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Minusio hotels - About Minusio
Coordinates: 46°11′N 8°49′E / 46.183, 8.817 (Minusio)
Minusio is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
It was here that Giovanni Antonio Marcacci (1769-1854) built La Baronata as a summer house. The building was bought by Mikhail Bakunin in 1873 with money he obtained from Carlo Cafiero. They planned that possession of the building would give Bakunin the status of a land-owner, helping him gain Swiss citizenship, and to provide premises for storing arms and providing accommodation in aid of the anarchist international. A second building was erected, a lake dug and a number of fruit trees planted. With the addition of a cow, a carriage and two horses, a milkmaid and a groom were employed. When Bakunin's wife, Antonia Kwiatkowska, was on her way there in July 1874, her lover, Carlo Gambuzzi informed her that the house had been bought through the abuse of Cafiero's generosity. On her arrival, Bakunin originally denied this and at first persuaded Cafiero to agree. However, on reflection, Cafiero told Bakunin on 15 July that he had indeed abused their friendship and that he would not spend any more money, thought or energy on La Baronata, rather devoting the fraction left of his inheritance on buying weapons for the proposed revolution in Italy. "The days following the 15th were a veritable hell" Bakunin later wrote. On 25 July Bakunin signed over the deeds of the building to Cafiero and resolved to die on the barricades in Bologna.
Following a career as a revolutionary anarchist, Cafiero suffered a mental breakdown whilst in prison in Italy in 1882. He returned briefly to La Baronata, but went back to Italy once again in 1883.
Ascona | Borgnone | Brione (Verzasca) | Brione sopra Minusio | Brissago | Caviano | Cavigliano | Contone | Corippo | Cugnasco | Frasco | Gerra (Gambarogno) | Gerra (Verzasca) | Gordola | Gresso | Indemini | Intragna | Isorno | Lavertezzo | Locarno | Losone | Magadino | Mergoscia | Minusio | Mosogno | Muralto | Onsernone | Orselina | Palagnedra | Piazzogna | Ronco sopra Ascona | San Nazzaro | Sant'Abbondio | Sonogno | Tegna | Tenero-Contra | Vergeletto | Verscio | Vira (Gambarogno) | Vogorno
Ticino | Districts of Canton Ticino | Municipalities of the canton of Ticino
Source: CIA Factbook, Wikipedia
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