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« on: June 09, 2008, 04:09:41 am »

January 26, 2008
::: Gigantic Concentric Circles Found in Italy

Last July 2007 an excavation for a new hospital Sant'Anna near Como Italy uncovered a "double concentric circle of ancient stones".  It may date back to 3000 BCE and "the site is a "highly articulated prehistoric structure that could be either an ancient astronomical observatory or a sacred space," according to Stefania Iorio, Archaeological Superintendent of the region."  The diameter of the circles is around 229 feet and they are divided by a pathway of paved stones. 

The site is a rare site with no similar examples in Northern Italy. Giancarlo Frigerio, chairman of the Società Archeologica Comense theorizes that it may be an ancient tumulus.  What makes this tumulus so unusual is size since it covers an area of approximately 13,000 feet, over 2 miles, while other tumuluses found in the same region average a diameter of 13-16 feet. Tumulus is Latin for mound or small hill that was typically a man-made, mound formation erected over a grave site.

There are now plans to protect the area and create a park where visitors can access the site.

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LAKE COMO

NORTHERN ITALY


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CITY OF COMO
On the lake by the same name







                                                             HISTORY  OF  COMO





The hills surrounding the current location of Como were inhabited in prehistoric times, at least since the Bronze Age. Remains of settlements are still present on the wood covered hills to the South West of town. The people that inhabited these settlements were known as the Orobii, a Celtic tribe.

Around the 1st century BC the territory became subjected to the Romans. The first center was situated on the nearby hills, but it was then moved to its current location by order of Julius Caesar, who had the swamp near the southern tip of the lake drained and laid the plan of the walled city in the typical grid of perpendicular streets. The newly founded town was named Novum Comum and had the status of municipium.

In 774 the town surrendered to the invasion of the Franks led by Charlemagne, and it became a center of commercial exchange.
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