Category: Monument/Commemorative site
Itinerary: Hermitage and Former Lake, The Great Traverse, The Via Francigena, Country churches, hermits’ retreats and abbeys, among ancient marshes and long-forgotten lakes
Not far from the hermitage of S. Leonardo stands the so-called Pyramid, an obelisk to the memory of the eighteenth century draining of the area below, which is still known today as the Pian del Lago [the Lake Plain]. The Pyramid also signals the start of the Grand Duke's canal, a tunnel of around two kilometres long which served to permit the running off of the waters and which is perfectly preserved and still usable today.
