Bellagio and its history

It was between the 7th and the 5th century B.C. that on the promontory of Bellagio was built a first human settlement by the Insubres, a Celt tribe coming from North, who settled on the territory of Como, as well as in the rest of Lombardy.
The historian Tito Livio affirms that they also founded the town of Mediolanum (Milan).
Then from beyond the Alps come the Gaul, led by Bellloveso  and spread all over the region at south of the Alps, reaching the shores of the lakes, included lake Larius where they founded Bellasium, building a garrison on the extreme point of the peninsula.

It was the 225 BC, when the Romans, led by Marcus Claudius Marcellus, defeated the Gallo-Insubres in a fierce battle near Camerlata (south of Como), occupying Como town together with the shores of the lake. Anyway, it was only in 80 BC. That Bellagio became a Roman province. The name they gave to the place was Belacius or Bislacus, which suggest that the nowadays name of Bellagio was originally Bi-lacus or two lakes, which rightly describe the village location.