Dongo

Dongo is a comune within the Province of Como inside the Italian region Lombardy. It lies at the northwestern shore of Lake Como among Gravedona and Musso at the mouth of the Albano. It is 70 kilometres north of Milan and approximately 40 kilometres northeast of Como. It changed into in Dongo, on 27 April 1945, that Benito Mussolini and different fascists, fleeing from Milan in the direction of Valtellina, had been captured by Urbano Lazzaro and different partisans. Dongo borders the subsequent municipalities: Colico, Consiglio di Rumo, Garzeno, Germasino, Musso, Pianello del Lario, Stazzona.

The Palazzo del Vescovo changed into erected within the 17th century by the own family of the Marquis Cossoni. In 1854, Carlo Romano, the Bishop of Como, acquired the constructing from the Cossoni family. In 1983, the Town of Dongo bought the constructing. The residents of Dongo, assisted financially by means of the Comunita Montana Alto Lario Occidentale, initiated the entire recovery of the Palazzo rapidly thereafter. Still bearing its authentic name, the building currently homes the Civic Institute of Music "Alto Lario", and, when you consider that December 2003, the International Piano Academy Lake Como.