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Villa Manzoni

Visit duration
45 min – 1 h 30
Booking
Not required
Area
Lecco Branch
A frescoed room of the villa.Pier B. · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Pier B. · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • luca_s · CC BY-SA 4.0

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A frescoed room of the villa.

Pier B. · CC BY-SA 3.0

Why go

Villa Manzoni is the family house at Caleotto in Lecco where Alessandro Manzoni spent his childhood.

The complex combines the main residence, farm buildings and a park. Pietro Manzoni commissioned its remodelling between 1773 and 1779; the façade retains sandstone mouldings. In 1818 the writer sold the property to Giuseppe Scola, a silk manufacturer. It later passed to the municipality of Lecco and houses the Museo Manzoniano. On the ground floor, furniture, paintings, prints, documents, photographs and period books explore the writer's family and works.

  • It shows how much of the novel's geography matches real places.
  • The museum is indoors.

Highlights

  • The manuscript room
  • The family chapel
  • The art gallery

Getting there

  • Fifteen minutes' walk from Lecco station, or a city bus.

Accessibility

  • The Museo Manzoniano is on the villa's ground floor.

Practical information

Address

Via Giovanni Amendola, 23900 Lecco

Telephone

+39 0341 481247

Facilities

  • Car park 39 m away · free
  • Public toilets 219 m away · accessible

Distances from the point on the map.

Webcams

Updated 22 October 2026

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Sources and credits

Verified at source1 Oct – 8 Oct 2026SiMUL — Sistema Museale Urbano Leccheseopens in a new tab

Sources and credits

Verified at source1 Oct – 8 Oct 2026SiMUL — Sistema Museale Urbano Leccheseopens in a new tab