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It appears charming and shining to whom arrives from the bridge. The St. Paul’s Tower proudly stands out as propitious symbol of the medieval origin: belonged to the ancient walls, today it is used as bell tower. The historical centre is the salon of the urban life: the main street Lantieri shows colored boutiques and restaurants, the squares welcome art exhibition, melodious events and the famous Festival of street artists, that also this year will introduce a Kermesse of over 40 national and international companies that are going to animate with more than 190 different shows beautiful evenings on July 29^th and August 1^st 2010. In the evening the Sarnico’s lakeside gives boldly vent to hundreds of young people going for a walk, looking for meetings place where indulge in passions and thoughtlessness, typical of a magic summer night. Instead, during the day, the lakeside is a sunny and airy walk with tourist small port and café, where getting fresh with a drink or a tasty ice cream. Beautiful residences as Villa Faccanoni, Villa Surre, Villa Passeri, show facades with liberty decorations, synonymous of opulence. It’s amazing to walk among narrow lanes in the historical centre and penetrate in silent alleys that jealously guard treasures of the fifteenth-century architecture as the small St. Paul’s church, built on the traces of Marenzi’s Castle in 1428, in the homonymous square. The entry, surmounted by a portal made  in stone of Sarnico, is located in the long side of the construction. Inside, frescos of the '400. A little far, the Gianni Bellini Gallery is situated, born thanks to Don Gianni Bellini donation of around 150  art works, mostly pictures, dated between 1500 and the 1700. The gallery is located in the most  ancient part of Gervasoni’s Palace, a building of  XV sec., placed in the highest point of the historical centre of Sarnico. Once convent of nuns, become then residence, "Palace Gervasoni."A little upwards form the historic centre, one finds the ‘Parrocchiale’ of 1700, a church dedicated to ‘San Martino of Tours’. Inside many decorations and paintings among which the valuable painting that represents ‘San Martino e l’imperatore Vanentiniano’. Few meters away from Parish, you find St. Rocco’s Chapel, where anciently  - that is up to 1809, before the construction of the cemetery -  the dead men were buried.  If you are not tired for the walk yet, you should even visit the little church of the Saints Nazario and Rocco in hamlet Castione dated 1300;  internally and externally there are valuable frescos. After a long walk, a restorative break is required, in a restaurant or an inn of Sarnico, where you will find dishes of local typical cooking, sipping a glass of Valcalepio wine.  After a generous lunch, to get rid of too much calories, the time of exercises goes off, even a beautiful walk among the vegetation of the Sentiero Forcella Molere. Just above the centre of Sarnico, at a 400 m height in a panoramic position towards the lake lays the walking path Forcella. From the parking place of the postal office in ‘Corso d’Europa’, taking the ‘via Faletto’ and after that the path called ‘Percorso della Madonna’, within little time you’ll reach Bivio della Forcella. The path goes on following turning slightly to the left. The landscape around you is enchanting and the vegetation makes it typical Mediterranean. During your walk you’ll be able to admire the chapel ‘Consacrata alla Vergine’, the small church of the alpins, ‘La Rocca de’ Zucchellis’ and at the end of the route, the small church of the saints Nazario and Rocco. Or you can indulge into cuddle laid on lawn carpets near the beach Nettuno, a vast equipped area, very green.  Nearby,  there are the Sarnico’s Boat Club, an equipped area for Camper and a supermarket.

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