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Pianello del Lario

Madonna della Neve, Pianello del Lario

Visit duration
15–30 min
Booking
Not required
Area
Centro Lago
Illustration: a terrace above the lake, until a photograph of the Madonna della Neve at Pianello del Lario is available.Illustration

Why go

The Madonna della Neve is an oratory at Coslia above Pianello, with views of the upper lake from its forecourt.

It was rebuilt over an earlier building in the first half of the eighteenth century at the wish of the Tre Terre communities: Coslia, Scarpagiano and Rovezzano. Emigrants in the Genoa area and the Veneto belonging to the Compagnia dei Genovesi contributed in particular. A small porch precedes the entrance; the bell tower was added in the late nineteenth century. Above the altar is the nursing Virgin with Saints Roch and Sebastian; the vault depicts the Assumption and Resurrection.

  • The oratory of the Tre Terre, rebuilt with the gifts of emigrants in Genoa and the Veneto.
  • The forecourt from which much of the upper lake is in view.

Highlights

  • The porch in front of the oratory
  • The nursing Madonna between Saint Roch and Saint Sebastian
  • The Assumption and the Resurrection on the vault

Getting there

  • It is at Coslia, one of the Tre Terre above the centre of Pianello, on Vicolo dei Bacui.

On the map

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