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- Lake Como’s Wild Pack of Wolves February 14, 2023
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- Overnight on the Via dei Monti Lariani December 1, 2022
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Category Archives: silk
Gifts for Lovers of Lake Como
This article features a personal selection of gifts that lovers of Lake Como may well appreciate. Many of us love the lake’s evocative and dramatic landscape which leaves a lasting impression on the memories of past visitors. So many people may be delighted to receive a present closely linked to this charmed corner of the world. Continue reading
Posted in Art, Culture, Food, Lake, silk, Uncategorized
Tagged acqua del lago di como, acqua del lario, cantine angelinetta, local products, nero di como, occhi blu, olive oil, perfumes, presents, rivo gin, silk, sorsasso, vanini
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Como’s Four Seasons – 3: Spring, New Start, New Apps and New Plans
Como’s Four Seasons – 3: Spring. As new natural life brings a chromatic change to the city’s surrounding hills, a new commercial life begins with the start of the tourist season. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Events, Gardens, Lake, silk, Uncategorized
Tagged Spring, tourism, tourist information, villa erba
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The Como Group of Artists – ‘Astrattisti Comaschi’
The Como Group of Artists – ‘Astrattisti Comaschi’. How come a group of Como-based artists established themselves at the forefront of the abstract art movement in Italy and Europe in the 1930s? Continue reading
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Tagged abstract art, aldo galli, alvaro molteni, Art, astrattisti comaschi, carla badiali, galleria il milione, manlio rho, mario radice, Museo della Seta, ratti, silk, textile design
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Como’s Ines Figini, Auschwitz Survivor – A Celebration for International Women’s Day
Ines was a young girl working in Como’s largest silk factory when she took part in a strike that led to her deportation as a slave in Germany’s labour camps. This is a summary of her story for International Women’s Day. Continue reading
Posted in Events, History, People, silk, Uncategorized
Tagged Auschwitz, Birkenau, holocaust, Ines Figini, Mauthausen, Paolo Porta, Politics, Ravensbruck, strikes, Tintoria Comense, Umberto Walter
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Como’s December Delights
As the nights grow longer and temperatures get lower, Como goes through another of its periodical metamorphoses – producing a set of seasonal December delights. What better way can there be of exploiting the increased hours of winter darkness than … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Art, Art Nouveau, bernasconi, Campanini, cernobbio, Christmas lights, Christmas market, CittadeiBalocchi, Como, crime, Culture, film, Liberty, lights, Margaret Atwood, Noir, Sport, Teatro Sociale, Ticosa, war
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The Como Companion 