Il Cammino Mariano delle Alpi
Il Cammino Mariano delle Alpi
  • A walking route amongst the Marian sanctuaries of the province of Sondrio
    A walking route amongst the Marian sanctuaries of the province of Sondrio
  • A walking route amongst the Marian sanctuaries of the province of Sondrio
    A walking route amongst the Marian sanctuaries of the province of Sondrio
  • A walking route amongst the Marian sanctuaries of the province of Sondrio
    A walking route amongst the Marian sanctuaries of the province of Sondrio
  • A walking route amongst the Marian sanctuaries of the province of Sondrio
    A walking route amongst the Marian sanctuaries of the province of Sondrio
  • A walking route amongst the Marian sanctuaries of the province of Sondrio
    A walking route amongst the Marian sanctuaries of the province of Sondrio
Via Occidentale
Via Orientale

Sanctuary of the Santa Maria delle Grazie e del Suffragio in Valpozzo

23010 Piantedo SO

The Sanctuary of Valpozzo lies along a road used for centuries by those traveling up the valley from the northern tip of Lake Como avoiding the valley floor, which was swampy until reclamation work in the mid-19th century.

Church of the Beata Vergine Immacolata

Via Superiore, 26, 23014 Andalo Valtellino SO

The first section of the Cammino mariano, leading to the old center of Andalo, cuts midway across the forested slopes of the Orobic Alps, which have historically provided so much work for woodcutters.

Church of the Beata Vergine delle Grazie

Via Pietro Paolo Parravicini, 30, 23017 Morbegno SO


The historical center of Morbegno features ecclesiastic buildings of exceptional artistic value, such as the collegiate church of San Giovanni Battista or the church of Sant’Antonio annexed to the Dominican convent.

Sanctuary of the Beata Vergine Assunta

Via S. Martino, 66, 23017 Morbegno SO

The early church, dedicated to Saints Lawrence and Bernard of Clairvaux, was built in 1418 along the old road heading toward Talamona from Piantedo following the edge of the valley.

Church of the Natività di Maria Vergine

Via Gavazzeni, 1, 23018 Talamona SO

The Talamona parish church is the one you were not expecting. It is a grandiose neogothic work built between 1920 and 1927, a full expression of the final phase of Eclecticism, which found greater expression here in Valtellina in private buildings and hydroelectric plants than in religious works.

Church of the Madonna delle Grazie

Street Cugnolo - 23017 Paniga SO

The small church dedicated to Our Lady of Graces was blessed in 1866, when Paniga was a small cluster of houses at the foot of the mountain known as Colma di Dazio, which marks the boundary between low and middle Valtellina.

Church of the Madonna delle Grazie

Street Cugnolo - Paniga, Morbegno (SO)

Built in the late 1970s, the gèsa növa [new church] of Paniga was designed by the renowned architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni (1913-2016), Milanese by birth but with very strong family ties to Valtellina and particularly to Morbegno, where he spent a great deal of his childhood.

Church of the Madonna del Buon Consiglio

Via Gaggio, 1, 23011 Ardenno SO

Leaving the valley floor, the Cammino mariano continues along lovely stretches of the old trail connecting villages scattered across the mountainside.

Church of the San Fedele

Via Roma, 1, 23010 Buglio In Monte SO

If you tour it along the valley bottom, Valtellina seems to be a very long valley delimited on each side by slopes that differ greatly from one another: to the south they are forested with chestnuts and other trees, while the southern-facing slopes to the north are characterized by vineyards and meadows surrounding villages perched here and there.

Church of the Beata Vergine Assunta

Via alla Chiesa, 180, 23010 Berbenno di Valtellina SO

In the Middle Ages, Berbenno was the seat of an extended parish. Local religious life gravitated around the baptismal church of Saints Peter and Paul, located on the valley floor near one of the few bridges across the Adda.

Sanctuary of the Santa Maria della Sassella

Loc. Sassella, 23100 Sondrio SO

The church of Santa Maria della Sassella has stood for centuries among the vineyards, a sentinel over the Sondrio basin. The building stands where the old Via Valeriana, after an uphill stretch, curves and descends towards the city.

Church of the Beata Vergine del Rosario

Largo Stella Fermo, 3, 23100 Sondrio SO

The church of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary was built between 1954 and 1960 to serve a new city neighborhood that originally took form as post-WWII public housing developments along Viale Milano and the Mallero River.

Church of the Madonna di Caravaggio

Street Madonnina, 435, 23020 Montagna in Valtellina SO

The amphitheater of vineyards encircling Sondrio is extraordinarily beautiful, shaped into terraces by the tireless work of the mountain folk who had little land on the valley floor and built kilometers of mortarless retaining walls to carve out patches of arable land on the slopes.

Church of the Madonna del Carmine

Sqauare of the monument 41, 23020 Montagna in Valtellina, Sondrio (SO)

The church of the Madonna del Carmine in Montagna is located at the back of the parish church of San Giorgio. It is at the center of an extensive religious complex on a hill formerly encircled by fortifications built in the Middle Ages. 

Church of the Madonna del Buon Consiglio

Piazza Buon Consiglio, 4, 23020 Poggiridenti SO

There is something mysterious about this church. It appears quite upwardly ambitious considering its small footprint, its façade is framed by two curious winglike elements, and the road bends around it in unceremonious proximity.

Sanctuary of the Santa Casa

Via Santa Casa, 48, 23020 Tresivio SO

The Sanctuary of the Santa Casa di Tresivio stands majestically on a verdant rise just outside the town center. The position has long been developed: a church dedicated to the Virgin was built on the hill around the end of the first millennium, dialoguing with a castle (now lost) perched on the summit and overlooking the valley.  

Church of the Madonna del Buon Consiglio

Via Senatore Enrico Guicciardi, 23026 Ponte in Valtellina SO

The church stands on a historic cobbled street that crosses the town from one end to the other, passing by the parish church of San Maurizio and the Jesuit church of Sant’Ignazio.

Church of the Santa Maria di Ligone

23036 Ligone (Santa Maria) SO

Leaving the vineyards and orchards on the alluvial fan of Ponte behind you, the path climbs up to Ligone, an old contrada of Teglio subdivided into three nuclei: one around the church of San Rocco (Ligone inferiore), the one where you are now (Ligone superiore), and one a bit higher up (Cuntradèl), a delightful cluster of typical rural dwellings that have been restored as vacation houses in an area strongly oriented to tourism.

Church of the Santa Eufemia

Via Roma, 3, 23036 Teglio SO

The vast Teglio promontory has been inhabited by humans since at least the 3rd millennium BC, as proven by the great number of petroglyphs and prehistoric relics that have been found there.

Sanctuary of the Madonna di Tirano

Piazza della Basilica, 1, 23037 Tirano SO

Built on the spot where the Virgin appeared in front of local resident Mario Omodei on 29 September 1504, it’s separate from the fortified town and sits strategically at the junction to the ancient church of Santa Perpetua that dominates the Tirano basin on a hilltop shaped by vineyards.

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