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Laglio

Church of San Giorgio, Laglio

Visit duration
15–30 min
Booking
Not required
Area
First Basin
The single-nave interior looking to the high altar: walls and vault adorned with stucco and paintings, the large altarpiece in a black and gold frame beneath three stained-glass windows, wooden pews in the foreground.Kaitu · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kaitu · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kaitu · CC BY-SA 4.0

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The single-nave interior looking to the high altar: walls and vault adorned with stucco and paintings, the large altarpiece in a black and gold frame beneath three stained-glass windows, wooden pews in the foreground.

Kaitu · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

The parish church of San Giorgio, in the centre of Laglio, was built in the seventeenth century on the foundations of an older one.

A church of San Giorgio is recorded as early as the twelfth century; in the sixteenth century it faced the opposite way from today's. The present church was probably begun in 1619 and consecrated in 1630. It is decorated with eighteenth-century stucco and friezes by Stefano Salterio, born in Laglio, and holds paintings and sculpture of the same century. On the yellow front, above the stone doorway, a statue in a niche shows Saint George slaying the dragon. On the right side of the church is the oratory of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, richly decorated in the eighteenth century, with Carlo Innocenzo Carloni's altarpiece of the Madonna of the Rosary on a stucco altar by Stefano Salterio.

  • The wooden crucifix on the pulpit is the work of Antonio Salterio, Stefano's father.
  • Among the eighteenth-century paintings is a Martyrdom of Saint George by the painter Arlotti.
  • The paintings of the high altar are by Alessandro Ferretti, an artist from the Val d'Intelvi.

Highlights

  • Stefano Salterio's stucco and friezes
  • Saint George and the dragon above the door
  • The oratory of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament
  • Carlo Innocenzo Carloni's Madonna of the Rosary

Getting there

  • It is on Piazza Salterio, in the centre of Laglio; the C110 bus stops in the village, while the line boats do not call at Laglio.

On the map

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LaglioCarate UrioPognana LarioChurch of San Giorgio, Laglio

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Sources and credits

Verified at source30 Sept – 8 Oct 2026Comune di Laglio — Laglio Riva Romanticaopens in a new tab

Sources and credits

Verified at source30 Sept – 8 Oct 2026Comune di Laglio — Laglio Riva Romanticaopens in a new tab