Parrocchia dei Santi Lorenzo e Agnese

The old church, well preserved.

Beautiful church in the village of Loveno

Very good holiday I spent, very good Android very quiet

SURREAL SITUATION, CHURCH IN A TOURIST AND INTERNATIONAL AREA WITH VILLAGE BIFOLCHI INSIDE - I enter this church and I find a group of 7-8 elders to pray. As soon as they notice me they ALL turn around (so they were very much concentrated in prayer !!) and they point their eyes on me like headlights. Okay, I ignore them and go to visit the threshold of the sacristy, very open, wide open, which shows tombstones bearing the names of the church's benefactors, including members of the illustrious Mylius and Vigoni families, industrialists, politicians, explorers and benefactors. Immediately a woman asks me if I am looking for someone, I repeat that several times I just want to visit. Then comes a man with a chubby face, a light blue T-shirt and a gray stubble beard and tells me that I can't stay here and that I have to leave. In my saying that this is an area completely open to the public and that there are tombstones to see, and that the town of Loveno is historic and worth visiting (which the gentleman certainly ignores), he speaks of "our church" and of "We decide", he also puts a hand on my back trying to lead me away. After hearing such beastly bullshit, I have to argue out loud in church, as I was undergoing a real harassment from a stranger. In the end the gentleman gives up, "allows" me to see, but then ... and makes the gesture of "go away". After a new discussion about my freedom to go wherever I want, this "boss" of his little world returns with folded hands on the benches. I REMEMBER that nearby there are two important INTERNATIONAL CENTERS, venues for business and cultural meetings such as Villa Vigoni and Villa Garovaglio-Ricci. Notice the parish priest, the mayor Michele Spaggiari or whoever is responsible: it would be better to inform the afternoon prayer group of this church that Loveno and its church are not owned by those 7-8 old people, and that there MAY also be visitors or tourists unknown. I do not dare to think what would have happened if in my place there had been a visitor of African ethnicity.

The reference point for the visit to Loveno is the Church of Saints Lorenzo and Agnese, of ancient foundation, built as a parish in 1641, testifying to the remarkable rank of the village, and rebuilt in Baroque forms in 1738. Excerpt from the Guide "Discovering Tremezzina" (Francesco Soletti, Edizioni New Press 2017).