Water’s
Edge
«…What now seems beyond doubt is that the Town stretches along the right bank of the lake, opposite Lecco, and rests against a glacial moraine that protects it from the rays of the midday sun; it is therefore cool in “summer and even better in” winter.
And I believe that for many centuries it has enjoyed its picturesque position, because the Valle Magrera is the natural outlet of Upper Brianza towards the lake and Bergamasca; the ferry crossing that is still actively operated today with boats, and the port that predated the Azzone bridge, must have constituted a necessity even for the first inhabitants of these regions, making a colony of nautae, or boatmen, flourish here…»
