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- Lake Como’s Condottiere – The Marquis of Musso April 28, 2023
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- Como’s Famous Women: The wartime exploits of Ginevra Bedetti Masciadri March 14, 2023
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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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Como Silk – Memoirs of a Textile Designer
Como has been a tourist destination from the days of the Grand Tour but it maintains equal significance as a centre for silk production. Current visitors to Como might think that the silk industry is a thing of the past … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Culture, History, People, Places of interest, Uncategorized
Tagged abegg, archeology, bernasconi, cernobbio, Como, digitalisation, industry, inkjet, mantero, pinto, ratti, screen printing, silk, silk museum, villa erba
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Elegance at Villa D’Este
Today is the start of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este. This is an annual gathering of vintage cars and motorbikes along with their owners and admirers. In most previous years this event has mainly taken place within the grounds of … Continue reading
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Tagged auctions, bugatti, cars, concorso d'eleganza, luxury, villa d'este, villa erba, vintage cars
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