Corenno Plinio
Fortified medieval hamlet on a lakeside spur, with family tombs displayed openly in its square.
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This guide to Corenno Plinio on Lake Como follows the Andreani, feudal counts loyal to Milan's Visconti lords, who began cutting stone for a fortress here in the thirteen sixties. It explains why their family tombs sit as open-air sarcophagi in the village square rather than hidden inside the church, and what that display was meant to tell everyone who passed through on the Sentiero del Viandante trade road below the castle's two towers. It also stops at the church tower dedicated to Thomas Becket, an English archbishop murdered two centuries earlier, and asks why his cult ended up honored here too. Run a hand along the cold columns beneath the tombs before you move on.
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