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Posted - 01/04/2008 : 22:57:41
A lake favored by royalty from Rome to Hollywood
By John Powers
Globe Staff / March 30, 2008
COMO - It wasn't as if nobody ever came here before George Clooney bought a couple of lakeside villas for eight figures. Julius Caesar founded the city of Como (as Novum Comum) in 59 B.C., and in the first century A.D., Pliny the Elder had a spread in Bellagio, on what the locals call Lago di Como.
COMO - It wasn't as if nobody ever came here before George Clooney bought a couple of lakeside villas for eight figures. Julius Caesar founded the city of Como (as Novum Comum) in 59 B.C., and in the first century A.D., Pliny the Elder had a spread in Bellagio, on what the locals call Lago di Como.
Full text at
http://www.boston.com/travel/getaways/europe/scriptrticles/2008/03/30/script_lake_favored_by_royalty_from_rome_to_hollywood/
where you can find some suggestions on where to go and what to see.
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silvia
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