Abbadia Lariana - Pozzo con affresco di Borbino (Well with fresco of Borbino)
The hamlet of Borbino, perched on the mountain of the same name, offers some interesting views of ancient buildings and the surrounding countryside.
Read moreBrunate - Funicolare (Funicolar)
The impressive funicular starts from lakeside in Como (Piazza Alcide De Gasperi, not far from Piazza Cavour along lakefront). It runs up the tree-lined ridge of the mount (with the view of the entire ...
Read moreBrunate - Tre fontane (three fountains)
This is a public fountain with three mouths, built in the Thirties for an advertising campaign. It features a bass-relief and is engraved with the words 'Cordial Campari', a reference to the famous ...
Read moreCama - Grotti di Cama
Old cellars at the lower edge of a chestnut grove: small rectangular stone buildings (17th-19th century) once used for storing wine and other kinds of food. The group of caves as they are today probab...
Read moreCasate - Piazzola del carretto
In the middle of the square there is a two-wheeled barrow which historians believe to be an underwater relic linked to an old furnace in the village in use until the Fifties.
Read moreCentro Valle Intelvi - Baita e Bolla di Ermogna (Huts and bull of Ermogna)
Located in the small hamlet of Ermogna, this large natural basin has been adapted so that it can be used to collect rain water and serve as a drinking trough for animals. Near the farmhouse you can ju...
Read moreComo - Monumento ai caduti di Como (Monument to the fallen of Como)
This imposing 33-metre-high tower, designed by the famous rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni, stands beside the small temple. The memorial contains the names of 650 fallen soldiers from Como duri...
Read moreComo - Tempietto Voltiano (small temple of Alessandro Volta))
Built in 1927 to celebrate the centenary of Alessandro Volta's death. The temple contains busts, bas-reliefs and memorabilia of the famous scientist and professor from Como.
Read moreGordona - Ponte sul torrente Boggia e la Cappella omonima (bridge over the Boggia stream and the homonymous chapel)
Resting on a boulder and bearing engravings, one of which commemorates the visit of Archduke Ranieri, brother of Emperor Francis I of Austria, in 1816. The Boggia Bridge, commonly called "Roman" but...
Read moreGrono di Roveredo - Ponte del Ram (Bridge of Ram)
Situated to the south of the village, at the entrance to the Calanca valley, there is an elegant twin-arch stone bridge over the abandoned bed of the river Calancasca. Extended in 1822 when the San Be...
Read moreGrono di Roveredo - Vecchia Birreria (Old Brewery)
Horizontal late-Neoclassical building (now a restaurant) along the cantonal road, with a tree-lined square and the tower of the former Tognola brewery.
Read moreLivo - Ponte di Dangri (Bridge of Dangri)
The stone bridge in the small hamlet of Dangri crosses the Livio mountain stream
Read moreLostallo - Centrale elettrica ELIN di Rura (ELIN power station in Rura)
This is an example of an industrial building of architectural importance: constructed by Giovanni Lombardi, to a project by Carlo Basilico (1956), it has a rectangular plan (1958), a fa?ade with an al...
Read moreLostallo - Stalle di Cabié (Cabié stables)
Reached by crossing the countryside towards Cabbiolo, you can admire a group of 13 stables of great historical-cultural and landscape quality, forming a harmonious nucleus of rural buildings, included...
Read moreMesocco - Ponte Purlingheni (Bridge of Purlingheni)
A few hundred metres below the former railway station, towards the hamlet of Benabbia, you will come across this single-arch stone bridge over a gorge created by the river Moesa. Much of the original ...
Read morePalanzo - Antico torchio da vino
Dating back to 1572. Legend tells that it was made from a walnut trunk and used on the same place where the tree had grown. Once the press was built, it was erected around the building that contains i...
Read moreSan Bernardino - Antica Fonte minerale (Ancient mineral fountain)
This building was erected in 1829 by Paolo Battaglia, a wealthy trader from Milan. A medallion above a mineral water drinking fountain commemorates Battaglia's work.
Read moreSan Bernardino - Diga del Lago d’Isola (Lago d'Isola dam)
Just before reaching the village of San Bernardino, you will touch the lake, which has a capacity of 6.5 million cubic metres of water. The arched dam, 45 metres high, was built in 1960. The valley pa...
Read moreSan Bernardino - Hospice
On the pass, near Moesola Lake, today it houses a restaurant; it is a neoclassical construction in the form of a parallelepiped dating from 1824-25 with a pavilion roof, originally with a central driv...
Read moreSoazza - Former railway station
Enlarged and renovated, now houses the Cultural Centre. It includes a municipal and regional library and two small permanent exhibitions, one dedicated to wool processing and the other to soapstone (...
Read moreSoazza - The Roggia (irrigation ditch)
It runs down through the centre of the village and used to supply a dozen mills, a few lathes for processing soapstone, a forge and a crowd (buildings that have now disappeared or are used for other p...
Read moreVarenna - Cava bassa (Low quarry)
Along the Via alla Cava Bassa in Varenna there is a black marble quarry that was used at the time
of Maria Theresa of Austria.
Read moreVarenna - Ex funicolare di Regoledo (Ex cable railway of Regoledo)
The path crosses the cutting where the old cable railway used to run, linking the Lecco to Sondrio railway line with Regoledo and, in particular, a hydrotherapy centre that opened there in 1858. Cesar...
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