Domaso
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Domaso is a comune
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) in the Province of Como
Province of Como
The Province of Como is a province in the north of the Lombardy region of Italy and borders the Swiss cantons of Ticino and Grigioni to the North, the Italian provinces of Sondrio and Lecco to the East, the Province of Milan to the south and the Province of Varese to the West...

 in the Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 region Lombardy
Lombardy
Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...

, located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

 and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northeast of Como
Como
Como is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy.It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como....

. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,461 and an area of 6.1 km².

Domaso borders the following municipalities: Colico
Colico
Colico is a comune in the province of Lecco, Lombardy, Italy. It is situated near the tip of the northern arm of Lake Como, where the river Adda enters the lake...

, Gravedona
Gravedona
Gravedona ed Uniti is a comune in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about north of Milan and about northeast of Como....

, Livo
Livo (CO)
Livo is a comune in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about north of Milan and about northeast of Como, on the border with Switzerland. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 212 and an area of 32.5 km².Livo borders the following municipalities: Cama ,...

, Peglio
Peglio (CO)
Peglio is a comune in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 80 km north of Milan and about 40 km northeast of Como. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 209 and an area of 10.8 km²....

, Vercana
Vercana
Vercana is a comune in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 80 km north of Milan and about 45 km northeast of Como. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 729 and an area of 14.6 km²....

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Demographic evolution

At the CARIPLO Bank of Domaso were kept the secret documents taken from Benito Mussolini on 27 April 1945. They were put there by the Partisan Pedro and Horfman a Swiss/British double agent. Winston Churchill visited this place, looking for some of the missing documents on September 7, 1945 and went to have a tea with the bank's manager Ermanno Gibezzi. He had it in his home, ignoring the fact that he had been recently appointed there. The real director that had seen the documents, Luigi Rumi, had retired a few weeks before.

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