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It was 1919, when Carlo Guzzi, genial technician and planner, built with the help of Giorgio Ripamonti his first motorcycle.
The motorbike a monocilindrica to four times of 500cc., Emanuele Vittorio Parodi, a wealthy Genoese shipowner, which granted a financing to start a factory of motorcycles.
It was so that Carlo Guzzi and Giorgio Parodi birth of Emanule they founded to Mandello Lario the Society Anonymous Moto Guzzi: it was the 15 March of 1921. Around first built motorbikes the writing G.P appeared. ; the initial of Guzzi and you Parodi, but to avoid confusion with the initials of Giorgio Parodi, the following models they were branded Moto Guzzi.
The eagle engraved on the logo was assistant later, to memory of the friend Giovanni Ravelli disappeared in an aerial accident. To make to know the mark Carlo decided to debut in the runs, and it immediately was a success; in September of 1921 the motorbike driven by Gino Finzi came first to the famous plate Florio.
It was the beginning of a series of successes that, between 1921 and 1957 it will bring the house of Mandello of the Lario to the conquest of 14 world titles. In the years '60 with the withdrawal from the runs, the founder's disappearance, the heavy crises that struck the motorcycle sector darkened the image of the glorious Italian mark. In 1971 the mythical V7 Sport was introduced that it was great successful.
Passed in 1973 to the group De Tomaso, the production it assembled around the development of the motor bicilindrico to V, become by now the distinctive character of the mark. The motorbikes of the years '90, from the series California to the series Nevada, to the V11 Sport, the fruit of that search and tradition that have for a long time characterized the mark Lariano. From 2000 the Motorbike Guzzi belongs to the group Aprilia.
Museum of the Motorcycle Moto Guzzi
(Via Parodi 57, Mandello of the Lario, tel.0341709111, schedule 15.16 in the weekdays, Saturday and Sunday only on booking)