Talk:Bellagio, Lombardy

Nearby airports
Milan and Bergamo are listed ... but what about Lugano? 1 hr bus (from Lugano bus depot) to Menaggio + ferry. Stumps (talk) 08:59, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

This has been fixed. Erictimewell (talk) 04:57, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Pro none' see ay' shun
Will someone who knows the drill please add the pronunciation of standard Italian? Thanks! Tapered (talk) 00:34, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. Erictimewell (talk) 10:31, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Getting this entry nearer to Wikipedia standard
Until recently this article has been bad hotel-history in bad English. Initially I brought over material from the Italian entry, which far surpassed it, and updated the links. There is still precious little on Bellagio's history from the Sforzas to Napoleon, and nothing whatever on the twentieth century, no doubt because of the suppressed importance of the Fascist period in northern Italy. I have started to introduce some artists' responses to Bellagio, starting with Liszt and heading towards Marinetti. Whoever would have thought they found Bellagio wonderful? Erictimewell (talk) 04:46, 7 June 2015 (UTC) It is now fairly readable and the blurry references have been clarified. The links are some help, but it still needs many reliable references. Erictimewell (talk) 07:31, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

So far so good, but the treatment of Bellagio in the twentieth century is pathetic to the point of dishonesty. Erictimewell (talk) 23:45, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

I see there has been inserted a long subsection outlining the supposed history of the Villa Serbelloni. To a large extent it duplicates material from the previous section. It is also a fine example of the semi-literate hotel puffery that I removed seven years ago. Significantly it gives no references for any of its historical claims. Not up to Wikipedia standard. Erictimewell (talk) 07:32, 25 November 2022 (UTC) I've deleted the entire subsection and, with it, two conspicuously self-signed and gaudy drone photos.Erictimewell (talk) 23:28, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Roman Bellagio
The article claimed the Gallo-Insubres were defeated by Marcus Claudius Marcellus in 196 BC, when he was long dead. I've corrected the date and integrated it with Marcus's own Wikipedia entry. Erictimewell (talk) 02:14, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

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Twin towns section
Isn't this whole section a deadening addition to the article's informativeness? Surely it would be better having its own status as an article to be read by those who like that sort of thing. Erictimewell (talk) 23:32, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Bellagio in the 20th century
This section is waiting to be born. Does anyone believe nothing happened in Bellagio during the Fascist period or during the post-war boom? What about the vast increase in international tourism of the last fifty years? The article needs such material to escape being a brochure for hotels left over from the nineteenth century. Erictimewell (talk) 23:42, 25 November 2022 (UTC) I have made a tiny start to achieving this. Erictimewell (talk) 02:16, 27 November 2022 (UTC)