What to do near Arzago d'Adda, BG

Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta and San Sigismondo

Dating back to the 11th century, it underwent massive restoration in the early 1900s. However, the ancient and curious friezes depicting a wide variety of creatures are preserved: birds, dragons, and even mermaids.

Church of San Bernardino, a rediscovered masterpiece

Gothic and austere the exterior, splendid and Renaissance the interior

Caravaggio, the Gothic church of Saints Fermo and Rustico

Imposing Lombard Gothic church with a tall 16th-century bell tower and a soaring facade culminating in five pinnacles, decorated with hanging arches and a fine banded portal.

Corneliano Bertario and the Borromeo Castle

An ancient Lombard village with courtyards, irrigation ditches and a castle

Parish church of San Martino in Palazzo Pignano

In the beautiful Romanesque parish church surrounded by cultivated fields, history is told by terracotta bricks and archaeological remains

Pagazzano Castle

A majestic Visconti Castle

Church of San Colombano in Vaprio d'Adda

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

Villa Barni, in Roncadello di Dovera

Beautiful and elegant villa of delight, built between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, surrounded by a romantic English-style park in which to get lost in search of hidden corners.

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.

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

Fortress of Romano di Lombardia

Fortress of a defensive character, used as housing for troops. Bartolomeo Colleoni also resided there for some time. It dates back to the 12th century.