Gravedona

lago como Opposite the beautiful Piona peninsula thereafter we land at Gravedona, already an important center in the Romantic period, it later became chief town of the Community of the Tre Pievi- Three Parishes- (Sorico, Dongo and Gravedona). Diverse reasons for architectonic interest, beginning whit the church of Santa Maria del Tiglio (13th cent.), with two-colored borders on the exterior and an octagonal bell tower at the center of the facade. Then there is Palazzo Gallio, planed by Pellegrino Tibaldi for the Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio, begun in 1583 and later completed in 1620. After a departing a few minutes from Gravedona we land at Domaso, crowed against the slopes of the Sasso Pelo, at the mouth of the Livio stream. During the Charlemagne Era, it was part of the famous Reichenau monastery on the Costanza Lake. Here too are some villas of the 19th and 20th cent., like Villa Camilla, site of the Town Hall.

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