Lecco

Antonia Pozzi's House and Poetry Trail, Pasturo

Visit duration: 1 h – 2 h
Booking: Recommended
Area: Lecco Branch

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Why go

Antonia Pozzi's house in Pasturo is the eighteenth-century villa where the poet and photographer spent her holidays.

On Via Manzoni, at the foot of the Grigna, it preserves memories of her stays and work. It is a stop on the poetry trail inaugurated in 2012, the centenary of her birth. Twenty-two panels pair poems, diaries and letters with Pozzi's photographs and pictures of her. The route passes the wash-house on the Cariola stream, the garden gate, the nursery school named after her and the cemetery where she is buried.

The places of Pasturo in Antonia Pozzi's poems and photographs, panel after panel.
The poet's study, in the house at the foot of the Grigna, to visit by booking.

Highlights

The poet's study and the room of mementoes
The little gate at the end of the garden, towards the Grigna
The wash-house along the Cariola stream
The grave in Pasturo's cemetery

Getting there

The house is on Via Manzoni in Pasturo, in the Valsassina, and the route winds through the village streets; from Lecco the road climbs into the valley by way of Ballabio.