ABOUT LEZZENO

History & Tradition

“The Lezzenesi have always pretended to be part of a separatist republic to avoid being a melting pot. There is the legend that they descend from the Greeks (it is true, however that Julius Caesar brought a small colony on the banks of Lake Como), they are definitely great grandchildren of peasant witches, in the recent past they have assuredly been bootleggers. Like Ulysses, the witches and the bootleggers, they are discreet and rebellious, adventurous and curious, unfriendly and stiffy hospitable, sullen and prankers, undisciplined and unruly.”