Fiumelatte is a waterway in northern Italy. It streams from a hole in the Grigna into Lake Como, only south of Varenna, it has a rough length of 250 m (820 ft). The name Fiumelatte, made from fiume (Italian for "stream") and latte ("milk"), is because of the smooth white shade of its water. One of the waterway's quirks is its yearly irregularity: it for the most part dries amidst October to return in the second 50% of March; in this way it has been given the handle Fiume delle due Madonne ("River of the two Madonnas"), suggesting the merriments of Annunciation (March 25) and Madonna del Rosario (October 7). This wonder could suggest that the waterway is the vent of an unexplored underground hole in the Grigna, which gets intermittently filled.
The waterway is specified by the name Fiumelaccio in Leonardo da Vinci's Atlantic Codex:
It's the Fiumelaccio, which falls high from more than 100 ells from the vein where it is conceived, straight down on the lake, with boundless turmoil and clamor.
The waterway is specified by the name Fiumelaccio in Leonardo da Vinci's Atlantic Codex:
It's the Fiumelaccio, which falls high from more than 100 ells from the vein where it is conceived, straight down on the lake, with boundless turmoil and clamor.
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