This changed in the 19th Century to cooks going to Tuscany.
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Between 1889-93, the main road was built, followed in 1923 by a station on the Locarno-Domodossola railway line.
The Melezzo Orientale (known in the Swiss part of its course as the Melezza), a tributary of the Maggia which flows eastwards through the Val Vigezzo in Italy and the Centovalli in Switzerland