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Gravedona ed Uniti

San Giuliano, Stazzona

Stazzona's church, on the mountain above Gravedona, with its great portico, the Fiammenghino's Rosary chapel and the organ given in 1771 by villagers who had emigrated to Palermo.

Visit duration
20–40 min
Booking
Not required
Area
Upper Lake
The white church with its portico and bell tower on the churchyard, and below the houses, the blue lake and the mountains with a snowy peak.Emibuzz · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The white church with its portico and bell tower on the churchyard, and below the houses, the blue lake and the mountains with a snowy peak.

Emibuzz · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

San Giuliano is Stazzona's parish church, above Gravedona, with a broad portico and a churchyard facing the lake.

Recorded as early as 1337, it was renewed in the seventeenth century and became a parish church in 1886. Inside are a single nave, side chapels and three transverse arches. In the Rosary chapel, the Fiammenghino painted the fifteen mysteries and scenes from the Virgin's life among gilded stucco. Giovan Paolo Recchi frescoed the chancel vault in 1672. On its side walls, Giulio Quaglio painted the Massacre of the Innocents and the Last Supper in 1726. The organ of 1771 was commissioned by villagers who had emigrated to Palermo; the high altar is in coloured marble.

  • The churchyard above the upper lake, facing the mountains of the far shore.
  • The Fiammenghino's Rosary chapel and Giulio Quaglio's paintings.

Highlights

  • Giulio Quaglio's frescoes of 1726
  • The organ of 1771, a gift from the emigrants in Palermo

Getting there

  • From Brenzio a nearly level road, Via alla Chiesa, leads to Stazzona in about a kilometre, with the view over the upper lake; from Gravedona you go up by Consiglio di Rumo and Taiana.

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