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7 unusual facts about Viggiù


Antonio Bottinelli

Antonio Bottinelli (Viggiù, September 8, 1827 – Viggiù, September 26, 1898) was an Italian sculptor.

Enrico Butti

He made a monument for the fallen set up in Viggiù in 1919, another for Gallarate (set up in 1924) in Piazza Risorgimento, and finally one in Varese (1925).

Enrico Butti (Viggiù, April 3, 1847 – Viggiù, January 31, 1932) was an Italian sculptor, active mainly in Milan, where he became a professor of the Brera Academy.

Giosuè Argenti

Giosuè Argenti (Viggiù, Province of Como, February 7, 1819 – November 29, 1901) was an Italian sculptor.

Martino Longhi the Elder

He was born in Viggiù into a family of architects, and initially worked in Germany for the Altemps family, who were relatives of the Milanese Borromeo.

Onorio Longhi

Born in Viggiù, Lombardy, Longhi began as assistant for his father, and inherited the latter's commission at his death in 1591.

Viggiù

Sandy Cane, (1961 - ), the first black mayor of Italy elected in June 2009.


Carlo Bellosio

He frescoed bacchantes and Maenads with an Aurora in the grand room of the casa Poreti in Milan; also decorative frescoes for the casa Scotti in Ponte San Pietro, for the casa Casati in Como, for the casa dei Conti Leonardi in Novara, in a Medolago in casa dei conti Medolago in Medolago, for the casa dei conti Borromeo in Viggiù; and Pallanza (now part of Verbania as well as Pavia,


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