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Lecco

Visconti Tower, Lecco

Visit duration
15–45 min
Booking
Not required
Area
Lecco Branch
The upper part of the Visconti Tower squeezed between two buildings: bare stone masonry, a row of small arches on corbels and, at the top, the openings of the loggia under the overhanging roof, against a blue sky.Sergei Gussev · CC BY 2.0

Why go

The Torre Viscontea is the fourteenth-century tower of Lecco's former castle, on Piazza XX Settembre.

It is the part of the Visconti fortifications that survived intact after demolitions began in the late eighteenth century. The castle housed the Spanish garrison in the seventeenth century; the fortress was abolished in 1782 and sold to private owners. Ground-floor remains include the guard quarters and stone cannonballs. The first floor hosts temporary exhibitions organised by the museum system and the municipality's Culture Department.

  • The top section of the tower was built in the fifteenth century, above the fourteenth-century structure.
  • After 1816, following work by the Lecco architect Giuseppe Bovara, the tower was used as a prison.

Highlights

  • The guardroom on the ground floor
  • The stone cannonballs
  • The temporary exhibitions upstairs

Getting there

  • It stands at Piazza XX Settembre 3, in the centre of Lecco, a few minutes on foot from the lakefront and the station.

Accessibility

  • The tower is not accessible to people with reduced mobility: the first floor, where the exhibitions are, is reached only by a staircase with a handrail.

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Sources and credits

Verified at source1 Oct 2026SiMUL — Sistema Museale Urbano Leccheseopens in a new tab

Sources and credits

Verified at source1 Oct 2026SiMUL — Sistema Museale Urbano Leccheseopens in a new tab