Sentiero Del Viandante Varenna-Bellano ENG
THE FUNICULAR OF REGOLEDO Suddenly the path gets past a deep A LITHOLOGICAL The path, and large man-made wall: it is what BOUNDARY always duly remains of the funicular which, at Looking closely at the walls along marked with the beginning of the century, linked the track, you will notice that at modest mo- up the railway station to the imposing hydrotherapic place, a certain point the stones numents to the founded at Regoledo by Francesco become different from those seen popular faith, Maglia in 1858. The Grand Hotel before. At first they are greyish calcareous stones or purple red lowers toward Regoledo, as was called in those the railway times, had renowned guests among porphyries then there are very which Arturo Toscanini, Ippolito clear granitic stones (gneiss and station, gets Nievo, Amilcare Ponchielli, padre schist). The fact is that you have over a small Agostino Gemelli, Massimo D’Azeglio, got past the partition line bridge on the Antonio Stoppani, Cesare Cantù. between the sedimentary cover, typical of the foothills of the Alps dell of Biosio The strange building, very long and and goes down narrow, is now a branch of the and which was formed in the Istituto Sacra Famiglia of Cesano Triassic period (250 - 210 millions in sight now of Boscone and can be seen high up, of years ago), and that of the the Pioverna crystalline base that here dominating a wide green clearing. delta where emerges. Bellano lies. The quiet Cappella della Madonna Addolo- rata (Chapel of Our Lady of Sor- rows) comes before the junction with the provincial road 62.
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