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Sorico

San Miro, Sorico

Visit duration
1 h – 1 h 30
Booking
Not required
Area
Upper Lake
San Miro's bell tower and stone walls on the slope, the lake and mountains behind, under a sky with clouds.Halina Frederiksen · CC BY 3.0
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San Miro's bell tower and stone walls on the slope, the lake and mountains behind, under a sky with clouds.

Halina Frederiksen · CC BY 3.0

Why go

The church of San Miro holds the hermit's tomb on the slope above Sorico.

Romanesque in origin, probably twelfth-century, it is recorded from 1286 and was initially dedicated to San Michele.

Miro was born in Canzo in 1345, died at Sorico in 1381 and was buried here. The discovery of his body in 1452 began a period of extension and decoration, followed by reconsecration in 1456. The right aisle preserves fourteenth-century frescoes. Painted Madonnas, a Crucifixion and a Saint Sebastian date from the fifteenth-century renewal; in 1526 Sigismondo De Magistris painted the cycle of Saint Anthony. Legend tells of Miro reaching Sorico across the lake on his cloak.

  • The view over the top end of the lake and the Pian di Spagna.
  • The frescoes by Sigismondo De Magistris and from the fifteenth century.

Highlights

  • Sigismondo De Magistris's cycle of Saint Anthony (1526)
  • The fourteenth-century frescoes in the right aisle
  • The bell tower on the slope above the lake
  • The spring of San Miro, of 1598, on the way up

Getting there

  • From Piazza Cesare Battisti in Sorico, cross the main road, pass the bridge over the San Miro stream and climb by the cobbles of the Antica Regina and then a mule track through the woods; the route includes a paved flight of steps.

Accessibility

  • The route up from Sorico follows paved steps and a sloping mule track towards the church.

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