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Pianello del Lario

San Martino, Pianello del Lario

Pianello's parish church a few metres from the lake, at Calozzo: born in the estate of the abbey of San Carpoforo, a parish since 1472, with its fifteenth-century bell tower, Isidoro Bianchi's frescoes, the tabernacle of 1536 and the house where Saint Luigi Guanella was parish priest.

Visit duration
15–30 min
Booking
Not required
Area
Centro Lago
The pale church with its spired bell tower on the shore, beside the walkway over the lake, with mountains behind.BKLuis · CC BY-SA 3.0
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The pale church with its spired bell tower on the shore, beside the walkway over the lake, with mountains behind.

BKLuis · CC BY-SA 3.0

Why go

San Martino is Pianello's parish church at Calozzo, near the lake and pier, with a columned portico and a fifteenth-century bell tower with a conical spire.

Probably early medieval in origin, it belonged to the abbey of San Carpoforo and became a parish in 1472. The Renaissance doorway bears the date 1534; the bronze door shows eight scenes from Blessed Chiara Bosatta's life. The single nave holds the sixteenth-century triptych of the Virgin between Saints Anthony Abbot and Bernard, Isidoro Bianchi's apse frescoes and the marble tabernacle of 1536 by Bernardino Chatanio de Saliana. The processional cross of 1489 is by Francesco Ser Gregori. Saint Luigi Guanella lived in the adjoining parish house as parish priest from 1881 to 1890; a chapel is dedicated to him.

  • A church on the lakefront bound up with the village's history since the Middle Ages.
  • Isidoro Bianchi's frescoes and the tabernacle of 1536.

Highlights

  • The fifteenth-century bell tower with its conical spire
  • The bronze door with the life of Blessed Chiara Bosatta
  • Francesco Ser Gregori's processional cross of 1489

Getting there

  • It stands at Calozzo, a few metres from Pianello's lakefront and pier, along the lakeside walk from Musso to Cremia.

Accessibility

  • The lakeside walk from Musso to Cremia passes beside the church. The route is almost level, on unpaved ground and porphyry paving.

On the map

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