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| Lake Como • Alto Lario • Lecco • Como • Art and culture • Sport and nature |
| LAKE COMO - ART AND CULTURE |
| BELLAGIO - Basilica of S. Giacomo: built in the XII century; to the inside are respectively preserved different Romanesque sculptures and two fifteenth-century tables of school umbra and lombarda; - Villa Melzi: it is a building from the neoclassic lines, built between 1810 and 1815; to the inside among numerous works of art, there are painting of Appiani and sculptures of the Canova; a vast park surrounds the villa, among the trees, Egyptian sculptures, etrusco-Romans, Renaissance and neoclassic; - Villa Serbelloni: built in the XVI century and practically referred the following century, currently introduces it as a building from the nineteenth-century air, and it incorporates a Romanesque church; its park is considered one of the most beautiful of Italy. TREMEZZO - Villa Carlotta: famous for the great park and for the collection of art that guards, it was erect in the XVIII century at the marquis Giorgio Clerici, to which refers the great one “C” inserted in the gate to Lake. The villa contains marbles of Canova, among which the famous one “Love and Psyche”, paintings of Heyez, tapestries and furniture of the XVIII and XIX century; today the villa belongs to the State; - Villa “La Quiete”: situated in fraction Bolvedro, was erect in the XVIII century and in it the abbot poet Giuseppe Parini resided; of Alone ownership of earl Sola Cabiati, is sumptuously furnished; - Villa “La Carlia”: valuable construction of halves the ‘700 MENAGGIO - Church of Santo Stefano: construction of ‘600, on precedents buildings paleocristiani and Romanesque, it was fresco, in 1899, from the Tagliaferri. Flanked from a nineteenth-century bell tower, preserve a cross astile in silver, of 1539, besides the paintings of Five hundred and Six hundred. - Castle of Menaggio: the Castle is of the X century and rises on the dominant high ground the country, to precipice on the stream Senagra. during the war between Como and Milan, in 1124 the Castle was attached from the Comaschis and the Menagginis opposed resistance in the bell tower. The Castle must be destroyed, in 1523, from the Leagues Grigie of the grigionesis, that brought on the Lario the Protestantism. COLICO - Fort of Fuentes:z The ruins of the Fort of Fuentes rise on the hill of Montecchio and, although the luxuriant vegetation hides to her least careful eye, they are partly visible on the right crossing the road that conducts from the Valtellina toward Colic. To reach the summit of the hill is necessary to leave the car near the group of houses of the Monteggiolo, small agglomeration of houses in the commune of Colico, and to continue along a comfortable little road that actually climbs to conduct to the entry of the Fort. The complex introduces it as a construction with bastions to irregular plant surrounded by continuous embankment in stone of local extraction (length 300 meters and width 125). Behind the building, in strategic position, the rests of the "Pliers" can be admired, a real military trap constituted by a series of embankment whose purpose was, in case of attack, that to revolve the enemy on more sides making him/it unarmed. In reality the remained testimonies are not those to the period of the Spanish domination. Before the beginning of the First World war the "Pliers" was destroyed and to its place eight bases were predisposed, bases for guns. The army feared a possible attack Austrian from the Valtellina or from the Valchiavenna and definite therefore to use the Fort as military ambush. Here in reality the guns were never used in how much he opted for a new construction, the Strong Montecchio-Lusardi, on a hill in the proximities. The complex was in origin also equipped with hospital, cemetery, barracks and pillbox. The residences of the soldiers were situated more in low. This fortification was connected to a whole series of outposts, among which the principals are the Castle of Fontanedo, the Turret of Curcio, the two Towers of Montecchio Nord and the Stallion of Gera Lario. The jobs for the building of the Fort begin in the 1603 bottom the direction of the military engineer Gabrio Busca and for wish of the Spanish Governor of Milan Don Pedro Enriquez de Açevedo, Count of Fuentes. The purpose of this construction is the defense of the border north of the Spanish dominoes against the Protestant Grigionis appropriated in Valtellina. The Fort doesn't know important sieges defeated of it but its presence for well 2 centuries all it takes is for removing from the enemies every velleity to experiment its war power. In 1782, the Fort is suppressed by the emperor Giuseppe II, which had visited it in 1769 and he had pronounced militarily it useless. In 1796 it is dismantled for wanting of Napoleone. For the whole XIX century is left in a state of total abandonment, actually to when to the beginning of the XX century assumes the position of observatory and subsidiary posting to the artilleries in support to the Fort Montecchio-Lusardi. Today the strong one is of ownership of the province of Lecco. - Fort Montecchio / Lusardi: Built between 1911 and 1914, the Fortress Montecchio-Lusardi is the only soldier Fort Italian of the first one '900 that is reached intact there in every particular. Principal function of the Fort was that to check the roads of the Spluga, of the Maloja and of the Stelvio from a part and the oriental and western banks of the Lake of Como from the other. The Fort (also because of the distance from the front), he/she was practically inactive during the whole first world war. The Fort was not even employed in military actions during the second world war: the only hits of gun were shot in fact after the strong one was occupied by the Germans after the armistice. subsequently as deposit of ammunition was used and finally surrendered to the public demanio. The visit of the Fort allows to observe the architectural solutions, techniques and organizational (some of which indeed innovative for the epoch) adopted to the beginning of the century in the building of the soldiers Fortress. The principal attraction of the Fort is represented by the armament however: four guns, that could have reached a range since 12 to the 14 kms, with well revolving installations protected every from a steel dome. The mechanisms of operation are intact: it is in fact still possible to rotate without work the armored domes, from the weight of almost 100 tons every, and to lift the reeds of the guns. Inside the Fort a small museum of the war is prepared, besides entitled to two protagonists of the history of the strong same: The partisan Vittorino Canclini and the commander Alberto Orio. PIONA - Abbey: it is a situated conventual complex on the homonym peninsula, in beautiful panoramic position. It was founded by the monks Cluniacensi in the Middle Ages, to garrison of the zone and the navigation, but went decaying more and more up to be suppressed in the XVII century. From the thirties it is of ownership of the monks Cistercensi, of Calamari that produce various liqueurs among which the famous ones “Imperial Drops”. Among the most interesting elements of the complex there are: the Romanesque Church of S. Nicolao of the XI century and the Cloister in style Romanesque/gotic of the XIII century, with good-looking frescos on the walls of Romanesque-Byzantine intonation. DOMASO - Church of S. Bartolomeo: erected in the XVI century, on a medieval structure, introduces above the portal of the right side, one “Stone” of school of the “Rodari”. GERA LARIO - Church of S. Vincenzo: in the place where a Roman villa rose, of which are visible rests of a mosaic of the II century, rose a Romanesque church (centuries XI-XII) that was reconstructed in Four hundred. The inside contains frescos of school lombarda of the XVI century and wooden sculptures late Renaissance; GRAVEDONA - Church of S. Maria of the Tiglio: Romanesque building, in marbles white and black, of the first halves the XII century. To the inside there is an unchanged Roman macaw, a leftover of floor musivo of the V century, a baptismal tub to immersion to the preceding baptistery of S. Giovanni Battista, a wooden crucifix and frescos of the centuries XIII-XVI; SORICO - Church of S. Stefano: placed side by side from an imposing bell tower of Romanesque imprint, introduces it with 1703 Baroque reconstruction lines; to the inside there is a Renaissance trittico of school lombarda; - Church of S. Miro: it rises above the inhabited area and it is destination of pilgrimages for the rain; VARENNA - Villa Monastero: in the place where an ancient convent of nuns rose, it rises the villa that the numerous owners in the time, widened and enriched; full of works of art, it is edged by a garden of notable interest for the beauty and the rarity of the plants; - Oratorio of S. Giovanni: building of Romanesque origin, was more times modified; to the inside, preserve frescos of school lombarda four-sixteenth-century; - Castle of Vezio: it is found on the Fop mountain behind Varenna. Of the construction, of which the origins are not known and exactly that it belongs to the Sfondrati, the central mastio and the curtain of boundaries remain. LECCO - and the Places Manzoniani - Bridge Azzone Visconti: built between 1336 and 1338. Of strategic importance for the proximity of the Venetian border, was strengthened and garrisoned by a garrison with an autonomous own guard. - Villa Manzoni: residence of the family Manzoni from two centuries, was sold in 1818 by the writer to the family of Scola, that maintained it unchanged for then to surrender it in the years '60 to the Commune of Lecco. In this Villa the Manzoni almost all spent his infancy and his adolescence. the building currently entertains the Museum Manzoniano, that exposes, first editions, manuscripts, heirlooms related to the life and to the works of Alessandro Manzoni. - Don's Rodrigo Bulding: built at the end of the XVI century from the Arrigonis, rival family of the Manzonis, it passed then earl Salazar and it was dejected in 1937 to build a villa. - Fortress (Castle of the unnamed one): fortification of border between the Dukedom in Milan and the Republic in Venice, was destroyed and abandoned after the war of the league of Cambrai. - Malgrate: chapel of the corpses of Plague; after the 1630 plague in the whole territory of Lecco they were erect chapels devoted to the corpses of the great epidemic. This is one of the little remained and the best preserved of the Lecchese. |
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