Abbadia Lariana - Civico Museo Setificio Monti (Silk Museum)
In about 1818, Pietro Monti converted an old building for felting wool, along with the irrigation ditch and hydraulic wheel, into a silk spinning mill. In 1869 he extended the building and added a new...
Read moreCampodolcino - Muvis, Museo della Via Spluga e della Val San Giacomo (ethnographic museum)
Entering the Museum is like taking a trip back in time: exhibits relate the story of lives of sacrifice which clearly hardened the people subject to them, existing with extraordinary dedication in the...
Read moreCentro Valle Intelvi - Museo di Erbonne (Museum of Erbonne)
A short deviation of about 3 km from the Prabello hut along stage 02 of the Via dei Monti Lariani leads to the village of Erbonne where you can visit a small museum housed in a financial police statio...
Read moreChiavenna - Mulino Moro di Bottonera (Mill of Bottonera)
A rare example of industrial architecture. Situated in the old artisan district of Chiavenna, the Bottonera Mill is a fine and rare example of industrial architecture.
Now a museum, the building live...
Read moreChiavenna - Museo del tesoro (Treasure Museum)
The Treasure Museum is located inside the picturesque collegiate church of San Lorenzo, a complex dating back to the 5th century. The arcade was made between the 17th and 18th century with the aim of ...
Read moreChiavenna - Parco Paradiso e Museo archeologico (Botanical garden Paradiso and Archaeological Museum)
Botanical garden. The “Paradiso” is a luscious and extensive botanical garden which along with flora and fauna features some fascinating archaeological and historic phenomena and which affords som...
Read moreCodogna - Museo etnografico e naturalistico (Ethnographic and naturalistic museum)
The Museo Etnografico della Val Sanagra (Sanagra valley ethnographic museum) is housed in the splendid 18th-century town hall building called Villa Camozzi. Designed as a study centre for the valley, ...
Read moreColico - Forte di Fuentes (Fort fo Fuentes)
Built in 1603 to defend the Duchy of Milan from its Grisonian enemies, it was named after the Spanish Governor Pedro Enriquez de Acevedo Count of Fuentes. It was erected in record time by the military...
Read moreColico - Forte Montecchio Nord (Fort of Montecchio Nord)
Colico was chosen as the site of this fort for its position at the end of the Tellina valley, a route traditionally used by invading armies. It was completed at the end of 1914 and was Italy?s most te...
Read moreDosso del Liro - Museo del Dialetto (Museum of Dialect)
This museum was set up to catalogue, take a census and keep records of the dialects of the Alto (Upper) lake region, by gathering information and studying the history and evolution of these tongues.
Read moreEcomuseo Adda di Leonardo (Leonardo's Adda Eco museum)
The open-air Eco museum is a route consisting of 14 stations and 47 stops to discover Leonardo's footprints left in the area. The boundaries of the Eco museum, to be visited on foot or by bicycle, ar...
Read moreGarlate - Civico Museo della Seta Abegg (Silk Museum)
The Abegg Silk Museum is located in a spinning mill of eighteenth-century origin, on the shores of Garlate Lake, surrounded by a mulberry garden. It exhibits discoveries, inventions and machines for t...
Read moreLecco - Palazzo delle Paure (Palace of Fears)
Built between 1902 and 1905, until 1964 it was the headquarters of the Finance office (“Intendenza di Finanza”), the land registry (“Catasto”) and the customs (“Dogana”), so it was given t...
Read moreLecco - Torre Viscontea (Visconti Tower)
This is the only part of the Visconti fortifications to have survived the demolition ordered at the end of the 18th century. The triangular-shaped fortified village was completely surrounded by defens...
Read moreLezzeno - Museo storico della nautica (Historical nautical museum)
The museum was set up by Cantieri Molinari, a renowned construction firm based in Como. It houses numerous wooden and fibreglass hull boats, the result of technical research and of the genius and pass...
Read moreMandello del Lario - Museo Moto Guzzi (Moto Guzzi museum)
The Moto Guzzi Museum is located in the factory in Mandello del Lario where the 'legendary' bikes have been built ever since 1921. All of its racers were made here up until 1957, when Guzzi stopped ...
Read moreMese - Museo del latte (Milk museum)
The building is located in the main street of the town center, via don Lucchinetti, at the intersection with via Piatti. The building, now site of the Library, in the past housed the dairy. On the bas...
Read moreSan Pietro - Torre medioevale del Culumbèe (Medieval tower of Culumbèe)
The tower stands in the old centre of San Pietro, on the road leading to the church of the same name (Saint Peter's). To date we have no reliable historical or bibliographic records showing when the ...
Read moreSan Vittore - Palazzo Viscardi (Viscardi Palace)
The building was erected next to the collegiate church in 1548 and altered between 1680 and 1700 by Giovanni Antonio Viscardi, architect at the court of the Bavarian electoral prince. Of noble proport...
Read moreVaprio d'Adda - Casa del Custode delle Acque (House of the Water Guardian)
The House of the Water Guardian is located between the Martesana canal and the Adda River in Vaprio d'Adda. The basement houses the interactive gallery "Leonardo in Adda". Three rooms where it is p...
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