Known for being the place where the writer Alessandro Manzoni set I promessi sposi, the city is located in one of the vertices of the Lariano Triangle, on the left bank of the Adda river as well as overlooking the eastern branch of Lake Como. Included in the Orobic pre-Alps, between the Grigne group and the Resegone, its urban agglomeration has over 114,000 inhabitants including several municipalities in the district including: Calolziocorte, Galbiate and Valmadrera.
Strategic crossroads for Valtellina, Lecco assumed increasing importance during the Middle Ages when, following the Peace of Constance, it was annexed to the Duchy of Milan which gave it the current urban layout, but it was in the second half of the 19th century, during the dominion Austrian, that the city went through a particularly flourishing period which led to the construction of palaces and arcades in neoclassical style. After the unification of Italy, Lecco established itself as one of the first industrial centers in Italy thanks to the development of the steel industries, already active in the twelfth century, which gave it the nickname of iron city.
The municipal area has a highly variable altitude distribution; in fact it varies from 198 meters a.s.l. in the lake area up to the maximum altitude of 1875 meters above sea level of Mount Resegone and this offers the city three areas differently characterized both in terms of morphology and climate due precisely to the mountainous area, the lake area and the third link between the mountain range and the lake. Morphologically, the Lecco area is the result of the numerous glaciations that have hit the planet, a circumstance evident in the appearance of the surrounding mountains, one above all the Grigna, which show all the characteristics of the glacial excavation.
Lecco
Address: Piazza Diaz, 1, 23900
Phone: 0341 481111
Site:
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