Museo della Fine della Guerra
Multimedia museum in Palazzo Manzi on the last days of the war in Dongo, covering the capture of Mussolini and the Resistance struggle on Lake Como.
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About the museum
Dongo is the village on the upper Lario (Lake Como) where, in April 1945, Benito Mussolini and several leading figures of the Italian Social Republic were stopped and taken to the town hall, Palazzo Manzi, for the formalities of their arrest. A few days earlier the Sala d’Oro, the palace’s main hall, had served as a funeral chamber for local partisans who had fallen, and the building thus became the scene of events that remain in the national memory.
The museum, formerly known as the Museo della Resistenza Comasca, occupies the rooms of Palazzo Manzi itself and recounts its history with a modern display. The route uses artefacts, documents, testimonies, unseen footage and multimedia reconstructions, and invites visitors to follow the events in person: from the Resistance fighting on Lake Como to the capture and execution of the senior officials, the epilogue of the Fascist ventennio.
The visit is designed as an interactive story, in which digital technologies accompany the original objects and allow visitors to approach a controversial and painful page of Italian history.
Key themes
- Based in the historic Palazzo Manzi in Dongo
- Multimedia and interactive display
- Artefacts, documents and testimonies on the end of the war
- Sala d’Oro, used as a funeral chamber for fallen partisans
- Unseen footage and reconstructions of the capture of the senior officials
Permanent exhibition
- Il percorso multimediale sulla fine della guerra – Interactive route with artefacts, documents, testimonies and footage on the last days of the war on Lake Como and the capture of the senior officials.
- Visitors per year
- approx. 13,000
Admission & discounts
| Adults | €5 |
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| Reduced | €3Young people aged 12 to 18 and people over 65 |
| Children & teens | €3free up to age 11 · Young people aged 12 to 18: €3 |
| Seniors | €3Over 65 |
| Visitors with disabilities | freeFree admission for people with disabilities |
Free admission for children up to 11 years old.
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Getting there & parking
By public transit
By train on the Milano Centrale–Tirano line as far as Colico, then by bus; regular C10 bus from Como to Colico; ferries and hydrofoils from Como, Colico, Menaggio, Bellagio and Varenna.
By car from Milan: motorway Milan–Como, exit “Lago di Como”, then north towards Menaggio and Sondrio. From Lecco: SS36 expressway towards Colico, exit Menaggio/Valchiavenna and signs for Menaggio.
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | For information and ticket bookings, you can write to the museum via the form on the website or to the e-mail address given. |
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