Webcam Sondrio Centre
Sondrio Centre (308 m), (local time): 17 °C, rain, feels like 18 °C, wind 2 km/h E, humidity 92%. Source: Open-Meteo, at the camera's altitude.
Sondrio centre webcam: Piazza Garibaldi, 19th-century drawing room of Valtellina's main town, at 308 metres. For weather on the valley floor.
Straight-line distances from Sondrio Centre
This webcam, in brief
How the camera works and what to expect from the images.
What can you see from the Sondrio webcam?
Piazza Garibaldi, in the centre of Sondrio, at 308 metres. It is the reference camera for the weather on the Valtellina valley floor.
What is the weather like in Sondrio now?
The webcam shows it in real time, with the time of the snapshot. Sondrio sits at 308 metres: snow in the town is rare and does not last, while on the mountains around it there can be snow as early as November.
What is there to see in Sondrio?
Piazza Garibaldi with its 19th-century palazzi, Palazzo Pretorio in Piazza Campello, now the town hall, Castel Masegra with its museum of mountain stories, and the terraced vineyards of Sassella and Grumello, which begin right above the town.
Where does the Mallero run through Sondrio?
The Mallero stream comes down from Valmalenco, crosses the town and flows into the Adda: Sondrio grew up on this confluence.
How do you get to Sondrio?
By train on Trenord's Milan–Tirano line; by car on the SS 38 from Colico. Sondrio is on the road between Lake Como and Bormio.
Discover Sondrio
Piazza Garibaldi is the young part of Sondrio. Until the early 19th century there were fields and farm buildings here; then came the Regia Strada Postale, the royal post road that replaced the old Via Valeriana, and the Austrian government set out to make the square the centre of a modern provincial capital. The people of Sondrio called it "Piazza nuova" to tell it apart from "Piazza vecchia", today's Piazza Cavour.
The name changed with the governments. The square was first named after Emperor Francis I and then, with the unification of Italy, after Victor Emmanuel II. In September 1909 the statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, by the sculptor Francesco Confalonieri, was placed at its centre, and the name has stayed ever since. On the north-west side, in front of Palazzo Martinengo, a monument of 1839 commemorates Ferdinand I of Austria and the embankments of the Mallero, built after the flood of 1834.
In 1512 the Three Leagues of Graubünden moved the seat of government of Valtellina from Tresivio to Sondrio, and in 1839 an imperial decree raised it to the rank of royal town. The railway arrived from Colico on 16 June 1885 and went on to Tirano in 1902. Today there are about 21,000 inhabitants, and in 2007 Sondrio was Alpine Town of the Year. For the weather in the rest of the valley, see the Sondrio page, the other Valtellina webcams, Morbegno, Valmalenco or the map.
Did you know?
The name Sondrio comes from the Germanic 'sundrium', the land a lord had farmed for himself. Piazza Garibaldi grew up in the nineteenth century around the Teatro Sociale, designed by Luigi Canonica and opened in 1824.