Attractions
Muro di Sormano
The Sormano Wall, the cycling climb from Sormano to the Colma, closed to cars: the Giro di Lombardia dropped it after 1962, amid the riders' protests, and later took it back.
750 m
Sormano
Sant'Ambrogio, Sormano
Sormano's parish church, rebuilt from 1677, with an elliptical nave, two porticoes on the façade and decoration by Carlo Inganni and Nino Nespoli.
- Visit duration
- 15–30 min
- Booking
- Not required
- Area
- The Triangle
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Why go
Sant'Ambrogio is Sormano's parish church, with an elliptical nave and three chapels on each side.
Rebuilding began in 1677: the structure and roofs were completed in 1715, the decoration in 1762. The façade has two porticoes beside the entrance and a clock above the window. Carlo Inganni worked on the decoration from 1883; Nino Nespoli painted further frescoes in 1935–1936. The chancel retains its balustrades, coloured marble altar and wooden choir stalls in the semicircular apse.
- An oval Baroque church in the village of the Muro di Sormano.
- The interior decorated by Carlo Inganni from 1883, with the presbytery and the chapels.
Highlights
- The nave on an oval plan
- The porch with its two small porticoes
- The presbytery and its balustrades
Getting there
- It stands in the village of Sormano, in the Triangolo Lariano, on the road climbing towards the Pian del Tivano.
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- Maps, parking, services and distances: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
- Freely licensed photographs: authors and licences under Photograph credits.