Until13Dec
Tremezzina Gastronomica
The Tremezzina's autumn food festival: from October to December, restaurants and hotels in the area serve menus of the lake, the land and Lario tradition.
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Tremezzina
Santo Stefano and the Lenno Baptistery
Lenno's parish church, on the square a few steps from the lake, with a Romanesque crypt beneath it and, alongside, an eleventh-century octagonal baptistery.
- Visit duration
- 20–40 min
- Booking
- Not required
- Area
- Centro Lago
- Maurizio Moro5153 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Ben Bender · CC BY-SA 3.0
Why go
The collegiate church of Santo Stefano, Lenno's parish church, was rebuilt in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the facade was made and the side porticoes became aisles.
Halfway along the nave, though, two hatches lead down to a crypt of the late eleventh century: five bays of cross vaults on slender columns and three small apses, on a plan taken from the church of Sant'Eufemia on Isola Comacina. In the first chapel on the right are two frescoes of Luini's school, the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi. Beside the church stands the octagonal baptistery of San Giovanni, from the last quarter of the eleventh century, similar to the one at Oggiono.
- Two Romanesque buildings on the same square, six minutes on foot from the boat.
- Beneath the church, a crypt reached through two hatches in the floor.
Highlights
- The eleventh-century crypt beneath the nave
- The octagonal baptistery of San Giovanni
- The frescoes of Luini's school
Getting there
- From the Lenno pier, six minutes on foot along the lake.
- By bus along the Statale Regina, stop Lenno Chiesa.
Wiki_rkit · CC BY-SA 4.0Accessibility
- The eleventh-century crypt beneath the church is reached by two symmetrical stairways on either side of the nave.
Practical information
- Address
Via Santo Stefano, 22016 Tremezzina
- Telephone
This is the number of the parish of Santo Stefano, at Via Santo Stefano 13.
Facilities
- Car park 145 m away · free
- Public toilets 44 m away
Distances from the point on the map.
Updated 8 October 2026
On the map
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Sources and credits
Verified at source1 Oct 2026Diocesi di Como — annuario delle parrocchieopens in a new tab
- Maps, parking, services and distances: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
- Freely licensed photographs: authors and licences under Photograph credits.
Sources and credits
Verified at source1 Oct 2026Diocesi di Como — annuario delle parrocchieopens in a new tab
- Maps, parking, services and distances: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
- Freely licensed photographs: authors and licences under Photograph credits.