Lecco
The main itinerary concluded we pass on to that route which runs along the other branch of the Lake, with a departure from Lecco and arrival at Bellagio. Lecco owes a good portion of its beauty to the great variety of landscapes, and to its unique position and morphological conformation. As a matter of fact it rises at the extreme south-east of the Adda, up to the Gerlate Lake, where the river begins. It is circumscribed to the north by Mount San Martino and to the east by Mount Resegone. The historic center, characterized by a sober but elegant 18th cent. building of neo-Classical flavour still preserves traces of the Viscounts rule. The Torre Viscontea, of the first half of the 14th cent., today site of the Renaissance Museum, is all that remains of the Castle demolished together with the walls at the end of the 1700s. Among the various palazzi, significant from an architectonic point of view are, Palazzo Belgioioso, of the '700s, seat of the municipal museums (naturalistic and archaelogic sections), and Villa Manzoni, it belonged to the writer's family up until 1818, and now property of the Commune. Here Manzoni spent long periods of his infancy and youth.