Blevio

It consists of seven hamlets, -the city- seven, mostly climbing on steep slopes of the mountains beyond.

For almost all the houses in the country has a large and enchanting views that made Blevio the selected site, in the past, for the construction of luxury villas, including one that is famous in the nineteenth century belonged to the famous singer Giuditta Pasta, where agreed poets, writers and artists. Among the many want to remember Vincenzo Bellini who, inspired by the breathtaking scenery of the Larian sunsets, wrote here some of -Sonnambula- pages. In the sixteenth century Blevio entered the Contrad of the Three Parishes, was then dominated by the Spaniards and the inhabitants built on the mountains of the quarantine hospitals to treat leprosy infected by Lanzitenecchi.

Built on the fraction of a walk of about an hour you can admire beautiful views of the lake and observe some huge boulders, including Nairola Stone is famous.