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Lierna
Lierna lakeshore, Lake Como, Italy.jpg
Country Italy
Region Lombardy
Province Province of Lecco (LC)
Frazioni
  • Bancola
  • Casate
  • Castello
  • Cisarino
  • Genico
  • Giussana
  • Grumo
  • La Foppa
  • Mugiasco
  • Olcianico
  • Sornico
  • Villa
Area
 • Total 11.24 km2 (4.34 sq mi)
Elevation
202 m (663 ft)
Population
 (30 September 2017)
 • Total 2,124
 • Density 188.97/km2 (489.4/sq mi)
Demonym(s) Liernesi
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
22050
Dialing code 0341
Patron saint St. Ambrose
Saint day 7 December

Lierna is a comune in the province of Lecco in Lombardy, in north-west Italy. It lies on the eastern shore of Lake Como, about 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Milan and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) north-west of Lecco.

Lierna borders the comuni of Esino Lario, Mandello del Lario, Oliveto Lario and Varenna.

History

Lierna, 2016
View of Lierna.

The first mention of Lierna dates to 854 AD, but Roman remains, including a mosaic floor now in the Palazzo Belgioioso of Lecco, attest to much earlier settlement. The name of the village may be of Roman or of Celtic origin. Between 1035 and 1202 it was a feud of the Monastery of San Dionigi in Milan. Lierna was contested between Milan and Como, and between the Della Torre and Visconti families. It passed into the hands of the Marchesino Stanga in 1499, and in 1533 to the Sfondrati family [it] of Cremona, who held it until 1788. Lierna became a comune in 1743, when it was separated from that of Mandello.

In 1927 the Milanese sculptor Giannino Castiglioni opened a studio at his house in Lierna. He died in Lierna on 27 August 1971. He left some preparatory plaster casts to the comune; a museum to house them is under construction.

In 1933 an incomplete fossil of Lariosaurus balsami, a nothosaurid from the Middle Triassic (circa 240 million years ago) of which the first example was discovered at Perledo, some 10 km north of Lierna, was found in a quarry in the frazione of Grumo. It is now in the Museo di Storia Naturale in the Palazzo Belgioioso of Lecco.

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