Blevio ( Comasco : Biev [ˈbjeːf] ) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy , located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Milan and about 2 kilometres (1 mi) northeast of Como . It overlooks the eastern shore of Lake Como from hilly slopes starting at more than 200 metres (660 ft).
7-443: Blevio borders the following municipalities: Brunate , Cernobbio , Como , Moltrasio , Torno . The comune of Blevio includes seven villages, the so-called "the seven cities" (Capovico, Cazzanore, Girola, Maggianico, Mezzovico, Sopravilla, Sorto), the most important of which was Capovico, the closest one to Lake Como. The municipal territory extends from 200 to 1,140 metres (660 to 3,740 ft) above sea level. The etymology of
14-557: A fief of the Tanzi patrician family, whose wealth was based on the silk industry. Count Antonio von Tanzi Blevio, who had been ennobled by the Habsburgs due to his banking activity, built a large villa on the rocks of Perlasca, now part of the neighbouring town of Torno . In 1798, the villa and the village became a possession of the Taverna and Borromeo families, two of the most affluent families of
21-509: A spectacular villa nearby. Blevio joined the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1859 and later the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, following the conquest of the Piedmontese army of Lombardy. Its numerous lakefront villas host a number of Italian and international celebrities, including singers, actors and athletes. Brunate Brunate ( Comasco : Brunaa [bryˈnaː] ) is a town and comune in
28-420: The province of Como in northern Italy , some 50 kilometres (31 mi) northeast of Milan . It has some 1,800 residents, but is much more populated in summer, when tourists rent houses and apartments . The town overlooks Como, which lies on the shore of Lake Como some 500 metres (1,600 ft) below. For a short time in the late 12th century Brunate was an independent commune , but in 1240 it reverted to
35-607: The suzerainty of Como . Como and Brunate are linked by a steep, narrow, winding road, and by the Como to Brunate funicular . Alessandro Volta lived in Brunate for a short period – the Faro Voltiano lighthouse in the San Maurizio district, was built and named in his honour. The Bulgarian poet Pencho Slaveykov died in the town on 10 June 1912. This article on a location in
42-618: The Milanese aristocracy, before being created as a free town after the Napoleonic invasion of Italy . A minor branch of the same family, who received the title of Edler von Tanzi by the Habsburgs, continued to keep vast possessions of lands in Blevio and nearby Torno until early 1900. Famous ballerina Marie Taglioni enjoyed her stay in Blevio so much to purchase a romantic lake-front villa (Villa Taglioni) while her lover prince Aleksander Trubetskoy built
49-486: The name of the city could be found in the Celtic Ligurian "Biuelius" (Latin "vivo – alive", Welsh "byw", old Irish "biu – I use to be" and Anglo-Saxon "beo – I am, I become", Indo-Germanic "bheou"). In 1497 the ruler of Milan Ludovico Sforza gave the fief of Blevio, together with some other near villages, to his lover Ludovica Crivelli. In the following centuries, Blevio became closely linked to Como and finally became
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