Stories from the lake
Lake timeline
Two thousand years of the lake in order of date: from the Roman road along the western shore to the first steamboat, from the fall of the Isola Comacina to the Olginate dam. Each date leads to the story that tells it and to the place where it happened.
- Dates
- 82
- Stories
- 27
- Periods
- 6
Only the dates from the story ‘The two Plinys of Lake Como'All dates
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Renaissance and foreign rule
1450–1699 · 1 date
A villa around the Pliniana spring
Count Giovanni Anguissola, governor of Como, buys the land at Torno where the spring described by Pliny the Younger rises, and builds the villa there in three years. In the loggia two inscribed slabs carry Pliny's letter, in Latin and in Italian.
Place: Villa Pliniana, TornoStory: The two Plinys of Lake Como
