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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
Como harbour with the jetty and moored boats, the cathedral dome on the right and the Brunate hill behind the town.
Photochrom Print Collection · Public domain

Only the dates from the story ‘The red sweaters of the Grignetta'All dates

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Twentieth century

1900–1999 · 1 date

  1. The road reaches the Piani Resinelli

    A carriage road reaches the plateau below the Grignetta, the starting point of Lecco's climbers; until then the way up was a mule track. On the spires above the Resinelli, Riccardo Cassin and Mary Varale had opened the Via Mary on the Guglia Angelina in 1931.

    Place: Parco Valentino BelvedereStory: The red sweaters of the Grignetta

    The Campaniletto del Rifugio, one of the Grignetta's spires, at blue hour: a blade of grey limestone scored with cracks rises against the sky on the left, with a small marker on its top; on the right, far below, the lights of a town beside a stretch of water, more lights scattered across the plain and the dark outlines of mountains.