The Lariano Triangle

Madonna del Moletto Sanctuary, Oliveto Lario

The two-storey seventeenth-century sanctuary on a rock above the lake, at the border with Bellagio: the monk Roberto Rusca founded it in 1606, and two painters from Como frescoed its upper room with the life of the Virgin.

15–40 min

San Miro al Monte Hermitage, Canzo

A small seventeenth-century church with its little hermits' convent in the gorge of the Val Ravella above Canzo, where by tradition Saint Miro lived: reached on foot from the Fonti di Gajum.

1 h – 2 h

Santa Maria di Vico, Nesso

The Romanesque church of the Vico hamlet, above Nesso, already named in 1184: inside, saints painted around 1300 and Bartolomeo de Benzi's polyptych of the Assumption, from 1500.

15–30 min

Santi Pietro e Paolo, Nesso

The mother church of the old pieve of Nesso, a few metres from the lake, which the village calls the duomo: rebuilt in Baroque style from 1632, with its bell tower of 1538, frescoed chapels and the supposed remains of Bishop Rainaldo.

15–30 min

Sant'Ambrogio, Sormano

Sormano's parish church, rebuilt from 1677, with an elliptical nave, two porticoes on the façade and decoration by Carlo Inganni and Nino Nespoli.

15–30 min

Santi Quirico e Giulitta, Lezzeno

Lezzeno's parish church, between Nesso and Bellagio, with its portal dated 1520 under the porch, Giulio Quaglio's paintings in the presbytery and a Roman inscription at the foot of the bell tower.

15–30 min

Orrido di Nesso

A waterfall entering the lake under a stone bridge, at the bottom of three hundred steps.

45 min – 1 h 30

Muro di Sormano

The Sormano Wall, the cycling climb from Sormano to the Colma, closed to cars: the Giro di Lombardia dropped it after 1962, amid the riders' protests, and later took it back.

30 min – 1 h 30

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The climb to the Ghisallo

Ten kilometres from Bellagio up to the cyclists' chapel.

2 h – 5 h12.7 km · +664 m

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Monte San Primo from Civenna

The seventeen-and-a-half-kilometre loop from Civenna to the highest summit of the Triangolo Lariano, 1,682 metres, with the view over both branches of the lake: the seventh Bellagio Trekking route, March to November.

5 h – 6 hCar neededOpen access

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The Corni di Canzo from Valmadrera

The three limestone summits of the Triangolo Lariano: from Valmadrera by the Sambrosera spring to the Rifugio SEV at Pianezzo and on to the horns, or from Canzo by the Fonti di Gajum and ERSAF's regional forest.

5 h – 7 hOpen access

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Monte Palanzone along the Dorsale

The second summit of the Triangolo Lariano, 1436 metres above Faggeto Lario, with its pyramid chapel on top: from Brunate along the Dorsale to the Bocchetta di Palanzo and the Rifugio Riella, and down to Palanzo.

5 h 30 – 7 hOpen access