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| BELLAGIO’S OWN LITTLE “GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS” |
The highest point: Mount San Primo (1686 m) |
The oldest remains: The erratic masses of the glacial moraines. The most famous one is the “Sasso Lentina” rock at Pra Filippo (10 km from the centre of Bellagio on the road to Mount San Primo) |
Illustrious guests: The first holidaymaker: Pliny the Younger (1st century AD) The first royal ball: held in 1493 to celebrate the wedding between Bianca Maria Sforza, (Lodovico il Moro’s niece) and the Emperor Maximilian I The most famous Italian artist: Leonardo da Vinci The most important prelate: Cardinal Carlo Borromeo The most famous foreign guest: Napoleon Bonaparte American presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
Kings and Emperors: Liutprando King of Longobards, Maximillian I, the Empress of Russia Maria Feodorowna, the Emperors of Austria Franz I, Ferdinand and Franz Joseph, Kaiser Wilhelm, the King of Albania, Leopold I of Belgium, Queen Mary of Rumania, Umberto and Margherita of Savoia (the Italian royal family), King Farouk of Egypt… |
Artists and writers: Giuseppe Parini, Ippolito Pindemonte, Alessandro Manzoni, Alessandro Volta, Tommaso Grossi, Ippolito Nievo, Stendhal, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Liszt, Filippo Tommaso Martinetti… |
Movie stars: Mary Pickford, Douglas Faibanks, Otto Fisher, Maria Schell, Clark Gable, Robert Mitchum, Romy Schneider and Philippe Noiret (who came to film “A Woman at the window”), Al Pacino and Marthe Keller (for Bobby Deerfield), Adriano Celentano, Renato Pozzetto, Alberto Sordi… Many are the films filmed in Bellagio. One of the most recent is the dramatic film “Come due Coccodrilli” with Giancarlo Giannini and F. Bentivoglio, directed by Giacomo Campiotti |