The Hermitage

The Hermitage
Originally uploaded by anbri22.

Eremo of St. Caterina del Sasso
Yesterday on Lake Maggiore - Italy

Church S.Caterina del Sasso is much evocative one, it has been built up between the end of XII the century and the start of XIII the century, and widened in the centuries succeeded to you.
Founded from the merchant Alberto Besozzi after to be escaped to the shipwreck after a storm it has been constructed on the very high rocks on the lake Maggiore, whose cliff sinks in the dark of waters of the lake where it catches up the depth of 200 meters here.

You can be arrived on foot or with a boat from the lake..

Uploaded by anbri22 on 27 Feb '05, 9.04pm CET.