We have written about the hamlet of Loco, situated in the Valley Onsernone, when we spoke about astronaut Walter Schira whose family roots were from there. Today, we would like to describe once again this beautiful valley in order to introduce one of the most wonderful and scenic walks that
One of the less described chapters related to the military history of the Insubrica region is the mercenary service of Ticino people carried out in behalf of other military powers. Insubrica Historica has already written about Generals Mainoni, Remonda and soon will about Andrea Brilli an officer in Russian service,
Our presentation on Saturday 12 May 2018, at Spalavera Bookshop in Pallanza, attracted interest of a major regional Italian newspaper. La Stampa Verbania Cusio Ossola presented in its Tuesday edition a long article in Italian that IH has translated in English for our readers. La Stampa, Italy The name of the Nazi soldier
The most striking feature of Soviet General Military Staff maps for a Western European person is that all places and rivers are written in Cyrillic letters. It isn’t surprising that familiar appellations look suddenly so different on Soviet maps. Many designations, especially those related to Swiss German locations, were transliterated
Insubrica Historica would like to present a tool that is widely used in order to sustain our own research and writing efforts. This tool is a web platform: www.geo.admin.ch. This website is the official GIS information platform of the Swiss Confederation, and it is one of the most awarded and
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