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Brienno

Church of San Vittore, Brienno

Visit duration
15–30 min
Booking
Not required
Area
First Basin
San Vittore's stone bell tower with its conical spire, between the tiled roof and a tree, before the lake; behind, the mountains and a village on the far shore under the clouds.Tomcorengia · CC BY-SA 4.0
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San Vittore's stone bell tower with its conical spire, between the tiled roof and a tree, before the lake; behind, the mountains and a village on the far shore under the clouds.

Tomcorengia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

San Vittore, also called Sant'Anna, is a lakeside church south of Brienno's centre.

The building was rebuilt in the sixteenth century and altered in the seventeenth; its Romanesque bell tower dates from the eleventh century. The tower retains blocked twin windows and a conical spire. Inside is a single nave with side chapels and a stone-slab floor. A large sixteenth-century fresco of the Massacre of the Innocents occupies the left wall; other paintings include Saint Victor as a soldier saint. The chapel of Saint Anne occupies the former apse, before the altar's orientation was changed.

  • Since 1913 the Romanesque bell tower has been protected by the State as a monument.

Highlights

  • The Romanesque bell tower with its conical spire
  • The Massacre of the Innocents on the left wall
  • Saint Victor depicted as a soldier saint
  • The chapel of Saint Anne in the former apse

Getting there

  • It stands on the Via Regina, south of the centre of Brienno, on the lakeshore. ASF Autolinee's C110 Como–Menaggio–Colico bus stops in Brienno.
From the lake, the bell tower and the church on the shore among the trees, beside a villa with a portico, below the slope with its houses.Ottantafame · CC BY-SA 4.0

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