Vertemate con Minoprio (
Comasco
Comasco or Comasque is a dialect of Western Lombard language spoken in the city and suburbs of Como. It belongs to the Comasco-Lecchese group.
Characteristics
It shares similarities with Milanese, but more precisely consists of a transiti ...
: ) is a ''
comune
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'' (municipality) in the
Province of Como
The Province of Como ( it, Provincia di Como; german: Provinz Como; Comasco: ) is a province in the north of the Lombardy region of Italy and borders the Swiss cantons of Ticino and Grigioni to the North, the Italian provinces of Sondrio and ...
in the Italian region
Lombardy, about north of
Milan
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and about south of
Como
Como (, ; lmo, Còmm, label=Comasco , or ; lat, Novum Comum; rm, Com; french: Côme) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy. It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como.
Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps has m ...
.
Main sights
*Abbey of San Giovanni a Vertemate, consecrated in 1096. The
Romanesque church, with a nave and two aisles, is home to traces of frescoes from the 14th and 15th centuries.
*Castle
*Villa Raimondi
Notable residents
*
Simone Tomassini, Italian
singer-songwriter
A singer-songwriter is a musician who writes, composes, and performs their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies. In the United States, the category is built on the folk-acoustic tradition, although this role has transmuted ...
was born in Vertemate con Minoprio in 1974.
[Fegiz, Mario Luzzatto]
Simone: «Un incidente ha cambiato la mia vita»
''Corriere della Sera
The ''Corriere della Sera'' (; en, "Evening Courier") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average daily circulation of 410,242 copies in December 2015.
First published on 5 March 1876, ''Corriere della Sera'' is one of I ...
'', March 2004
References
External links
Official website
Cities and towns in Lombardy
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