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Como Lake Panoramic
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The first settlements in Dorio date back to long ago. The Celtic
presence is shown in the domed structured masses, the most important
of them being those of Comballo. With respect to the name of
Dorio, not all of the versions agree. Some believe that the
name derives from the fact that the sun, reaching the sunset,
shines through the mountains with reflects that seem pure golden,
or "dorato" in Italian. A more plausible hypothesis
attributes instead the name to Greek origin. It seems that in
the year 59 AD Julius Ceaser had invited 500 noble colonist
from Greater Greece to repopulate the shores of Lario. Carlo
Andreani writes in "La Pieve di Dervio" printed in
1898: "One tradition celebrates how the people in the beginning
went to Mondonico, as was read from an old document, where they
found a dozen houses. The best position, the closest to the
lake, or perhaps the rapid increase in the population, pushed
some inhabitants to form a new center that slowly absorbed those
of the original one. In the second half of the 15th century
Dorio ceased to be part of Dervio (the neighboring town), and
became a entity onto itself with its own administration. If
one reads a document recovered from the parochial archives:
"The autocratic character of the population of Dorio has
made that it indeed has become a comune. This was no more than
the beginning, the independence had to be complete".
In fact the building of the parish followed. The ancient small
church of S. Giorgio di Mondonico that represents one of the
assets of highest artistic value in Dorio, was for many years
the parochial one for the town. For various reasons the mayor
and people of Dorio requested of the Archbishop of Milan their
own priest.
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