Monte Cornizzolo (
Insubric
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''Curnisciöö'') is a
mountain
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situated between the
province of Como and the
province of Lecco
The Province of Lecco ( it, provincia di Lecco; Lecchese: ) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Lecco.
As of 2017, the province had a population of 337,211 on a surface of divided into 85 ''comuni'' (mun ...
,
Lombardy, northern
Italy
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, particularly in the territory of the village of
Canzo.
The peak reaches 1,241 metres in
altitude
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. It houses the Maria Consigliere
hut
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, open every Sunday throughout the year, at 1,100 metres above
sea level
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. Mount Cornizzolo is well known amongst
hang gliding
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and
paragliding
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fans, because it has got a launch camp available almost all year.
An element of historical interest is the Abbey of San Pietro al Monte, an 11th-century building which is located in a little valley on the mountain. It's a holy mountain, seat of
Pre-Celtic
The pre-Celtic period in the prehistory of Central Europe and Western Europe occurred before the expansion of the Celts or their culture in Iron Age Europe and Anatolia (9th to 6th centuries BC), but after the emergence of the Proto-Celtic lang ...
(e.g. the ''Coppelle'': cult of Water), Celtic (e.g. the ''Cepp da l'Angua'': cult of
Anguana), Roman (e.g. the ''Fons Sacer'': cult of Mars) and Christian worships. There are, at the foot of the mountain: the Shrine of Saint Miro, the Chapel of Saint Michael at Lazzaretto, the Chapel of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, La Santa, the Church of Saint Francis, the Church of the Saints Vitus and Modest, the Monastery of Saint Calocero, the Church of Saint Nazarus, the Church of Saint Andrew at Isella, the Pilgrims' House, the Church of Saint Steven, the Chapel of Our Lady of Caravaggio, the Monastery of Barnabite Fathers, the Church of Saint Lorence, the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snow, the Church of the Holy Spirit, the Church of Saint Antony, the Church of Saint Martin, the Church of Saint Thomas, and many other religious buildings.
The company
Holcim
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is going to add another quarry, next to the Abbey, destroying the 500 "casotte" traditional construction.
Mountains of the Alps
Mountains of Lombardy
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