At Villa Del Balbianello, the meeting organised by the Region, with the Italian National Trust, to take stock of tourism in Lombardy and in the Larian Triangle, in particular, on the eve of the start of the tourist season.
Saturday 20 November saw the presentation of “Extraordinary lives, art and stories told by the monuments, ‘in memory of’ Varese Province”, a fine book written on this topic by Gian Franco Ferrario.
Not a single local farmer is able to teach how to use our grandparents’ sickle any more: they all have strimmers, which, with their two-stroke engines, pollute as much as 100 cars. But there are some who suggest going back to the old days.