What to do near Arcore, MB

Villa Cusani Tittoni Traversi

Every door is a surprise, every room is a new world here, where everything happens

Church of Saints Peter and Paul and Baptistery, in Agliate

Extraordinary complex, among the earliest evidence of Romanesque in Italy

Borromeo Park

The green jewel of Cesano Maderno

In Solza on the trail of Colleoni

In the castle of Solza, Bartolomeo Colleoni, captain of fortune, was born in 1395. A curious place, to which the stratifications of history have given an appearance somewhere between castle and farmstead.

Inverigo, a corner of Tuscany in Lombardy

Inverigo is a town that has beautiful historic buildings, but above all it preserves a wonderful corner of the countryside in the Pomelasca Estate, reminiscent of the sweetness of the Tuscan Apennines. In the middle of Lombardy.

Taccani hydroelectric power plant

A power plant that is still in use but can be visited. Its eclectic architecture, between modernism and neo-Romanesque, is reflected in the Adda with the beauty of a royal palace reflected in the river

Visconti Castle of Trezzo sull'Adda

Fascinating ruins of the castle built in 1300 by Barnabò as a military fortress but also used as a summer residence for lords. The tower, dungeons and dungeons remain.

Brivio, a castle on the river

Fine castle of very ancient origin, remodeled but legible, in a strategic position on the Adda, protecting the crossing. Converted into a spinning mill in the 1800s, today it is used for housing.

Oratory of Saints Nazario and Celso in Garbagnate Monastero

Small but striking Romanesque church built on a Lombard oratory, in sandstone ashlars, with a gabled facade and semicircular apse. Stark and collected interior.

Church of San Colombano in Vaprio d'Adda

A forest of stone symbols that seems to leap out of a medieval bestiary

Abbey of Sant'Egidio, Fontanella

The fascinating Romanesque abbey on Mount Canto that was Father Turoldo's final resting place

Consonno, the ghost town

It was supposed to be the Las Vegas of Brianza; today it is a destination for the curious and nostalgic.