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Bo Peabody
Joined: 25 Aug 2005
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 Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:39 am Post subject: Lake Como / Lake Maggiore |
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So beautiful, it inspired George Lucas to do those sterile CGI planets in the Star Wars prequels. Apparently an exclusive resort hangout for rich entertainment types.
Anyone been to? Was it pricy? |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:37 am Post subject: |
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I've been to Locarno on Lake Maggiore, it's between Italy and Switzerland. The area is called Ticino (also a university). It's where the 10% of Swiss who speak Italian live. Yeah, stunningly beautiful. Good pizza. I was there ages ago, yeah, it was expensive then.
There was a failed peace treaty guaranteeing European borders signed there in 1925, the Locarno Treaty.
It's also the lake that Hemingway's hero uses to escape from WWI into neutral Switzerland in a stolen rowboat with a British nurse in his semi-autobiographical "A Farewell to Arms." |
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kiwigirl :O)
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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i love those scenes by the lake ...they have the same location in oceans twelve at the end when they are at the french guys italian villa on lake como....
i desparately want to go there too...absolutely beautiful |
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