Crana: interesting place for its scenic position on Chiavenna, for its happy exposure to the sun and for some type of spontaneous architecture.
Pianazzola and Dalò: perfect view on Chiavenna, and small village with diverse and peculiar architecture.
Savogno and Dasile: unique settlement, ideal place for a special kind of holiday addressed to people who love lonely places and unspoilt nature.
Uschione: interesting village, once inhabited permanently, starting point for several hikes.

Crana
A hundred metres above Cortinàccio (Prosto di Piuro) there is Crana terrace (or Grana - 558 m), from where you can see most of the Italian val Bregàglia, the town of Chiavenna and part of the land. At the foot of the Crana terrace there is the Palazzo Vertemate - Franchi, from Crana you can have a full view of it with its gardens and the big chestnut grove. In 1765 Cranna had 126 inhabitants and in 1931 only 55.

The place is amazing thanks to its scenic position on Chiavenna, its happy exposure to the sun and some type of spontaneous architecture.
The Church of S. Giuseppe was built in 1674 instead of a former chapel to proctect wolves from the area. After a century it was again enlarged and restored. The church, slightly beneath the main street, has a simple front with a rose-window above the dated portal.
The double arched small bell-tower stands on the right side, downstream, and it seems like keeping watch on the cemetery on the cliff.

Pianazzola and Dalò
It is a small village which houses typical country cottages and a small church called "S.Bernardino" (XV th century) with an interesting external fresco which dates back to 1495 and which represents St. Cristopher with his child.
It can be reached through a panoramic road.
It is a small village which houses typical country cottages and a small church called "S.Bernardino" (XV th century) with an interesting external fresco which dates back to 1495 and which represents St. Cristopher with his child.
It can be reached through a panoramic road.
From Pianazzola a path goes up steepish among thick chestnut groves to reach Dalò, (1066 m - 1 hour walk) typical village in S. Giacomo valley, once permanently inhabited. It is in a basin surrounded by wide summer pastures. On the Chiavenna-facing hummock, a big wooden cross was set up in 1704, then replaced by an iron one in 1981.

Savogno and Dasile

SAVOGNO (mt 932)
The most notable development began during the 15th century, when the summer grazing pastures and the transit areas towards Val di Lei began to be permanently inhabited.
Savogno is one of the most interesting centres of architecture of a spontaneous or improvised nature, characterised by the development of houses of considerable height, not surprising given the scarcity of available space, and making use of the only available building materials to be found: stone and wood.
The vertical nature of the buildings, following the natural terracing, is relieved by a series of wide interfacing galleries and by additional structures made totally in wood. The houses present a picture of both unity and harmony, and bear witness toa rather special building expertise.
About half-way between Borgonuovo and Savogno on the slope which until some tens of years ago had been worked for vines and pasture lands, you come across cowsheds typical of this area, with a stone base and the rest wooden, all in line as though on parade, and all more or less at the same height. Within one of them an ancient wine-press, the communal property of local wine-growers, has been conserved. Along the path between Borgonuovo and the cowsheds you come across a typical huge sixteenth century fountain, made on the spot from stone, and wonderfully positioned for the panoramic views.

DASÌLE (mt 1032)
Across the bridge over the Acquafraggia torrent, and towards the West, you find Dasile, it too is in a fine position for its panoramic views. The houses are all gathered around the little church of San Giovanni Battista, built in 1689 thanks to the generosity of emigrants to Venice, where they had become "i luganegheri" - "the sausage-makers"; that is they had little roadside shops where they sold pork sausages, tiny morsels of meat, hardboiled eggs, chestnuts, and soup to the poor.

Uschione
Beyond the "Deserto" (whose name comes from an old tavern where today there is the Istituto Don Guanella) a mule track starts and goes, step by step, to Uschione, passing through the green thick wood.
After a few minutes rise, you reach the Belvedere, a viewpoint which gives a full panorama of the town of Chiavenna.
Going further uphill, after a stable, there is a religious painting on its front and the path turns right around a pot stone wall, where you can find a marmitta dei giganti found out in 1975.
Other phenomena of glacial origin are a bit furher: sheep-backs, striped rocks and erratic granite blocks carried out by glaciers from Badile-Céngalo.
The path rises through the pine, larch and chestnut wood.
About half way between Chiavenna and Uschione there is a small chapel.
After a fountain and a natural cave, above which a small statue of Madonna stands, the path goes up steeper. The last part of the route, called "the stairs", runs along the once viny and vegetables terracing, now wild.

Uschione (832 m), an hour walk from Chiavenna and Prosto, is also accessible by car from Prata and passing by Lottano.
It was already mentioned in the XIII century and belonged to the Municipality of Prata until 1872, finally to Chiavenna.
It is organized in three districts and a court, by the names of the main families of the area.
The Pighetti district is closer to the Chiavenna facing side where there is also the church dedicated to the Ascension. The church was built in 1609, rebulit and enlarged between 1891 and 1893. It has a simple and nice front, two sidechapels and sacritsties. It was decorated by Silvestre Martinucci from Prosto in 1898. In 1926 a lightining struck and damaged the 1847 bell-tower (as it´s written on the architrave); the tower was separated from the church, in front of the main entrance, its two upper levels reconstruction was then necessary. Objects of great value are shown in the Treasure Museum of S. Lorenzo in Chiavenna.
On the same hill where the church stands there is a small Monument to the fallen, a bronze slab by Costantino Magni (1922) with an epigraph by Giovanni Bertacchi. A bit further, the silent cemetery stands among chestnuts. A short staircase goes down to the Nesossi and Zarucchi districts. Between the two, there is Fagetti court. Left to Nesossi district a level road leads to Valcóndria crotti, and further to Damino alp (1240 m). Beyond Nesossi a path going east, leads to, turning right, the alps Quarantapàn, Pesceda and Prato del Conte (1434 m); or, if going straight,it leads to Boc, where there are big stones smoothed by glacier and small crotti on the right. Further on, the path goes along the Italian val Bregaglia towards Villa di Chiavenna, through the alps Piana (whose sour cherries were famous), Casoli, Pradèla, Saranga, Tabiadàsc, Palùét, Cantón.