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Mandello Lario is placed on one peninsula nearly of forehead to Onno, it's dominated to the shoulders from the walls and the towers of the Grigna.

Mandello Lario is a tourist place from the optimal climate, squanderer of walks and ascensions of every length and difficulty.

It's origins at least go back to the roman age rooster, but the power of Mandello Lario asserts in the Middle Ages when it tightens an alliance with Como during the guerrra against Milan.
Milan had the better one and in the 1160 Mandello it was semidestroyed, then it was submitted to the Visconti, it passed finally to the Sfondrati until to 1788.

Rinomate was for centuries, the silks woven from botteghe the craftsmen of Mandello.

A visit is advised also to Sanctuary Madonna of River, true jewel of the Lombardic late Baroque (photo), with inside make precious from putties, gildings, it frescoes and burlaps painted from Giacomo Antoni Santagostino.

Affrescoes of remarkable interest of the end of 1400 and of first of 1500, they are included in the church of S.George and in that one of S.Zenone, in Tonzanico fraction.