Until7Nov
Lecco Città dei Promessi Sposi
The autumn festival Lecco devotes to Manzoni, around Villa Manzoni: readings, tours, talks and the Camminata Manzoniana walk.
Villa Manzoni and other places in Lecco
Lecco
Ponte Azzone Visconti
Lecco's old bridge, of medieval origin, where “the lake ends and the Adda begins again” (Manzoni, The Betrothed).
- Visit duration
- 20–45 min
- Booking
- Not required
- Area
- Lecco Branch
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- Igbowoman · CC BY-SA 4.0
Why go
The Azzone Visconti bridge was built between 1336 and 1338 to connect Lecco with Milan, commissioned by the lord of Milan whose name it bears.
It had towers and drawbridges and, halfway across, a chapel with a statue of the Madonna. The Count of Fuentes, governor of Milan, restored it in 1609. In the nineteenth century the side towers were pulled down to let the carts through, and in the twentieth its roadway was widened for motor traffic. Today it has eleven arches and is 131 metres long. It is the bridge of The Betrothed, where the lake becomes a river again.
- You can walk across it, between Lecco's mountains and the Adda setting off again under the arches.
- From Lecco's lakefront it is a quarter of an hour's walk; beside it, on the Lecco bank, lies Pescarenico, the fishermen's village of The Betrothed.
Highlights
- The eleven arches over the Adda
- The view of the Resegone and the Grigne
- The footway across the bridge
- Pescarenico, beside the bridge
Getting there
- On foot from Lecco's lakefront, a quarter of an hour southwards.
Krzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0On the map
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What's on nearby
Events within a few kilometres, on now or coming up.
Nearby: places, experiences, services
Distances as the crow flies.
Sources and credits
- Maps, parking, services and distances: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
- Freely licensed photographs: authors and licences under Photograph credits.
Sources and credits
- Maps, parking, services and distances: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
- Freely licensed photographs: authors and licences under Photograph credits.