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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Passing through the entrance portal, visitors arrive in the entrance hall, one of the palace’s most spectacular spaces. Here, the contrast between the restrained exterior and the richness of the interior decoration immediately reveals the elegance of the residence. The walls depict Hercules, Neptune, Saturn and Vulcan, interpreted as allegories of the four elements: air, […]

The two hills known as “Paradiso” and “Castellaccio”, separated by the deep Caurga gorge and connected by a suspended footbridge, offer a route through trails, glacier-shaped rocks, and spectacular viewpoints. Since 1955, the park has been part of the Museum of Valchiavenna and represents a remarkable combination of natural and archaeological heritage. Giant potholes, erosion […]

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 […]

Their beauty even impressed Leonardo da Vinci, who celebrated them in his Codex Atlanticus, highlighting their distinctive double-drop formation that remains one of the most iconic features of the landscape today. The waterfall area is now organised as a natural park, easily accessible and designed to allow visitors to reach various panoramic viewpoints and experience […]

The Museum of the Via Spluga and Val San Giacomo is housed in a historic 16th-century building in the hamlet of Corti, Campodolcino. Its walls tell the story of the valley and the essential role played by the Via Spluga as a vital connection between the Mediterranean world and the lands north of the Alps. […]

At the northern end of Lake Mezzola, near the mouth of the Mera River and at the foot of Mount Berlinghera, stands this tiny Romanesque church, one of the oldest and most evocative in Lombardy. It can be reached on foot from Casenda in Samolaco or by boat from Novate Mezzola. Its secluded location protected […]