Colico

COLICO

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The town of Colico is the last on the eastern shore of the Lecco branch of the Lario, it is immersed in a grandiose mountain setting dominated to the east by Legnone, to the north by the peaks of Chivennate among which Sasso Manduino stands out and to the west by the peaks of 'high lake.

It is an important tourist location, both for stays and for transit: it is, in fact, located at the convergence point of the roads coming from Lecco, Chiavenna and Sondrio, that is, from the plains and the Alpine passes and, even further away, from Switzerland and 'Austria.

A key point of trade between the north and the south, inhabited already in Roman and pre-Roman times, fortified in the municipal era, devastated by the passage of foreign troops heading towards Milan, by plagues and by the repeated floods of the Adda.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it was enfeoffed to various lords: the Visconti, the Sanseverino, the Sforza, the Caldarini, the Pusterla, the Quadrio and the Alberti. At the end of the seventeenth century the surrounding area was an uninhabited and smelly swamp.

It regained importance with the opening of the Stelvio, Maloia and Spluga roads and with the filling of the last stretch of the Adda carried out in 1858, which allowed the reclamation of the Piano di Spagna, today the largest and most important natural reserve in the Lombardy.

Among the many trips that can be made starting from the town, one, short and pleasant, leads to the picturesque chapel of San Rocco near which are the 'Torri di Fontanedo', around which the oldest nucleus of Colico developed.


 

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Residence Turistico Alberghiero

"Oasi del Viandante"

Via Valvarrone, 17/b

23824 Dervio (LC) - Italy

Telephone +39 0341 850111

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