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One of the more beautiful and operose goes them the province of Como is the Intelvi valley, that it puts in communication the Lake of Como with the Lake of Lugano.
The zone is green: the tops are covered of driven in forests, while on the pendii of mountains they are very obvious the balcony to man realize.

Grain and saws them was once the greater wealth of, they goes and exactly for this along the torrent Telo and others course of acqua minori numerous stone flour mills, still today visible, even if, are great part in ruin.

In order to catch up the Intelvi valley from Como, followed the lungolago in direction of Cernobbio, and in a score of kilometers it is arrived to Argegno, point of entrance of goes them.
Little beyond Argegno there's Cerano, that it possessed numerous flour mills and factories to poweridraulica. One of these has worked until 1975 and, after a short period of abandonment, and state recovered from the montana Community.
Draft of a flour mill that laughed them to the 600' and that for generations family belonged alIa Patriarch.
Beside the flour mill it rises forges it with a mallet, still in phase of recovery from part of the montana Community: here for centuries the objects in iron of common use in the fields were manufactured.
History : A colony of Etruschi withdrew itself to the inside of the Intelvi valley as a result of the roman conquest of the region.
This colony, given over to agriculture, it milled the grain with a particular type of flour mill to water, of origin it orients them, it did not work with stones rotary molars, but with one series of large pestelli in stone, it gains to you from carved cliff blocks. Two of these pestelli have been discoveries and recover to you to Ramponio, in XX September street, and the garden of villa Pellio.