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| Lake Como - [Menaggio] [Map]
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Menaggio's hold out on a small
cape where the Lake Como reveals in all it's awfulness. Optimal
its receptive and sport equipment, graceful the dock often full
of boats multicolors.Menaggio during the war of the ten years was opposed to Como, it suffered pillages and destructions in 1400 and 1500 as a result of which went abbatute it walls them that they defended the village. Here, born the scultore Leone Leoni (1509-1590) said improperly the Aretino. Between the churches the poligonale Sanctuary of the Madonna of the Peace (in Nobiallo fraction deserves a signal) built up in 1660 in order to celebrate the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659), a stage of the Spanish forfeiture. The particularly mild climate of Menaggio, ventilated from Breva and the Tivano, and the optimal position to the sun amazing and exotic flora on the lungolago to the beginning of the century or in the parks of the numerous villas concurs the created life with one; they make from wonderful frame the PreAlps Orobie and the Retiche. Menaggio draws from the tourism and the tertiary good part of the yield; they are present however also industries you weave them and handicraft, that often they are melted on secular traditions,
like that one of the working of the silk and copper.Many walks of every length, all in a entusiasmante panoramic frame cheer the permanence of the tourist, we signal the carrozzabile that they knows to you until Plesio and to Breglia, m.785, where the panorama and the vegetation truly remove the breath in how much to harmony and beauty, or until the shelter of the C.To.I. on the Grona Mount to 1400 m. crossing of paths towards the High lago, Senagra Goes them and it Cavargna goes them. |
Countries of Lake Como |
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