Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Lecco, Italy
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3.3 km
54 m
Explore Lecco in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Individual Sights in LeccoSight 1: Civico museo manzoniano
The Manzoni Museum is a museum in Lecco, Lombardy, dedicated to the figure of Alessandro Manzoni. The museum belongs to the Lecco Urban Museum System and is located at Villa Manzoni al Caleotto, the writer's family home.
Sight 2: Monumento ad Alessandro Manzoni
The monument to Alessandro Manzoni is a bronze sculpture placed in the square of the same name in Lecco in Lombardy in memory of the great Milanese writer who set the novel, a masterpiece of Italian literature, The Betrothed.
Sight 3: Santuario di Nostra Signora della Vittoria
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Victory is a Catholic place of worship in Lecco, located in Via Azzone Visconti, near the city center. It was erected in memory of the fallen during the Great War, in fact the bell of the tower strikes every day at seven in the evening to commemorate the victims of the war.
Wikipedia: Santuario di Nostra Signora della Vittoria (Lecco) (IT), Website
Sight 4: Monumento a Garibaldi
The monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi is a granite sculpture located in the square of the same name in Lecco in Lombardy, where Giuseppe Garibaldi was a guest four times.
Sight 5: Teatro della Società
The Teatro della Società is the oldest and most important of the theatres of Lecco in Lombardy. It stands isolated in one of the main squares of the historic center of the city of which it occupies one of the short sides. The building is located behind the monument dedicated to the Hero of Two Worlds.
Sight 6: Monumenti ai caduti della I Guerra Mondiale
The War Memorial, also known as the War Memorial, is an imposing granite stele made by the sculptor Giannino Castiglioni, located in Lecco in Lombardy, on the shore of the gulf of the lake of the same name near the mouth of the Caldone stream.
Sight 7: Monumento a Mario Cermenati
The monument to Mario Cermenati is a marble sculpture placed in the square of the same name in Lecco in memory of the naturalist and geologist founder of the Civic Museums of Lecco.
Sight 8: Basilica di San Nicolò
The Basilica of San Nicolò is the main place of Catholic worship in Lecco. It is situated in an elevated position and stands on the remains of the 14th century AD city walls. It was dedicated to San Nicolò, patron saint of sailors and boatmen. The symbol of the church is the very high bell tower, which, with its 96 meters of height, represents one of the highest bell towers in Italy.
Sight 9: Torre di San Nicolò
The bell tower of San Nicolò, located on the northern side of the basilica of the same name from which it takes its name, is one of the symbols of the city of Lecco in Lombardy as well as being among the main monuments of the capital. Located inside the parish oratory, in an isolated position on an old fifteenth-century defensive tower of circular shape that was part of the old wall fortification of the city in medieval times, it was inaugurated on Christmas Eve 1904 and is affectionately called Matitone by the people of Lecco for its particular octagonal shape and pyramid-shaped spire.
Sight 10: Chiesa dei Santi Vitale e Valeria
The church of Saints Vitale and Valeria is the parish Catholic place of worship in Olate, in the district of Lecco. It is located in the square of the same name in the district
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