The mistake, a sort of inevitable state of mind also induced by embracing the least unlikely reason for the name – adjective, apostrophe and noun, therefore bell’agio –, is that of falling asleep while awake. Place of peace and harmony Bellagio it is, thank you very much, a minute and at the same time varied place given that in the past/present, for example, Francesco Melzi d’Eril and Zsà Zsà Gabor merge; and yet, human comedy always commands upstream of every geography, and since in these elections the mayors are chosen and the mayors must solve problems not take compliments, well, the question of profiteers weighs heavily. That is, those who, especially from Malpensa airport, but also from Milan Central Station, invent taxi drivers (illegal) to guarantee the accompaniment of foreign tourists to Bellagio for obscene fees. Also three hundred euros (agree, it takes an hour and a half but for the usual disaster of a nineteenth-century road network).
After that, to the same ones elections the victory of the outgoing mayor Angelo Barindelli seems to be a foregone conclusion, aged 63, doctor. For the people he is enough and advances, finding himself in agreement with the person concerned on the time lost due to the pandemic because otherwise how many projects would have been realized… No way: the challenger Umberto Gilardoni, a 59-year-old architectin the electoral program he insisted on a central concept (as well as on the gaze to be turned towards the landscape with the care of the mountain paths and in general a manifest love for nature): the sharing of choices with the citizens who up to now have not would have happened.
The news tells us about Barindelli’s past statements with a burst of preferences, the people of the lake are not inclined to revolutions, the traders will tend to confirm it, the residents who have houses to rent as well, and the chronic ailments linked to a Navigation service that would like to be better but never becomes so, well, they are part of the context of the entire lake. Sure, but Gilardoni seems to have formed a strategic alliance in recent weeks. As usual, we’ll see. However, without, in the sense of perception of the residents, excessive agitation regarding the dispute.
Furthermore, in the soul of someone from Bellagio, there is the conviction of being unique regardless and in no way comparable with the others, those on the coast that rises from Cernobbio; the reference is to obsessive search for so-called VIPs, actors and influencers and the likewhere Melzi d’Eril lived (and was buried) in Bellagio, he and his magnificent villa with works by Canova, then the actress Zsà Zsà stayed for a long time, in the Bella Epoque season there were three theatres, and in the nineteenth century there was already electric light in the Genazzini, Grande Bretagne and Grand Hotel Bellagio hotels; places about which the village rumors tell of crazy clandestine loves and colossal passions (never discovered) from rotogravure, about which however, in respect of the existential philosophy of the residents themselves and also, above all, due to the electoral silence, the mystery will remain. Maybe next time.
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