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Si prosegue per circa 100 metri, lasciandosi sulla sinistra la pensilina della fermata dell’autobus C10 (Como-Menaggio-Colico), C17 (Dongo-Garzeno), C18 (Dongo-Livo), C19 (Pianello-Morbegno-Sondrio) e si giunge all’ingresso del convento francescano di Santa Maria delle Lacrime, fatto costruire agli inizi del secolo XVII dai Frati Minori Riformati e noto soprattutto per la sua preziosa biblioteca.
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. It is advisable to keep to the left. After about 20 metres from the start of the sidewalk, on the right you will find a small parking area with six pebble dash concrete benches, a fountain placed in a niche in the wall with the date 1927 and a telephone booth. Immediately after, you come across a flowerbed with a boulder stone with the emblem of Arromanches-les-Bains, in Normandy, to commemorate ten years (1998-2008) of the twinning between Dongo and the French town. The twinning came about because of the historical affinity between the two villages: in Dongo, the arrest of Mussolini marked the end of fascism and of the war; the coast near Arromanches saw the historic landing of the Allied troops in Normandy on June 6th, 1944. Again while bordering the flower bed, past two pebble dash concrete benches, you will be able to see a large coloured gravel reproduction of the City of Dongo’s coat of arms (2 x 2 metres approximately) on the green. At the end of the flower bed, while still on the sidewalk, turn right, moving next to and bordering the friary wall (please mind the two benches at the beginning of the stretch after the flowerbed). Continue for about 100 metres, leaving the bus shelter to your left – the C10 (Como-Menaggio-Colico), C17 (Dongo-Garzeno), C18 (Dongo-Livo), and C19 (Pianello-Morbegno-Sondrio) lines stop here -, and come to the entrance of the Franciscan friary of Our Lady of Tears, built in the early part of the seventeenth century by the Reformed Friars Minor and renowned above all for its valuable library. The entrance to the friary, surmounted by a marble tondo with the IHS Christological monogram created by Saint Bernardine of Siena (he, too, a Franciscan), is preceded by a single arch portico.
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