Museums & culture
Sanctuary of the Madonna delle Lacrime
Dongo's sanctuary, with the Last Supper and Crucifixion groups carved in wood in the seventeenth century by Fra Diego Giurati.
500 m
Dongo
Santa Maria in Martinico, Dongo
- Today
- Visit duration
- 15–30 min
- Booking
- Not required
- Area
- Upper Lake
- Bärbel Miemietz · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Torsade de Pointes · CC0
Why go
Martinico is the oldest part of Dongo, and here stands the Romanesque church of Santa Maria, built between the late eleventh and the twelfth century.
The facade is plain, pierced by a small cross-shaped window; on the flank is a small fourteenth-century side front. Halfway along the right wall of the nave is the fresco of the Madonna of Mercy, with six angels holding up her cloak, probably painted between 1310 and 1315. Other fifteenth-century frescoes and fragments can be seen under the roof along the same wall. The church also keeps a gilded silver cross of 1513 from the workshop of the goldsmith Francesco Ser Gregori.
- A Romanesque church of the upper lake, in the hamlet of Martinico.
- The early fourteenth-century Madonna of Mercy.
Highlights
- The Madonna of Mercy with six angels
- Ser Gregori's gilded silver cross of 1513
- The arcaded apse and the bell tower
Getting there
- In the hamlet of Martinico, Dongo; boats call at Dongo, and the Regina road buses pass through.
On the map
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Nearby: places, experiences, services
Distances as the crow flies.
Sources and credits
Verified at source8 Oct 2026North Lake Comoopens in a new tab
- Maps, parking, services and distances: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
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Sources and credits
Verified at source8 Oct 2026North Lake Comoopens in a new tab
- Maps, parking, services and distances: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
- Freely licensed photographs: authors and licences under Photograph credits.