The Water Route

Architecture and history along the Lambro River

Route category: On Foot
LAMBRO

The itinerary proposes an understanding of the role played by the waters of the Lambro in relation to the historical and urban development of the city of Monza.

Starting from the Visconti Tower, the visit will allow us to rediscover the use of the waters of the Lambro River from medieval to modern times, analyzing the most important architectures that overlook its banks: the remains of the Ponte d'Arena bridge, the Ponte dei Leoni bridge, the hospital founded by St. Gerardo in 1174, the Colombo Mill, until we reach the Ponte Nuovo and the Lambretto, a detour of the river waters built by Azzone Visconti in 1333 for defensive purposes.

 

Details of the tour

Properties

Typology: On Foot

Where

Start point: TORRE VISCONTEA
Via Azzone Visconti, 20900 MONZA MB

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Destination: PONTE NUOVO
via Aliprandi, 20900 MONZA MB

VISCOUNT TOWER

The only element of the ancient complex of defensive walls and castle erected between 1325 and 1357 by the Visconti family, which remained unscathed by the total demolition carried out in 1809, the Tower looks like a quadrilateral built on the river, used as a prison from its construction until the second half of the 18th century. The typology of its cells made it famous by the name "Forni".

First experimenter was its builder Galeazzo Visconti himself, locked up with his brothers and sons for nine months by his former ally Ludovico il Bavaro. Visible in the tower are the slits of the drawbridge, a Gothic mullioned window and a stone coat of arms of Charles II of Spain.

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LIONS BRIDGE AND ROMAN D'ARENA BRIDGE

PONTE LEONI

PONTE LEONI

LEONI

LEONI

Constructed in 1842 on the remains of the Roman Arena Bridge (an archway of which can still be seen at one end of the present bridge) when Via Ferdinandea, now Via Vittorio Emanuele II, was opened, the Bridge of Lions consists of three arches with granite abutments. Guarding the monumental bridge on all four sides are four marble lions, the work of the sculptor Tantardini.
From the bridge there are two pedestrian passages that run along the course of the Lambro River, leading to areas once occupied by grain mills, irrigation ditches and wash houses.
A testimony to this ancient area, there remain the typical and picturesque balconied houses.

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COMPLEX OF SAN GERARDINO

SAN GERARDINO

SAN GERARDINO

PONTE SAN GERARDINO

PONTE SAN GERARDINO

The complex of San Gerardo intramurano or San Gerardino stands on the site where the Monza saint Gerardo had transformed his home into a hospital.

Founded in 1174, the hospital gave assistance to the sick, the poor, and orphans thanks to a precise internal organization and was the scene of several miracles attributed to Gerardo. The small inner church is dedicated to the saint, with Renaissance frescoes but renovated in late Baroque forms as well as the entire complex.

The founder's house, overlooking the Lambro River in a neighborhood formerly characterized by the presence of canals and mills, was reached by a footbridge often swept away by river floods, replaced in 1715 by the stone bridge that still exists.

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PIGEON MILL - MEMB

MEMB

MEMB

MEMB

MEMB

A monument of industrial archaeology, it is the only mill on the Lambro River still intact and complete in its original setting in the historic center. Already active in the early 18th century, it was originally used for grinding wheat, then for fulling wool and finally as an oil mill.

The building, composed of two parallel bodies of the building, preserves the millstone, the press and other ancient tools inside. It is named after its last owners who in 1987 made a gift of it to the municipality, which carried out restoration work. The space is home to temporary exhibitions and is managed by the Monza and Brianza Ethnological Museum. 

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NEW BRIDGE.

PONTE NUOVO

PONTE NUOVO

In 1333 Azzone Visconti, at the conclusion of the period of wars that had led the lords of Milan to finally conquer Monza as well, had a wall with a perimeter of about 3 kilometers erected, intended to protect the central core of the village. The walls were welded to the south around the great Castello Visconteo, of which only the Torretta visible from Via Visconti remains today; on the eastern side, for greater protection, an artificial branch of the Lambro, the Lambretto, was dug.
The moat begins at the very spot where the stone Ponte Nuovo was built, to this day the oldest existing walkable bridge in the city. From the bridge it is possible to see the base wall of the medieval walls, demolished in the 19th century.

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