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The Monte Barro Regional Park is a beautiful window on Lecco, Lake Como and a wonderful range of biodiversity.
The Regional Park of Monte Barro takes its name from the calcareous-dolomitic type of rock tha make it.
It has natural borders: the eastern branch of Lake Como, Lake Annone and Lake Garlate and the Galbiate hills.
Woods, pastures and cliffs host an extraordinary floral heritage: in less than 700 hectares we find more than 1000 species of plants. A unique biodiversity allowing the park to be a site of EU interest.
The Park also hosts historical and archeological sites. The archeological excavations at Piani di Barra, discovered a unique Italian example of human settlements dated back to the Goths Age (V-VI century a.C.) together with evidences, ornaments, furnishings now hosted at the Archeological Museum of Monte Barro.
The Ethnographic Museum of Alta Brianza (MEAB), in the district of Camporeso in Galbiate, represents a great point of interest where the traditional life and activities of the working class of Lecco and Brianza is captured by images, videos and objects.
Monte Barro, thanks to its strategic position, hosts the Ornithological Station of Costa Perla, where migratory birds are controlled and studied.
Articolo aggiornato il 8 June 2022 da eccoLecco
What to do and see on Barro Mountain
Nature, archeology and history to discover at the museum of the Regional Park of Monte Barro in Galbiate.
The Monte Barro Regional Park is a beautiful window on Lecco, Lake Como and a wonderful range of biodiversity.
Departure: Malgrate
Time: 01:50
Altitude: 922 m
Difference in altitude: 600 m
Difficulty: E
Departure: Lecco
Time: 00:25
Difference in altitude: 138 m
Difficulty: E
At the hermitage of Barro mountain the small Gothic church of S. Maria hosts great frescoes dated back to the eighteenth-century.
Barro mountain in Lecco: biodiversity and many cues of environmental, historical and cultural interest.
Alta Brianza Ethnographic Museum (MEAB) in the Monte Barro Regional Park shows you the daily lifestyle of the working class in Lecco in ‘800 and ‘900.
