Municipality of Dongo
Latitude: 46° 8' N |
Longitude: 9° 17' E |
Altitude: 205 m s.l.m. |
Inhabitants: 3.500 |
Dongo is situated in the north-western part of the lake of Como, between Musso and Gravedona, its center inhabited parts from the fraction of Martinico until the lake, crossed by the stream Albano. Anciently it developed industrially through the workmanship of the iron, thanks to the pass of Sant'Jorio, at 2000 ms of quota, that allowed the exchanges of the the commodities with Switzerland. Currently Dongo remains an important tourist-industrial center. Interesting the church of Saint Maria in Martinico, of the XI century, the Sanctuary Madonna of the Tears of the '500, the Romanesque church of Saint Stefano and Palazzo Manzi, actual center of the Town hall.
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