Torre Cecilia
There are many landscapes of Lake Como and its mountains drawn by Leonardo da Vinci, the object of his studies during his stays in Lierna. Leonardo da Vinci will study in the mountains above Lierna, from Porta di Prada to Rocca di Baiedo, from Fiumelatte to Bellagio, which "unites the two opposites into one", up to Monte San Martino, Resegone and the "Giardino di Pietra", not only the mountains but also the streams and caves beneath them, which radiate as he said like the veins of the human body. For Leonardo da Vinci, the mountains of Lake Como contain all the secret of the antiquity of the world, an essential part of the great cosmic cycle that binds rock, water, sky and the belly of the earth together. Leonardo da Vinci not only shows a theoretical interest in the mountains, but explores them in person, becoming a mountaineer in his own way.