Chiesa Di San Giorgio

The frescoes in the Gothic style are very beautiful. Too bad it's difficult to open it. Almost always closed, except when doing religious services.

Very beautiful, great view of the lake. Too bad it was closed.

During a walk between Mandello and Abbadia Lariana, we came across this beautiful church. A small jewel completely frescoed with a wooden roof. According to friends we were lucky to find it open (it is usually open during Sunday Mass) A tip for those in the area is worth a stop, also because in the vicinity there is a fountain is a small park with a picnic table.

Beautiful little church. It overlooks the lake among nature

The church, located along an ancient route along the eastern coast of the lake, called "Sentiero del Viandante", stands in a suggestive panoramic position, on a hill at the end of a short climb that you take directly from the provincial road. The façade is gabled with a large portal with a slightly ogival arch. The interior has a single nave, covered by an exposed wooden trussed roof. It communicates, through a pointed arch, with the quadrangular apse, with a ribbed cross vault that refers to a Gothic construction phase. However, no traces of the original foundation of the presumed Romanesque age remain, which Don Paolo Bertarelli, parish priest from 1923 to 1951, saw during the restoration of the building, which was completed in 1940. The priest, in a report preserved in the parish, made, in fact, reference to the foundations of the original semicircular apse. Other indications of the previous construction phase were hidden in the fifteenth century, on the occasion of the creation of the vast cycle of frescoes visible on the walls of the nave and on the triumphal arch, which predictably involved some structural changes. This decorative complex has considerable iconographic interest and develops a complex theme of eschatological significance. Historical information There are no evident traces of the alleged Romanesque foundation of the cult building which, like many others in the Milanese diocese dedicated to San Giorgio, was omitted by Goffredo da Bussero in his repertoire of Ambrosian churches, composed towards the end of the 13th century. Some clues of antiquity have been identified by Oleg Zastrow (1992) in the internal hall which seems to have been illuminated by six single-light windows (three on each side) and by an oculus on the counter-façade. Among other things, below the cycle of eschatological subject that covers the walls of the nave, ascribable to the eighth-ninth decade of the fifteenth century, we can see frescoes of an earlier phase, even if not by much. This suggests that a sequence of interventions, even very close to each other, had to concern the very structure of the building. These considerations lead us to admit the existence of a construction phase dating back, at least, to the thirteenth century, which was followed by other structural interventions up to the end of the fifteenth century.

The Church of San Giorgio is located along the path of the Wayfarer. Very beautiful and full of frescoes. The panoramic position is also beautiful.

Visited this Saturday afternoon, hours from, 15.00 to 17.00 (for mass). Very beautiful frescoes. From the lawn in front of the church you can enjoy a beautiful view.