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Tag Archives: History
Lake Como’s Star Crossed Lovers: 1) Osvaldo and Louisa
Lake Como’s Star Crossed Lovers: 1) Osvaldo and Louisa – the story of two film stars from the fascist era. He was ‘addicted to morphine and she was addicted to him’ and this led to their tragic end on April 30th 1945. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Events, History, People, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Banda Koch, Cinecitta, cinema, cinevillaggio, Decima MAS, fascists, History, Junio Valerio Borghese, Lano D'Intelvi, Louisa Ferida, Marozin, Osvaldo Valenti, partisans, Pietro Koch, RSI, Smuggling, telefoni bianchi, Vega, Villa Fossati, Villa Triste
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Lake Como’s Moltrasio Trunk Murder
Lake Como’s Moltrasio Trunk Murder – a vintage crime of passion during a honeymoon that turned sour. Continue reading
Posted in crime, History, People, Uncategorized
Tagged crime, History, Ispolatov, Mary Scott Castle, Metropole Suisse, Moltrasio, murder, Porter Charlton, Steamships, Transatlantic, Trunk Murder
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Como’s Pope and other Odescalchi
Como’s Pope and other Odescalchi. Florence has the Medici, Mantua the Gonzagas, Milan has the Visconti who merged through marriage with the Sforzas. Como for its part has the Odescalchi, Raimondi, Lambertenghi etc etc. Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Culture, History, People, Places of interest, Uncategorized
Tagged Alzate Brianza, aristocrats, Castello, Como, heraldry, History, Innocent XI, Innocenzo XI, nobility, Odescalchi, Pope, property auction, religion, Rome, stemme
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Murder on the Dance Floor- Italy’s Crime of the 20th Century on Lake Como
Murder on the Dance Floor- Italy’s Crime of the 20th Century on Lake Como; a high society crime of passion at the Hotel Villa D’Este in Cernobbio. Continue reading
Posted in History, Lake, People, Places of interest, Uncategorized
Tagged Bellentani, cernobbio, crime, high society, History, murder, villa d'este
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Through Conflict to Collaboration, Achille Grandi, Como and the Birth of the Republic
Through Conflict to Collaboration, Achille Grandi, Como and the Birth of the Republic – in memory of the post-war anti-fascist alliance. Continue reading
Posted in Events, History, People, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Achille Grandi, Allen Dulles, Alpini, Anti-fascism, Azione Cattolica, Badoglio, Captain Ricci, CGIL, Christian Democrats, church, CIL, Gronchi, History, Leo XIII, Mussolini, PCI, Politics, PPI, PSI, Rerum Novarum, SIT, Sturzo, Togliatti
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Heroism and Disaster in the Vallassina – Holocaust Memorial Day, January 27th
As a memorial to the millions of victims of the Holocaust I would like to recall the act of a young priest in Sormano who guided a party of 16 Jewish refugees to safety in Switzerland and set an altruistic example to his parishioners. Continue reading
Posted in History, People, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged church, Don Carlo Banfi, History, Holocaust victims, Muro di Sormano, Nesso, Pian del Tivano, resistance, Schuster, Sormano, Valassina, Vallasina
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Como Companion Tries Out a Social Media Strategy
Como Companion explains the purpose of its Facebook page and Instagram Continue reading
Posted in Events, Lake, People, Uncategorized
Tagged Como, Culture, estermarianegretti, ex-pats, History, Mr. Savethewall, nature, slowfood, slowtourism, tourism
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From Out of the Swamp, Novum Comum – Roman Como
Como is in origin a Roman city named Novum Comum and founded in 59 BCE by none other than Julius Caesar, the father of the Roman Empire. The Roman presence persisted from then on until the collapse of the western … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Culture, History, People, Places of interest, Uncategorized
Tagged augustus, baths, caesar, Como, Culture, forum, History, market, mosaics, museo archeologico, novum comum, pliny, roman art, san fedele, valduce
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