Churches

The current construction dates back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but certainly the original structure was older than at least a hundred years. In fact, the acts of the pastoral visit of 1593 recall this church and its frescoes (no longer existing today). External descriptionThe small religious building has a gabled façade in which […]

The church, originally belonging to the order of the Dominican friars, is formed by a single nave nave, on which there are two side chapels (the one on the right has a rich stucco decoration), and from the presbytery.The arch of the presbytery has two paintings representing San Vincenzo and San Martino. The back wall

The church, which is located inside a private property can not be visited, but its shapes can be seen along the provincial road towards Como.A single nave, with an irregular pattern, ends with a low apse carved by three splayed single-lancet windows. The façade has no decorations and is only moved by the monolithic architrave

Private property (Villa Trivulzio) Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli d’Albertone (Milan, July 27, 1822 – Milan, April 6, 1879) was an Italian art collector, founder of the museum that bears his name, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan. He was buried in Bellagio in the park of Villa Trivulzio in a neo-Gothic mausoleum built for him

The church of San Giorgio is located in Bellagio, next to the city hall. It is contemporary to the Basilica of San Giacomo, the main church of the city: like this one, it dates back to the XI-XII century (it is dated between 1080 and 1120). Originally the apse and the altar were facing east;

Medieval origins.Probably the primitive building, preceding the current construction, dated back to the 10th century; no trace exists of it. The new church was built in several phases between the end of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; a restoration and a further enlargement are documented towards the end of the 18th century, when it reached

One of the characteristics of the church is a felt devotion to the Madonna in fact is dedicated to the SS Annunciata and for this the square in front of the church is called “Piazza della Madonna” as well as “water of the Madonna” the water that gushed from the fountain hidden to the right