Stop 01
Where the Lake Ends
On the spotQuestion
I have hidden the names of the places, but I left one sign: a bridge that “marks the point where the lake ends, and the Adda begins again”. The manuscript starts here. So does your work as a copyist.
World · Lombardy
That Branch of the Lake: the Manzoni Trail
The novel is over, the landscape is not: find the places where Manzoni's pen still touches the stone.
AMYour guide: The Anonymous Author of the Manuscript
7hours
22quests
8stamps
2prizes
Where it is played
That Branch of the Lake: the Manzoni Trailon foot · 22 quests
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“Welcome, copyist. I am the Anonymous, author of the seventeenth-century manuscript that someone later found and put in order. In 1628 I hid the true names of the places, because some things are better written “plainly”. And now they have all disappeared.”The Anonymous Author of the Manuscript
The walk
One walk, at your own pace
On foot
22
stopsOn foot (bus or car for the Rocca)
6 with a photo4 hidden3 unlocked by completing others
A taste
Taste four stops
What the narrator asks you. The answer, and the true fact behind it, is for you to find on the spot.
Stop 06
The Palace of Fears
On the spotPhotoQuestion
A palace that the people of Lecco christened with a ghostly name. No spectres: it is, more sadly, about taxes.
Stop 14
The Villa among the Mulberry Trees
On the spotQuestion
Here the Manzoni family had a home for two centuries. From these windows Alessandro saw the lake and the mountains that he then carried, word by word, into the novel.
Stop 20
The Wedding Church
On the spotQuestion
Here, “according to tradition”, Don Abbondio celebrates the wedding of Renzo and Lucia. A cobbled churchyard waits for your answers. Stay outside, and lower your voice.
Stamps and prizes
8 stamps, 2 prizes
PP
The BridgeLL
The LakefrontBM
The Bronze and the WallsPR
Pescarenico, Left BankCM
Casa ManzoniCP
The Hills of the BetrothedRR
The RoccaSA
The Anonymous Author's SealThe prizes
The Anonymous Author's CopyistThe Anonymous Author's Seal