W hat does summer taste like? In Lombardy, June is the perfect month to find out. The start of the summer season combines the pleasure of savouring typical products with the appeal of exploring the…
Rif. Bignami 2382m
OPEN: from mid March till mid Mai for the ski mountaineering season and from the beginning of June till mid September The extremely easy access offers the possibility to reach the shelter to the…
Trekking with Alpacas
Alpacas are great trekking companions. They bring adults back to their childhood and children are crazy over them. The La Foppa farm aims at offering you a slow experience , in touch with nature. A…
Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza
B uilt in the 18th century as the Marquis of Menafoglio’s “palace of delights”, the place where he held his parties and events, after changing owners a few times, the villa was bought in the 1950s by…
Villa e Parco Toeplitz
V illa Toeplitz is a beautiful villa of eclectic architecture located in the Varese district of Sant’Ambrogio, at the foot of the Italy’s Sacro Monte hill, with a series of chapels leading up to the…
Villa della Porta Bozzolo
V illa Bozzolo, with its Rococo trompe-l’oeil,frescoed vaulted ceilings and walls and Baroque decor, is one of Lombardy’s best-known “pleasure villas”, extravagant country residences built for their…
Rif. Bosio Galli 2086m
OPENING: from the beginning of June till the end of September From the shelter one has different choices of excursions, from the lakes (Zana, Arcoglio, Cassandra) to the mountain pastures (Zana,…
Routes for Walkers of All Levels
Besides many shelters of Valmalenco, easily attainable from families and who approaches to the world of hiking for the first time, we signal some simple itineraries suitable for …
Angera circuit
The route starts in the centre of Angera before climbing up to its fortress and Monte San Quirico (on a gravel track) before continuing to Ranco as far as glacial erratic Sasso Cavallazzo. It then…
St. Augustine's Way
T he Way of St. Augustine is a Marian pilgrimage in the name of the Saint of Grace, designed to reach and connect in its stages fifty Marian shrines in Lombardy. The route also touches on three…
Way of St. Columba
T he Way of St. Columbanus is an ancient pilgrimage route that crosses much of Europe and traces the footsteps of the 6th-7th century abbot from Ireland, his homeland, to Bobbio, site of the famous…
Monks' Way
A mong the paths of faith, one cannot forget the Cammino dei Monaci, an itinerary that runs southward from Milan to the Po River and the Via Francigena. When the route reaches Corte S. Andrea , the…