On Lake Como, Italy and Belgium are closer

The presence of Queen Mother Paola and the former King of Belgium, Albert II, at the inauguration of a music festival (LacMus from June 28 to July 8) in the region from Tremezzina on Lake Como, could be exhausted occasion tree. This was prevented by the natural simplicity of the illustrious guests and the history of these places, extraordinary for the quality of artistic and cultural stratifications. At the back of Villa Carlotta, surrounded by majestic garden hedges, two Fazioli grand pianos (Louis Lortie and Hélène Mercier) have touched the suggestive Ciajkovskian transcriptions and the elusive parcels of the last Debussy (In black and white) , in addition to the first suite by Rachmaninoff, closed by a sparkling evocation of Russian Easter bells. Carillon that followed the bell of the hour by a nearby church. The guests also admired the temple-museum collected by the former owner on the ground floor (dazzling marbles of Carrara in the statues of Canova, and the friezes of the glory of Alexander the Great by Thorvaldsen) . In this strip of land facing the enchanted peninsula of Bellagio, Italy and Belgium were closer, united by art. It was not forgotten that the island of Comacina was for a year (1919) a belgian enclave and donated by the grandfather of Albert II to Italy, along with the island of Comacina. indication that the Brera Academy ran it to host artists. Everything is held: the best way for the festival that also attracts young musicians from the musical Chapel of the musical queen Elisabetta of Belgium, could not be there.