Moggio

In the woods above Moggio there was a mine, and during the war the Germans blew it up: they thought it was the partisans' hideout. Of the brick kiln at the locality of Piede Grosso, the Pé gròss, not even the foundations are left, and there is no industry in the village at all. Moggio lies at almost nine hundred metres, on the plateau of the Valsassina, and is the last village of the province of Lecco before the pass of Culmine di San Pietro, which leads into the Val Taleggio. The parish church of San Francesco d'Assisi, mentioned by Goffredo da Bussero, has been a parish since 1566 — until then it depended on Cremeno — and was rebuilt in the eighteenth century, after Federico Borromeo had already called for its rebuilding in 1614; inside there is a Rossi organ and a series of frescoes. The oratory of San Bartolomeo, on the other hand, was built by the Combi family, who then gave it to the brethren of the Blessed Sacrament.

Today the village lives on holidaymaking, and changes size with the seasons: in working periods there are five hundred of them, in summer and at Christmas they come to nearly two thousand. The reason lies higher up, at the Piani di Artavaggio, where people go to ski, mostly from the towns between Lecco and Milan. The cable car that takes them there was inaugurated in 1962 by the archbishop of Milan Giovanni Battista Montini, who the following year would become pope; it closed in 2000, stood idle six years and was reopened, renewed, in 2006, when it was the mayor who inaugurated it.