Orrido di Bellano

You walk it on walkways anchored to the walls that drop sheer to the water, past great potholes, clefts and caves, as far as the large waterfall upstream. The force of the torrent was harnessed as early as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for working iron, then by silk mills, by a nineteenth-century cotton mill and finally by a hydroelectric plant. At the entrance stands the Ca' del Diavol, a three-storey turret on a pentagonal plan, of unknown origin and already known in the early seventeenth century. It takes its name from the frescoes on the top floor, showing the devil and other mythological figures, and now houses a multimedia exhibition on the history of the place.