Lecco

Italian comune in Lombardy

Lecco is a city in northern Italy. Lecco is in the Lombardy Region with 46,477 inhabitants.

Lecco and the Mt. San Martino
Coat of arms

History change

If the Como side of Lake Como has become known to tourists due to the presence of large hotels, the Lecco branch is historically the most important and exclusive and with the most beautiful lake and the mountain setting, studied for a long time by Léonard De Vinci, here the confidential and hidden villas of the great Italian industrialists and nobles, as well as the nobles of ancient Rome, including the Villa Comedia De Plinio the young man in the secret village of Liena, the foundation of the order of the knights of the Italian royal family from Savoy.

Real estate market change

The most requested luxury area is the Lake Como center which overlooks the iconic tip of Bellagio and goes from Tremezzo, Griante, Menaggio to Lierna, Fiumelatte and Varenna. The cost for apartment need from 5,000 to 7,000 euros per square meter, even if some penthouse have been sold for 25,000 euros per metre, the not indipendent villa need between 10 to 15.000, the indipendent villa with lake view more them 25.000 for square metered; when renting, the cost of 80 square meters can reach 7,500 euros per month (excluding condominium costs). Lake Como today is consider a super exclusive neighborhood of Milan.

Arts change

The painting by Leonardo da Vinci, "The Virgin of the Rocks", kept in the Louvre, is located in the cave of Lecco in Laorca. In the painting you can see the spikes of the Val Calolden, the Sasso Cavallo and the Sasso Carbonari. It is not a question of random elements, but of sought-after references, to trace a historical map of the Sforza of Milan. Leonardo also made the map of Lecco, A plan of the city before the construction of the sixteenth-century walls designed by Leonardo da Vinci, in which you can clearly see the fourteenth-century fortifications, the arc of the lakefront, the course of one of the streams that crosses the city with four mills and a tower, now incorporated in the walls. In the Windsor codes, we can trace drawings of snowy crests that belong to the Lecco landscape. We list, among all, the central massif of the Grigne, seen from the Brianza mountains that he traveled. The jagged profile of Due Mani and Resegone portrayed from Lake Oggiono and from Garlate. The hurricane in a valley between the mountains that among the low clouds, gathered between Moregallo and S. Martino, shakes the Lecco basin with winds.[1]

References change

  1. "/leonardo-da-vinci/#:~:text=The%20idea%20of%20project%20of,of%20doing%20i%20first%20studies Leonardo da Vinci Lecco Lake Como". Archived from the original on 2022-11-23. Retrieved 2022-11-23.

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