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{{Infobox frazione
| name                  = Giulino
| native_name           =
| image_skyline         = Chiesa Parrochia di Sant'Abbondio, Giulino, seen from Lake Como.jpg
| image_caption         = View from the lake
| coordinates           = {{coord|45|58|57|N|09|12|22|E|type:city|display=inline,title}}
| region                = {{flag|Lombardy}}
| province              = [[Province of Como|Como]] (CO)
| comune                = [[Tremezzina]]
| elevation_footnotes   =
| elevation_m           = 250
| area_footnotes        =
| area_total_km2        =
| population_footnotes  = 
| population_total      = 50
| population_as_of      = 2005
| pop_density_footnotes =
| gentilic              = Giulinesi
| saint                 =
| day                   =
| postal_code           = 22010
| area_code             = 0344
| website               =
| footnotes             =
}}
'''Giulino''' (also known as '''Giulino di Mezzegra''') is an Italian ''[[frazione]]'' of the ''[[Comune]]'' of [[Mezzegra]], in the province of [[Province of Como|Como]]. Since 21 January 2014, both Giulino and Mezzegra are included in the comune of [[Tremezzina]].

==History==
===Early history===
The village was an autonomous municipality until 1928, when it merged into Mezzegra becoming its ''[[frazione]]'' (civil parish).

===Death of Mussolini===
[[File:Cross mezzegra.jpg|thumb|left|Memorial cross at Mussolini's death place]]
{{Main|Death of Benito Mussolini}}
The village is the place where [[Benito Mussolini]] and his lover [[Claretta Petacci]] were executed on 28 April 1945, in front of a manor house named ''Villa Belmonte''. The execution was carried out on the orders of the National Liberation Committee by Walter Audisio, a Communist partisan, after Mussolini was captured in [[Dongo, Lombardy|Dongo]] (often erroneously considered to be the place where the execution took place).<ref>[http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/villa-belmonte-mussolini-death-place/ "Villa Belmonte - Mussolini death place" (virtualglobetrotting.com)]</ref>

==Geography==
Giulino, part of the [[Intelvi]] geographical region, lies on the hills close to the north-western shore of the [[Lake Como]]. It is 2&nbsp;km from [[Mezzegra]], 30 from [[Como]] and 40 from [[Lugano]] (in [[Switzerland]]).

==Literature==
*Bruno Giovanni Lonati : "''Quel 28 aprile. Mussolini e Claretta: la verità''". Mursia, 1994. {{ISBN|88-425-1761-5}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Google maps|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mezzegra+CO,+Italy/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x478423252ed00f4b:0xe85e37596ce865d2?sa=X&ei=BuY7VZD1G8buUOaEgfAC&ved=0CIsBEPIBMA0|title=Mezzegra}}

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[[Category:Former municipalities of the Province of Como]]
[[Category:Frazioni of the Province of Como]]
[[Category:Benito Mussolini]]
[[Category:Tremezzina]]