Fiumelatte is a waterway in northern Italy. It streams from a depression in the Grigna into Lake Como, only south of Varenna, it has a rough length of 250 m (820 ft). The name Fiumelatte, formed from fiume (Italian for "waterway") and latte ("milk"), is because of the smooth white shade of its water. One of the stream's eccentricities is its yearly discontinuity: it as a rule dries amidst October to return in the second 50% of March; in this manner it has been given the handle Fiume delle due Madonne ("River of the two Madonnas"), insinuating the celebrations of Annunciation (March 25) and Madonna del Rosario (October 7). This wonder could suggest that the waterway is the vent of an unexplored underground pit in the Grigna, which gets occasionally filled.
The waterway is said 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 hubbub and commotion.
The waterway is said 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 hubbub and commotion.
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