In 1360 a shepherd from Camporosso found a statue of the Virgin Mary at the top of Mount Lussari.
He immediately took it down to the valley and gave it to the surprised parish priest, who carefully locked the statue in a cupboard.
But the next day the statue was back on the mountain.
After the strange event had repeated itself several times, a chapel was erected on the place where the statue had been found. Historically, the
period of pilgrimage lasted from the feast of St. John the Baptist (June 24th) to the first Sunday of October.
Records over the centuries describe the organized processions of pilgrims who would come year after year from Carinthia, Slovenia and Friuli.
Several priests work in the sanctuary, offering masses in Italian, Slovenian and German and taking confession.
The Madonna of Monte Lussari is also known as the Madonna of the Peoples of Europe.
At the top of the mountain there is a small village with restaurants and shops.
The mountain can also be reached with the ski lift (gondola lift) that starts from the village of Camporosso and in the winter months it is possible to ski on the Di Prampero slope (which has been used for the Women’s Downhill World Cup competitions several times).