These handwritten love letters are always mysterious.

Who do you think wrote them and who hid them?

At some point, some of the letters that some guests at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo on Lake Como had written in the 1920s were collected and hidden behind wallpaper in the library.

Some bore a date, some a signature, but to this day no one knows who wrote them for whom or why they were left at the hotel.

Whether the letter writers met in the Grand Hotel for a secret love affair, whether it was the beginning of a lasting liaison or an amour fou, that too will always remain a secret.

It was not until the 1970s that ten love letters were found behind the wallpaper after a renovation and they have been guarded like a family treasure.

Intimate confessions don't belong on the phone

Only now did the hotel owner Valentina De Santis decide to leave a reprint of a selected letter text together with a chocolate as a good night greeting on the guests' pillows every evening: "You'll be there, won't you?

Down, just like you promised?

You laughed when I asked you a second time, and I remember your eyes now as I step out of my room and walk down the grand staircase of the hotel in the stillness of the morning.” This is how one of the letters begins.

Even a hundred years later, the feelings of lovers can still be felt as they write, like kisses and ink sighs captured on paper.

Especially today, on the day of writing the letter, it is worth remembering that perhaps for once such intimate confessions should not be sent via messenger chat via smartphone.

After all, writing letters on paper and with a fountain pen is now just as wonderfully outdated as the Belle Époque grandeur of historic grand hotels, which date back to a time when people still lived in hotels instead of just spending the night in them.

Writing letters by hand will probably soon be completely gone, if only because it requires a brief pause in our digital news world.

Nevertheless, it is still a nice idea that someone chooses a piece of paper especially for you and writes a heart-rending text on it by hand, in which you can still see the effort even a hundred years later.

It can hardly be formulated more aptly than an age-old slogan of Deutsche Post: Write again!