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Lezzeno

San Giuseppe, Pescaù

On the Lezzeno shore, at Pescaù, the octagonal little church the Bellini family had built in 1677-1678, with a many-sided apse, an umbrella vault and an eight-sided roof of stone slabs.

Visit duration
10–20 min
Booking
Not required
Area
The Triangle
The plastered octagonal little church, with its wooden door and the white bell tower on the roof, behind a low wall with ivy; on the left the lake and the houses on the shore, on the right a tall cypress and a pink building, under the clouds.Daniele Marucci · CC BY 4.0
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The plastered octagonal little church, with its wooden door and the white bell tower on the roof, behind a low wall with ivy; on the left the lake and the houses on the shore, on the right a tall cypress and a pink building, under the clouds.

Daniele Marucci · CC BY 4.0

Why go

The church of San Giuseppe was built at the expense of the Bellini family, probably between 1677 and 1678: the date 1678 is carved on the lintel of the doorway.

It stands on the lake, on the road to Rozzo, and is the work of Lombard craftsmen. It has a central octagonal plan, with a rectangular barrel-vaulted presbytery and a polygonal apse. The octagonal hall has an umbrella vault, as does the apse, and outside a hipped roof of eight sides covered in stone slabs. The walls are of stone, plastered inside and out, and the floor of the hall is laid with square stone slabs set diagonally. The wooden altar of the presbytery was restored in 1990.

  • A seventeenth-century octagonal little church on the lakeshore.
  • The date 1678 carved on the doorway.

Highlights

  • The octagonal plan with its polygonal apse
  • The umbrella vault of the hall
  • The date 1678 on the lintel of the doorway
  • The eight-sided roof of stone slabs

Getting there

  • It stands on the shore at Pescaù, a hamlet of Lezzeno, on the road to Rozzo. ASF Autolinee's C130 Como–Bellagio bus stops at Lezzeno.

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Sala ComacinaLezzenoSan Giuseppe, Pescaù

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