Bottonera Mill in Chiavenna

The Treasure Museum is housed within the evocative Collegiate Church of San Lorenzo, a complex whose origins probably date back to the 5th century AD. The portico, built between the 17th and 18th centuries to enclose the cemetery and host religious processions, surrounds the area with understated elegance, while the 16th-century bell tower watches from […]

The firefighters of the Mese Fire Station, heirs to the tradition of the Chiavenna Fire Brigade founded in 1868 as the Municipal Fire Brigade, have proudly preserved the evidence of this long history. Within the station premises, the Historic Gallery of the Valchiavenna Municipal Fire Brigade was created and completed in October 2002. Each exhibit […]

The Piuro Excavation Museum, located within the sacristies of the Church of Sant’Abbondio, preserves the remains of a thriving community destroyed on 4 September 1618 by the landslide from Mount Conto. One thousand lives were lost as houses, churches and palaces were buried beneath three million cubic metres of rock and mud. The disaster echoed […]

Here, the images, tools and voices of the picapréda—the stonecutters who shaped the destiny of the village—come back to life. For generations, men and entire families quarried and worked Sanfedelino granite, named after the first quarry, that opened beside the small shrine dedicated to Saint Fidelis, a martyr of 298 AD. From this compact grey […]

Established in October 2008 by the Samolaco Library Cultural Association, the museum extends across four raised floors and a basement. Originally conceived as a photographic museum, it preserves illustrated panels dedicated to the history of the village, local traditions, work and life in the mountain pastures, with captions translated into several widely spoken languages to […]

Founded in 1982 by the Associazione Amici della Val Codera ONLUS and officially recognised by the Lombardy Region, the Val Codera Historical, Ethnographic and Natural History Museum presents the valley as an Eco museum, with exhibits spread across the villages of Codera and San Giorgio, both reachable only on foot. Here, every visit becomes a […]

The building, now home to the municipal library, once housed the village dairy. Here, among bookshelves and reading spaces, two rooms display the traditional equipment used to transform fresh milk into butter, cheese and dairy products, allowing visitors to discover a world that once stood at the heart of local daily life. The museum is […]

Walking through the 200-metre main tunnel, visitors enter an atmosphere suspended in time. The echo of footsteps recalls those of the soldiers once responsible for maintaining the gallery. It is easy to imagine the vast quantities of explosives stored in the flooded shafts, ready to sever road and railway connections if necessary. The underground labyrinth […]

Passeggiare nel centro storico di Chiavenna significa attraversare un tessuto urbano ricco di dettagli architettonici e stratificazioni storiche. Le facciate decorate, le fontane e i portali in pietra ollàre, spesso ornati con motivi floreali e geometrici, definiscono l’identità visiva del borgo e testimoniano una tradizione artigianale profondamente radicata nel territorio. Il centro, sviluppatosi in gran […]