Church

Church of Saint Andrew the Apostle

You arrive in Piazza alla Chiesa expecting one church and one façade. Saint Andrew’s has other ideas: repeated rebuilding and a twentieth-century enlargement left it with two public faces.

Address: Piazza alla Chiesa 2, Brunate
Area: Como, Italy

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Why it is worth the detour

Brunate’s parish church developed from a medieval religious complex and acquired two façades through repeated rebuilding and a twentieth-century enlargement. It also preserves the remains of Blessed Maddalena Albrici.

The Church of Saint Andrew the Apostle in Brunate is a hidden gem developed from a medieval religious complex. It features two façades from repeated rebuildings and houses the remains of Blessed Maddalena Albrici.

The people behind this address

Documented connections, not celebrity trivia.

Maddalena Albrici
Burial place
The remains of the fifteenth-century Augustinian religious leader are preserved inside the church.

What else is close by

The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.

50 m
Bellavista Hotel and Pencho Slaveykov Memorial
The funicular sends a new crowd up the hill, and the Bellavista opens its doors to catch the trade. Then a Bulgarian poet spends his final days here, giving this hotel frontage a second, more poignant life.
100 m
Campari Fountain
Someone looked at a village water source and thought: useful—but could it sell Campari too? The answer is standing in front of you.
150 m
Former Grand Hotel Brunate
The grand hotel is ready for guests: fifty rooms, a proud resort façade—and no funicular yet. Brunate is betting on a tourist boom before the easiest ride up the mountain has even opened.
150 m
Chalet Sonzogno
Turin, 1902: a wooden chalet is reportedly on display. Two years later, it resurfaces as third prize in a newspaper contest—fully furnished.
150 m
Villa Pirotta Bonacossa
A cotton magnate eyes an exceptionally steep Brunate hillside and decides it needs a miniature Versailles. Villa Pirotta Bonacossa is what happens when industrial wealth, artistic ambition, and gravity all refuse to back down.
450 m
Marenghi Park and the Pertugio Spring
In 1785, Carlo Amoretti disappeared into the Pertugio cave while Volta stayed above gripping the rope. The spring they identified is still collected here—under a cover most people could walk straight past.