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| Lake Como • Alto Lario • Lecco • Como • Art and culture • Sport and nature |
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| Lecco introduces it with its outskirtses barricaded among sour mountains, that withdraw it to give coasts life from the oriental branch of the Lario rich of small valleys and sprinkled by the inhabitants of the numerous ancient neighborhoods. Abandoned on the moraines of a kind of bay, Lecco has draw for centuries from the completeness of the various elements of nature a great call to the painters, to the literates, to the scientists, beginning from Leonardo that pleased him to squirt in the albums of Windsor the Grgnes and the same Basin of Lecco. In reason for its strategic position, to the meeting among an old mountainous run and the street of traffic once represented by the Lake and by the Adda, the zone has densely been lived always, an own artisan and commercial tradition living, founded on one side on the workshop of the iron and from the other upon the market. Of the complex stories of the city, of probable Roman foundation, then Longobarda fortitude and Carolingian county, a lot of legends remain; well more alive instead the tradition formed following the “Historia” of Manzoni. Besides the tied up places presumably to the story, it stays embodies the Villa of Caleotto, the beautiful house that from 1615 was inhabited from the ancestors of the writer and it was from him sold in 1818. It opens behind the country the “Mountain of Acquate” once pleasant hill cultivated to vineyards and cereals, today urbanized in way however to allow the intact view of the rural villages. From Versasio, a funivia climbs to the Plans of Erna, equipped for the winter ski, but also destination of the trips in spring. Numerous itineraries can be conducted on the hills; the myriad of sporting associations manages on these crags attractive shelters, recalling vast layers of population to the love for the nature, giving so life to glorious groups what: the Stoppani, the SEL and the CAI (1874), all active ones in the reclamation of the layouts, in the system of signs and in the cataloguing of the flora. To North of the city impresses the vertical wall of Medale, gym of the rociatoris and the school of the "Spiders of Lecco." MALGRATE The last basin of the Lario, in front of Lecco, it shines of a little known pearl of lake country, Malgrate, that lengthens with the inhabited area on the coastline that conducts to Bellagio and on the band of moraines terraced to the strata of the Montebarro, shed of ronchi and villas. The activity of Malgrate, also supported from good hotels and restaurants, it is vivacious also counting above a mercatino of antiquariato that on first Sundays of the month are held. MANDELLO DI THE LARIO On the lake the ancient suburb of Mandello is, that leans out to the waters vast parvises, the dock with floral station of the boats and the mighty Tower Pretorio. The social center of the town gravitates however on the place of Tonazinico, near the officnes of the Motorbike Guzzi, initiated in 1921 and risen then to international fame; to the inside there is a specific Museum of the Motorcycle. Following the course of the stream Meria, that finds its origins on the Alpe behind the “Sasso Cavallo”, destination of pleasant excursions, parties are met fractions: Rongio, Somana and Olcio. to Somana it can put head an itinerary for you pave mulattiere that corresponds to the old ducal road, antecedent to the Stelvio Road opened on the Lake by the Austrians, now note as the Wayfarer's Path. The layout crosses the whole Coast, maintaining itself on the coast 300 - 700 ms, with unimaginable views up to touch, after 35 Kms, the Madonna of Valpozzo in the place Piantedo. |
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