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MezzegraMezzegra, along with Bellagio and Varenna, completes the astonishing beauty of one of the most renowned and appreciated Italian frame. This charming village of 952 inhabitants is composed by 5 districts overlooking the Lake Como. Seeing that agriculture was the main activity, the name of the village might derive from the Latin toponym “inter agros”, that means “in the middle of fields”. Its most popular district is Giulino, where, along via XXIV Maggio, Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, and his lover Claretta Petacci, along with some fascist hierarchs were executed (or killed, the debate is still open) by a firing squad. Here, the 28th of April 1945, a very important chapter of the modern Italian history, has come to an end. The room in via Riale, 4, where the hierarchs spent their last night and now belongs to the house of Mr Giacomo De Maria has been kept intact thourghout the ages, and it should be easily visitable. The old town centre used to be the sixteenth-century district of Bonzanigo, that in the richly frescoed buildings (Palazzo Brentano, Casa Rosati, Casa Abbate, Palazzo del Vescovo) has preserved traces of the fortune of its original inhabitants, subsequently emigrated to Germany. The church of St Abbondio (Patron Saint of Mezzegra), is something not to be missed: it overlooks the lake, with a fantastic original concave façade with frescoes attributed to Giulio Quaglio and sumptuous Baroque furnishings. There is also the primitive Romanesque church, some decades later transformed into a canonic one and the small church of St Giuseppe that definitely worth a visit. Just above the built-up area, you will find Pràa de la Taca: a very suggestive hillock where, it is said, there were celebrated some Sabbaths. This area is also known as Monte degli Stampi – Mount of Moulds – thanks to the presence of fossils and phenomenons of karstification, similar to real human prints. This territory used to be cultivated with olive, grape-vine, and mulberry trees and on higher altitudes, people exploited huge chestnut-trees in order to get some firewood. Nowadays the grape-vine is still cultivated and there's indeed a good production of a lovely red wine called Mugnano, that you can enjoy in total relax in any of the traditional small local bars. |
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