{"id":622,"date":"2026-02-10T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/?page_id=622"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:19:41","slug":"monguzzo2012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/travel\/monguzzo2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Monguzzo, 25 April 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"fotka1\"><\/a>In&nbsp;the province of&nbsp;Como there is&nbsp;a&nbsp;village called Monguzzo. Its only truly interesting feature is&nbsp;the 10th-century castle: genuinely beautiful.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/travelfoto\/monguzzo2012\/monguzzo1.jpg\" title=\"Monguzzo Castle\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\n<a name=\"fotka2\"><\/a>Unfortunately, its beauty can only be&nbsp;admired from the outside: the castle is&nbsp;closed to&nbsp;the public. (Like all the most interesting buildings in&nbsp;the world, I&nbsp;might add in&nbsp;brackets.) So&nbsp;as&nbsp;soon as&nbsp;you hear about an&nbsp;extraordinary opening, drop everything and go&nbsp;and see&nbsp;it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/travelfoto\/monguzzo2012\/monguzzo2.jpg\" title=\"Monguzzo Castle\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\n<a name=\"fotka3\"><\/a>I&nbsp;did not know, however, that among the Church&rsquo;s properties there were also buildings of&nbsp;this kind. If&nbsp;they do&nbsp;not let&nbsp;us see them, at&nbsp;least they should pay double the IMU tax&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/travelfoto\/monguzzo2012\/monguzzo3.jpg\" title=\"Monguzzo Castle\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\n<a name=\"fotka4\"><\/a>The presence of&nbsp;the Star of&nbsp;David above the cross then made me&nbsp;realise that&nbsp;I still have a&nbsp;great deal to&nbsp;discover about the Catholic Church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/travelfoto\/monguzzo2012\/monguzzo4.jpg\" title=\"Monguzzo Castle\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nThe time available and the weather conditions did not allow me&nbsp;to&nbsp;explore the rest of&nbsp;this Brianza municipality, so&nbsp;I will conclude this short account here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photographic account of a tourist visit to Monguzzo on 25 April 2012. My assessment of the place: if you are in the area, you may as well stop by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":206,"menu_order":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-622","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}