Where a count promised Las Vegas to Brianza, and the mountain answered with a landslide.
“Welcome, wanderer. I am the Guardian of Toyland. For decades I have kept the barrier and nobody has ever come to relieve me.”The Guardian of Toyland
What the narrator asks you. The answer, and the true fact behind it, is for you to find on the spot.
The game began here. A barrier separated the ordinary world from the land of toys, and I still look at it like a doorman who never retires. You, wanderer, have just crossed the threshold of the fairy tale.
He called himself Grand Officer and Count. But who was the man who really dreamed all this? Look for the gate like a medieval castle's: that is where the curtain rises.
Cardinal Borromeo passed through with his thirst for reform, and the church still bears his signature. In Olginate dates matter: remember them, and you will be a century ahead.
Before the Count, before Rome even fell, there was another fortress up here. Monte Barro keeps a “Great Building” that knows nothing about toys and everything about history.