Corrido

Corrido has no coat of arms. The comune has never adopted an official one, and the proposed device — azure, a silver bend between two stars — is copied from a plaque fixed to the front of the town hall. Its boundaries, for that matter, have always been changed from outside: it belonged to the pieve of Porlezza under the Duchy of Milan, was then put into the province of Como and in 1791 moved back to Milan's; in 1812 Napoleon enlarged it with Buggiolo and Seghebbia, and the population went from three hundred and fifty-six to four hundred and eighty-four; when Napoleon fell the aggregation was revoked and the village went back to what it had been.

On the ground, though, things stay put. On a rock spur above the Cuccio torrent stands the church of Santi Materno e Martino, a parish since 1587 and the rebuilding of a church already recorded in the thirteenth century, with baroque altar frontals in coloured scagliola by the Magistri intelvesi. On the road to Carlazzo the Saltone bridge crosses a gorge where the torrent falls and digs out a deep pool; a little below it lie the remains of the older stone bridge, which collapsed. And the path that climbs to Buggiolo is called the Partisan's Path: it remembers Umberto Guaino, twenty-one years old, shot there by the fascists in 1945, and an iron cross marks the place. Along the climb there are the clearings where the charcoal burners built their puiatt, an old lime kiln, and a small stone furnace, the furnas di rogn, made for burning processionary moth nests.