Lecco - a small town on the southeastern shore of Lake Como, about 50 km from Milan. According to the last census there are about 48 thousand people. Lecco is the capital of the homonymous province. In the north and east of the town tower called Bergamo Alps, dissected Valsassina valley.

Where is Lecco, Lake Como narrows and forms the river Adda - after she had built a lot of bridges to improve transport links with Milan. In the Lecco there are four bridges across Addu - Bridge Atstsone Visconti (1336-1338 years), the Kennedy Bridge (1956), Alessandro Manzoni Bridge (1985) and the railway bridge.

Archaeological finds indicate that the first inhabitants of these places were Celtic tribes. Then here came the Romans, who built a castrum - the type of military settlement and turned it into an important transport hub. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 6th century Lombards seized the city, which later changed Franks. A lot of time spent in Lecco Emperor Otto I, who suppressed a revolt of 964-year, raised the local Count Atton against the Holy Roman Empire. I stayed here and the Emperor Conrad II, who wanted to liberate the city from the church authorities. Lecco then became part of the Duchy of Milan and only in the mid-19th century, along with the rest of Lombardy became part of united Italy. During the Second World War, the city was an important focus of guerrilla struggle against the German occupiers.

Today Lecco - is a popular tourist resort. In the city there are about a hundred historical and cultural monuments, among which is particularly highlight the small Romanesque basilica of San Nicolo, Palazzo della Paura, Teatro della Sochieta, Palazzo Bovara and the church of Santa Maria.

Palazzo delle Pauri is on XX Settembre Piazza, facing facades to the promenade and Piazza Cermenate. This four-story building was built in 1905 for the local tax office, for which he received the name - "Palazzo della Paura" in Italian means "Palace of fear."

The Palazzo Bovara today houses the municipality of Lecco. The name of the building comes from the name of the architect who designed it, and sometimes can be misleading, because the same name are of the house where he was born architect Giuseppe Bovara and Villa Bovara - family estate. The construction of the Palazzo began in 1836 - initially it was assumed that this will be the first hospital in Lecco, but in 1843 the work had to be suspended due to lack of funds, and it is therefore conceived of the four courtyards managed to complete only one. In 1854 it was completed the facade of the Palazzo, with one side facing to Piazza Diaz, on the other - to the Piazza Lega Lombarda. Since 1928 the building houses the city hall.

Another interesting palace Lecco - Palazzo Falk, standing on the main square Piazza Garibaldi next to the Palazzo della Bank Popolare di Croce and the Palazzo Malta. Also worth seeing Villa Eremo with a spacious park, built in 1690, the year the Marquis Serponti, and Villa Manzoni, in which lived a famous Italian poet, novelist and playwright Alessandro Manzoni. Today, in this elegant neoclassical building is a museum dedicated to the writer. To the right of the villa you can see a small chapel built in 1777 - it is buried father Manzoni.