Museo del Ciclismo Madonna del Ghisallo di Magreglio
Cycling shrine and museum holding champions' race bikes, jerseys and an eternal flame for fallen riders.
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The guide to the Museo del Ciclismo Madonna del Ghisallo in Magreglio, above Lake Como, opens with a torch blessed by Pope Pius the Twelfth in 1948 and carried on foot for four days, its final stretch run side by side by rivals Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi. A year later the pope named this hilltop chapel's Madonna the patron saint of cyclists, and champions began treating the sanctuary as a place to leave something behind before a race. You'll hear how racing bicycles and sweat-soaked jerseys ended up on display inside, offered rather than kept. Stop at the lamp still burning in the chapel before you walk the museum floor.
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