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Giulino

Frazione in Lombardy, Italy

Giulino (also known as Giulino di Mezzegra) is an Italian frazione of the Comune of Mezzegra, in the province of Como. Since 21 January 2014, both Giulino and Mezzegra are included in the comune of Tremezzina.

History

Early history

The village was an autonomous municipality until 1928, when it merged into Mezzegra becoming its frazione (civil parish).

Death of Mussolini

Main article: Death of Benito Mussolini

The village is the place where Benito Mussolini and his lover Claretta Petacci were executed on 28 April 1945, in front of a manor house named Villa Belmonte. The execution was carried out on the orders of the National Liberation Committee by Walter Audisio, a Communist partisan, after Mussolini was captured in Dongo (often erroneously considered to be the place where the execution took place).^[1]

Geography

Giulino, part of the Intelvi geographical region, lies on the hills close to the north-western shore of the Lake Como. It is 2 km from Mezzegra, 30 from Como and

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Remembrance Paths: The Tremezzina Battle And The End Of The Tyranny (1944-45)

REMEMBRANCE PATHS:

THE TREMEZZINA BATTLE AND THE END OF THE TYRANNY (1944-45)

An easy walk (about 2 hours) through the Tremezzina territory allows us to live again two pivotal events in the story of Italian Liberation War.

In the site Mezzegra we can find a parking place in the surroundings of the main square, Piazza 28 aprile 1945, whose title introduces the first half of this itinerary: its theme is the end of the tyranny in Italy with Benito Mussolini’s death.

Let’s make a short detour to the State Route towards Tremezzo and see the Hotel Lario, former Hotel Milano: in 1945, April 27, the local Committee for National Liberation took office here. Back to the main square we climb up through the parking lot and the narrow Via del Riale, and find the former De Maria House where Mussolini and his mistress Claretta Petacci spent their last night. Their path to the execution site follows Largo Valle in Bonzanigo hamlet, the road down the slope to the little Chapel of Our Lady of Good Couns

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Falck steelworks in an old vintage picture.

In the field of the project “The End of the War”, financed by Regione Lombardia, Province of Como realised a tourist signposting itinerary in order to give further importance to the Como lake’s territories where fundamental historical facts and WWII’s final chapter took place.

Signposts are organized in four thematic paths; they narrate the events that occurred between September 8^th 1943 – announcement of the armistice – and April 28^th 1945 – shooting of Mussolini and of the fascist ministers.

The main panel is in Palazzo Manzi’s inner courtyard, in Dongo, the ideal starting point of the historical paths. Seven signposts have been placed in Dongo in highly historic and symbolic places: Piazza Paracchini and Palazzo Manzi, the balustrade on the lake, the entrance of former Falck steelworks, the Franciscan sanctuary, the stopover of the “Società Lariana di Navigazione”, S. Gottardo’s church.

The four thematic paths:

A: PATHS TO FREEDOM TOWARDS SWITZERLAND

This series of panels tells of events that revolved around c