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Accommodation in Musso - Lake Como Italy

The area of Musso is overhung by the great caves of marble opened in the Stone of Musso that, since the most ancient times, have furnished buildings marbles and monuments on the Lake Como (Cathedral of Como) and of the Lombardy. Musso is characterized from ancient houses that coast along the Road Regina and from low porticos on its small square of the dock. It was centre of the castle of the Medeghino during the XVI century. WHAT TO VISIT: Church St. Biagio It is a small parish to three aisles, erected in the slow 300 on the rests of a pre-existing Romanesque church, of which the extreme part apsidal remains. The times were added to then of the side aisles, the central portal, the frescos of the façade, the porch on the side, the bell tower and a minuscule square with Romanesque baptismal tub in marble, turned now into fountain. Church Sant'Eufemia Erected on the embankment of the Stone, it detaches for its white colour. A legend narrates that a woman of Sueglio was exiled, because unpopular from her fellow townspersons. To show her faith, she succeeded in crossing the lake cutting the waters with a carpenter saw. Reached the cliff of Musso, she devoted to the hermitage, effecting well works of and purchasing the trust of the inhabitants of Musso, who decided to erect a church to her death. Il Giardino del Merlo The Garden of the Blackbird Unusual example of exotic garden, from many years in abandonment, it showed off agaves, palms, fig trees from Indian, camellias, redwoods. Today the exploration is almost impossible and certainly dangerous, everything can be observed from the high of holy Eufemia. The Castle of Musso Ownership of the family Malacrida during the XIV century, it was surrendered in 1508 to Gian Giacomo Trivulzio that it strengthened the fortress and it had the right to coin on the spot also erecting a new castle. From 1522 to 1532 the castle was busy from Gian Giacomo De' Medici, popularly says the Medeghino, legendary figure, brother of Pious IV, that subsequently strengthened adding another building. From here every possible assault could be checked to the country. Fortitude was protected from a double line of bastions and from a ditch sowed of pointed poles and sharp blades. You could enter from an underground crack, from a walk connected to Musso and from a road coming from Dongo for the transport of the artilleries. Of the castle the ruins castled on Stone are still visible. ... Read more