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San Miro al Monte Hermitage, Canzo

A small seventeenth-century church with its little hermits' convent in the gorge of the Val Ravella above Canzo, where by tradition Saint Miro lived: reached on foot from the Fonti di Gajum.

Visit duration
1 h – 2 h
Booking
Not required
Area
The Triangle
The cobbled road with its railing leading to the hermitage, between a rock wall and the wooded valley; at the end, under a large tree, the little church with its portico.Olgierd Rudak · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The cobbled road with its railing leading to the hermitage, between a rock wall and the wooded valley; at the end, under a large tree, the little church with its portico.

Olgierd Rudak · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

The hermitage of San Miro al Monte is a seventeenth-century church in the Val Ravella above Canzo.

Built between 1643 and 1660, it stands where tradition places the hermit Miro's retreat before he moved to Sorico. His cult is linked to water and the nearby spring. A small convent beside the church was inhabited until the end of the eighteenth century. Across the stream, dry-stone walls survive from the friars' vegetable gardens. Restoration of the church ended in 2005. A cobbled track climbs here from Gajum.

  • A hermits' church at the bottom of a rocky gorge, a walk from Canzo.
  • The spring and the story of Saint Miro, the saint of water, buried at Sorico at the other end of the lake.

Highlights

  • The church of 1643-1660 with its portico
  • The restored spring
  • The friars' terraces across the stream
  • The small chapel on the erratic boulder on the way up

Getting there

  • It is reached on foot from Canzo: beyond the Fonti di Gajum a cobbled road leads to the hermitage, in the Val Ravella.

Accessibility

  • The road up to the hermitage, beyond Gajum, is cobbled and easy going.

On the map

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Sources and credits

Verified at source1 Oct 2026Comune di Canzoopens in a new tab

Sources and credits

Verified at source1 Oct 2026Comune di Canzoopens in a new tab