Lecco

The Manzoni Villa is a building in neocalssico style, constructed sure before the XVIII and more times restructured.

The residential construction is carried out around to a courtyard portico with columns in arnaria and comprises peasant and a wide garden in the back, already part of an immense park.

It belonged to the Manzoni family until 1818, allorchè it was sold to Scola; in 1962 it is last to the Common one of Lecco. The villa is center of the artistic section and historical documentary of the Civic Museums of the city.

In the courtyard on the left the tomba is found of the father of Alexander Manzoni, with the pregevole Shovel of the Vergine in Gloria, of the half of the XVIII sec.

The atmospheres of the flat earth constitute Know them Manzoniane to them where they are put documents, antique, furnitures of the writer, to the Association of Bologna the communal Gallery of Art is found, opened in 1938 that it collects painted of lecchesi painters, one cospicua collection of works of Ennio Morlotti, the collection of press and the library.

The Villa is caught up from the AncientBridge covering the way Amendola until the Wide Caleotto.
Alexander Manzoni sojourn to along in the villa during its adolescent, it drew from these places the greater inspirations for its famous one operates the "Promises Spouses".