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Rocca Sforzesca Castle and silk

[Feb. 2024] Soncino, a historic town in Lombardy, northern Italy, is also home to a castle called Rocca Sforzesca Castle. Soncino was under the control of the Duchy of Milan for a long time, but…

Food

meat dish in Solferino

[ Oct.2017 ] I saw a weird photo of a wall with many skulls on a website and found out that it was in a town called Solferino which is not too far from Milan…

Hotels

Stay at Airbnb in Seregno

[Sept. 2021] The town of Seregno in Lombardy, Italy, is about 30 kilometers north of Milan, right in the middle of the towns of Milan and Como. We rented an Airbnb in this town and…

Transports

Something we learned in Como (part 1)

[April 2023] On this Easter Sunday when we were staying in northern Italy, we had no plans at all, but wanted to go somewhere that we could have a good meal nearby, and in the…