The Lecco Branch

Antonio Stoppani Monument, Lecco

The bronze monument to Antonio Stoppani, the geologist and priest of “Il Bel Paese”, by Michele Vedani, unveiled in 1927: it stands in a red-brick exedra on the lakefront, with the campanile of San Nicolò and the Resegone behind it.

5–15 min

Church and Museum of Blessed Serafino, Lecco

The Romanesque church of Chiuso, in Lecco, with fifteenth-century frescoes and the urn of Blessed Serafino Morazzone, the parish priest who inspired one of Manzoni's characters; in the nearby rectory, the museum devoted to him.

20 min – 1 h

Sasso di Preguda and Sant'Isidoro, Valmadrera

A granite erratic about seven metres high, carried by the glaciers from the Val Masino to a site 647 metres above sea level on the slopes above Valmadrera: a regional natural monument since 1984, with the little church of Sant'Isidoro using the rock as its back wall.

1 h 30 – 2 h 30

Villa Bertarelli, Galbiate

Galbiate's historic villa, with Portaluppi's decoration of 1911–1913 and terraced gardens above the Brianza lakes, headquarters of Parco Monte Barro.

45 min – 1 h 30

Barro Archaeological Museum and Piani di Barra, Galbiate

The archaeological museum of Monte Barro, with more than four hundred finds from the Goths who lived there in the fifth and sixth centuries and the bronze hanging crown; a few minutes' walk away, the remains of the settlement at the Piani di Barra.

1 h – 2 h

Medardo Rosso Museum, Barzio

Medardo Rosso's sculptures, gathered by his son Francesco after his father's death in 1928 in an old seventeenth-century church at Barzio, in the Valsassina: a private museum visited by appointment.

30 min – 1 h

Antonia Pozzi's House and Poetry Trail, Pasturo

The house at Pasturo where the Milanese poet Antonia Pozzi spent her summers and wrote, at the foot of the Grigna: her study and a room of mementoes to visit by booking, and through the village streets twenty-two panels with her poems and her photographs.

1 h – 2 h

Riccardo Villa Botanical Garden, Valmadrera

The herb garden in the centre of Valmadrera, laid out where the Fatebenefratelli grew medicinal herbs for their hospice: more than nine hundred species in the four large original beds.

30 min – 1 h

Lecco Branch

Swimming in the lake

The monitored bathing spots, the class of their water and where you can get into the water from the shore.

3 h – 8 hOpen access

Lecco Branch

One stage of the Sentiero del Viandante

Start at one station, walk above the lake, come back from another.

3 h – 5 hOpen access

Lecco Branch

Gorges and ravines

Two gorges a short walk from the lake: the walkways at Bellano and the three hundred steps at Nesso.

45 min – 2 h

Lecco Branch

Grigna and the Piani Resinelli

The Grignetta and the Piani Resinelli above Lecco: walks, via ferrata and climbing.

5 h – 9 h5.5 km · +1014 mCar needed