The bitterness of the Ghisallo , long a typical product canzese , owes its name to a mountain pass road that connects the Vallassina with the top of the Larian Triangle. Just a few meters from the pass is a small shrine, the Santuario della Madonna del Ghisallo , a well-known in particular for cycling fans after it was proclaimed by Pope Pius XII in 1946 as Patron Saint of Cyclists . And it is just around the cycling world that does this liquor. The year was 1948, when the great cyclist Fausto Coppi , called the Heron, or champion, climbed with elegance Ghisallo during the Giro di Lombardia smashing the record of the climb while the world champion then limped in office and surrendered. The heron seemed to fly.
E 'in this atmosphere of general euphoria of winning given that the Liquorificio Scannagatta, producer of Vespetrò, decided to put into production a liquor herbal Larian Triangle, dedicating it to the rider .
However, even if his reputation was well known to diminish this risk, it was no longer produced for 18 years until the intervention of the family Gandola.
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