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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 lake's first photographers'All dates

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Nineteenth century

1800–1899 · 1 date

  1. The lake in two lithographs from daguerreotypes

    A year after the daguerreotype was presented in Paris, the lake is already among the subjects of the first photographers. Two lithographs copied from daguerreotypes show Bellagio from the lake, signed Falkeisen, and Villa Pliniana, signed Louis Cherbuin.

    Place: BellagioStory: The lake's first photographers

    An 1840 lithograph made from a daguerreotype: Bellagio seen from the lake, with houses on the shore, the bell tower and a rowing boat in the foreground.