and other little contemporary painting fragments were found out inside the church after the remake works. The Abbey was actually widely restored and decorated between the sixteenth and seventeenth century. The wall-paintings and stuccoes, which changed the original Romanesque structure, are many. The front, rebuilt in the XVIII century, is surmounted by a gable. Two closed semicircular portals, opened in the lunettes only, are shaped next to the entry. Saint Giulio, a work of the local painter Clemente Salsa, is depicted in the lunette over the main portal. The eighteenth-century belfry stands on the left side. It was built up after the will of the General Abbot Lorenzo Cristiani. The outer apsidal zone is the soundest abbey part, where valuable vaulted archlets lean on small supports made in baked clay. Today the abbatial complex is the destination of several visitors, who can find there the incorrupt suggestion and the sense of peace of that period, typical of the cult and prayer places. Every year, end of January, the traditional “sagra della fagiolata” (“feast of the bean soup) takes place appealing a crowd of worshippers and onlookers fond also of the good cooking attractions.