Ronco Dell'Abate

It was in the 1960’s when Gianfranco Miglio, head of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Catholic University of Milan, then Senator of the Republic, decided to build a large house on top of the hill overlooking the southern part of Como. He wanted this building, inspired by the style of the Lombard farmhouse, to accommodate his loved ones, some dozen of thousands of rare books he had been collecting for years, and the wines produced in his farms located on the far north of Lake Como. The idea was that all this could be located in refined tasteful environments, lying in the middle of an isolated garden full of botanical species. This place took the name of Ronco dell’Abate. Infact, from some historical testimonies, it seemed that the vineyard of the Abbot of Como was there in the terracing of that hill, whose footprint remains in some vineyards and an orchard, that the owner wanted to reproduce in memory of the original placement.