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Carate Urio

Santi Quirico e Giulitta, Carate Urio

Visit duration
15–30 min
Booking
Not required
Area
First Basin
The church seen from the lake: the yellow front with its doorway and lunette window, the churchyard lawn on the shore and, behind, the tall stone bell tower with its twin windows, among cypresses and the village houses on the slope.Civvì · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The church seen from the lake: the yellow front with its doorway and lunette window, the churchyard lawn on the shore and, behind, the tall stone bell tower with its twin windows, among cypresses and the village houses on the slope.

Civvì · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

The church of Santi Quirico e Giulitta is Urio's lakeside parish church.

It was rebuilt in 1865 after repeated floods from the Pangino stream.

The twelfth-century Romanesque bell tower survives from the earlier building, with two tiers of windows divided by a small column. The interior has a single nave with side chapels. It holds two Renaissance panels, depicting Saints Roch and Dominic and the Assumption, alongside sixteenth- and seventeenth-century canvases. An Immaculate Conception follows Morazzone's iconography. The forecourt overlooks the lake.

  • The Romanesque bell tower is built of Moltrasio stone and topped by a four-sided roof.
  • The gabled front, facing the lake, is divided by four pilasters.
  • The chancel is raised by a few steps and ends in a semicircular apse.

Highlights

  • The Romanesque bell tower with two tiers of twin windows
  • The panel of Saints Roch and Dominic
  • The Assumption on panel
  • The churchyard over the lake

Getting there

  • It stands on the Via Regina at Urio. ASF Autolinee's C110 Como–Menaggio–Colico bus stops at Urio Ponte, and Navigazione Laghi's Como–Colico boats call at the Urio pier.
The front and the stone bell tower against a pink and orange sunset sky, with the houses of Urio on the mountain behind.Tomcorengia · CC BY-SA 4.0

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TornoCarate UrioSanti Quirico e Giulitta, Carate Urio

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