- Bars – The restaurant and bar in Pianazzola (Osteria Micheroli) is a good place for a coffee or beer and catch up with the local gossip. Also to ask your way round. The owners also live there and you may well find yourself in their kitchen! They are v friendly, and have spectacular views from the . Otherwise head to Chiavenna
- Shops/Supermarket – As well as the shops in the centre of town, there is a hypermarket (Iperal) on the right as you enter Chiavenna from the South (turn right just after the first roundabout as you enter the town). It sells food and pretty much everything else
- Hospital – Via della Cereria 4 tel: +39 0343 67111
- Pharmacy – Via Dolzino 56. tel: +39 0343 32245
- Banks (+ ATM or Bancomat as it is known in Italy) – Banca Intesa, 1, p. Ernesto Ploncher tel: +39 0343 32307. Banca Popular di Sondrio, Via Francesco Dolzino, 67, +39 0343 26211
- Tourist info – at Chiavenna train station. Tel: +39 0343 37485
- Taxi – Ciocca. Tel: +39 0343 34377