[5] The craggy and often fog hidden mountains are from the Cretaceous period, composed of limestone sediment weathered by millennia.

Among many events which occur in the town every summer, the Menaggio Guitar Festival[6] is relevant on an international scale.

Guitarists who have played there since its first edition on 2005 include Pete Huttlinger, Martin Taylor, Franco Cerri, Roman Bunka, Solorazaf and Ferenc Snetberger.

Marga Boodts a woman who claimed to be Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia resided in Menaggio from 1943 to her death in 1976.

She was frequently visited by her “sister” Ceclava Czapska and her memoirs were published in Spain in 2012, with the help of an American historian named Marie Stravlo.