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 stone of the lake'All dates
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Antiquity
To the 5th century · 1 date
2nd or 3rd century
The Romans use Musso marble
The sixteen columns of San Lorenzo in Milan, about seven and a half metres tall and taken from Roman buildings of those centuries, are of white Musso marble. The main quarries were on the spur where the Medeghino's castle later stood.
Middle Ages
6th century to 1449 · 1 date
The comballo, the lake's cargo boat
The comballo already appears in a document that forbids the boatmen of Lake Como to go into partnership with one another. Twenty to thirty metres long, flat-bottomed and with a single square sail, it carries Moltrasio stone, sand, lime and wood for the kilns.
Renaissance and foreign rule
1450–1699 · 1 date
1457–1486
The façade of Como Cathedral
From 1452 the cathedral works use white marble from Musso, which becomes their main material. The façade, begun in 1457, is completed in 1486 with the rose window.
