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i bei negozi: una tradizione che guarda al futuro - CCIAA di Varese

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outique of fruits and vegetables<br />

during the Sixties. Then, he used<br />

to go at Buzzetti’s shop, where he<br />

person<strong>al</strong>ly chose the precious<br />

stones to give his roy<strong>al</strong> mistresses.<br />

Today, Remo and Luciana Buzzetti,<br />

helped by their son Luigi<br />

and by the daughter-in-law Letizia,<br />

still work in this wonderful<br />

shop with nineteenth-century<br />

furniture and frescoed vaults.<br />

The beauties outside the town<br />

Outside the town there are two<br />

other shops which gained the<br />

Region<strong>al</strong> approv<strong>al</strong>: Borducan<br />

(Sacro Monte) and Veniani confectioner’s<br />

of Gavirate, where in<br />

1878 the so-c<strong>al</strong>led Brutti e Buoni<br />

were invented. The coffee bar<br />

Borducan has an art nouveau<br />

décor and it <strong>al</strong>so represents a refined<br />

hotel. But above <strong>al</strong>l it represents<br />

the stage of a great actor,<br />

that is the elixir invented in 1872<br />

by the Garib<strong>al</strong><strong>di</strong>an Davide Bregonzio.<br />

This liqueur is prepared<br />

from oranges and sweet herbs and<br />

served in a speci<strong>al</strong> bottle with a<br />

carillon work. This coffee bar was<br />

opened in 1924 by Anita Angiolini<br />

Bregonzio. In 1947 she<br />

was succeeded by her son Bruno,<br />

who was immort<strong>al</strong>ized by Franco<br />

Pontiggia in a wonderful image<br />

on the cover of his book “Profumo<br />

<strong>di</strong> Provincia”. This elixir of<br />

the coffee bar Borducan obtained<br />

prestigious prizes for its qu<strong>al</strong>ity.<br />

The first one was the gold Med<strong>al</strong><br />

that Borducan received in 1924<br />

at the Rome trade fair, as the certificate<br />

hanged at the entrance of<br />

the coffee bar shows.<br />

In 1875 Costantino Veniani<br />

opened a confectioner’s, which<br />

has his same name. When Giosuè<br />

Carducci met his loved Annie<br />

Vivanti, he usu<strong>al</strong>ly went there.<br />

The loc<strong>al</strong> collection of anecdotes<br />

shows that <strong>al</strong>so Queen Elena used<br />

to stop in Gavirate when she<br />

returned from Milan and used to<br />

buy the typic<strong>al</strong> Veniani’s sweets<br />

with hazelnuts and whites of eggs<br />

beaten stiff. An other fond customer<br />

was Giuseppe Ver<strong>di</strong>, who<br />

I portici ti accompagnano nello shopping nel Corso Matteotti a <strong>Varese</strong> (fotografia <strong>di</strong> Paolo Zanzi)<br />

Archades <strong>al</strong>ong Corso Matteotti in <strong>Varese</strong> (photograph by Paolo Zanzi)<br />

ria, fu lui a inventare la nostra speci<strong>al</strong>ità, i fondants <strong>di</strong> zuc<strong>che</strong>ro. Creò quasi<br />

300 stampi in gesso, intagliandoli a mano uno per uno come piccole sculture».<br />

Tra i clienti illustri ricor<strong>di</strong>amo Gabriele d’Annunzio, il gener<strong>al</strong>e Luigi Cadorna,<br />

il conte Caproni, i giorn<strong>al</strong>isti Luigi Barzini sr. e Luigi Albertini, Li<strong>al</strong>a,<br />

Guido Piovene e Guido Morselli, Alfredo Binda, gli attori Gandusio, Ruggeri,<br />

Dina G<strong>al</strong>li, e Renato Guttuso, <strong>che</strong> arrivava con la moglie Mimise.<br />

Un gioielleria reg<strong>al</strong>e<br />

Da Buzzetti, invece, passava spesso re Faruk, <strong>che</strong> dopo aver fatto spesa da<br />

Enri<strong>che</strong>tta, <strong>una</strong> sorta <strong>di</strong> “boutique della frutta e verdura” degli anni Sessanta,<br />

sceglieva person<strong>al</strong>mente le gemme da donare <strong>al</strong>le sue favorite. Oggi, nello<br />

splen<strong>di</strong>do <strong>negozi</strong>o dai mobili ottocenteschi e d<strong>al</strong>le volte affrescate, lavorano<br />

ancora Remo e Luciana Buzzetti, aiutati d<strong>al</strong> figlio Luigi e d<strong>al</strong>la nuora Letizia.<br />

Il bello “fuori porta”<br />

Uscendo fuori porta, <strong>al</strong>tri due loc<strong>al</strong>i si sono meritati il plauso region<strong>al</strong>e: il<br />

Borducan del Sacro Monte e la pasticceria Veniani <strong>di</strong> Gavirate, dove nacquero,<br />

nel 1878, i “Brutti e buoni”. Con il suo décor art nouveau, il Caffè del<br />

Borducan, oggi an<strong>che</strong> <strong>al</strong>bergo raffinato, è il suggestivo p<strong>al</strong>coscenico per la recita<br />

del grande attore, l’elixir inventato nel 1872 d<strong>al</strong> garib<strong>al</strong><strong>di</strong>no Davide Bregonzio,<br />

un liquore a base <strong>di</strong> arance ed erbe aromati<strong>che</strong> servito da un contenitore<br />

con meccanismo a carillon. Il loc<strong>al</strong>e sacromontino nacque nel 1924 per<br />

merito <strong>di</strong> Anita Angiolini Bregonzio, cui succederà, nel 1947, il figlio Bruno,<br />

immort<strong>al</strong>ato da Franco Pontiggia in <strong>una</strong> splen<strong>di</strong>da immagine in copertina <strong>al</strong><br />

suo libro “Profumo <strong>di</strong> provincia”. L’elixir <strong>al</strong> Borducan ha ottenuto nel corso<br />

degli anni prestigiosi riconoscimenti <strong>di</strong> qu<strong>al</strong>ità, a partire d<strong>al</strong>la Medaglia d’oro<br />

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