San Francesco (Chiesa del Lazzaretto)

A well-liked place for all objects

Small church on the edge of the forest.

And a nice little church to visit

Beautiful old church and beautiful area

A place of peace and silence where you can spend moments of rest, reflection and prayer

Surrounded by greenery but a stone's throw from the center of Oggiono. The church is beautiful and well kept. From there begins the path that leads to the hermitage of San Genesio, a disused Camaldolese monastery.

It is a small church, in the middle of the green, 5 minutes from the town center, but it is an oasis of peace. It has a huge square, benches under the trees, but cars cannot access it. Originally it was a Lazzaretto, where people with leprosy were housed, then they were buried there and after various vicissitudes, they now rest in an ossuary under the floor of the church. Entering there is a choir which is accessed by a temporary staircase, the balustrade is in marble with inlays tabernacle settecentesca.il bill is in walnut, surmounted by a big shovel, look at photos. I want to dwell on the bare internal simplicity, I saw two marriages celebrated in this "little church favor" and believe me they were one of a kind. Then it has a porch with columns and two beautiful windows with iron gratings, the square and depending on the season you will have trees with leaves of different colors. Then there is a fountain with spring water and from there a road starts, leading with a stone stairway in the middle of the woods at the moment no longer a hamlet, but Via Chiare 'and from there you can continue with a paved road in different paths. view that you will admire while walking is crazy. because it is the hill that dominates Oggiono, so you will see the town, the Church, the elementary school that dominates above, Villa Fasoli and Villa CacciaDiminioni and moving the lake and the bridge of Civate of the SS36, every km you do, will open up a landscape and a different postcard.