Few places are as romantic as Lake Como, and even fewer resorts as beautiful as Bellagio. Called the “Pearl of the Lake”, Bellagio's world class hotels and restaurants provide the perfect place to soak up the lake's famous panorama. The village is characterised by century-old buildings, stone lanes and picturesque cobbled stairways filled with shops showcasing the finest Italian wares.
The church of San Giacomo is a stupendous example of the Roman-Lombard art (XII cent.), built between 1075 and 1125 by the Masters of Como. Inside mosaics of the early ‘900, rich altar of the end of ‘500, a “Deposition of Christ” by the Perugino school, an archaic cross (XII cent.), a triptych by Foppa (1432), a polychrome wooden sculpture of the “Buried Christ” of the Spanish-Baroque school.
The church of St. Giovanni Battista is a baroque building (XVII cent.), one nave, wooden altar of ‘600. Inside the “Madonna delle Grazie”, fresco of the Lombard school, a sculture of the “Immacolata” in marble of Carrara (Bernini school), a choir in walnut with carved stalls (XVII cent.), and a painting by Gaudenzio Ferrari (1532).
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Gravedona
Gravedona is set in a splendid position along the graceful bay at the foot of the Liro Valley opposite the Piona peninsular and Mount Legnone. Its name has Ligurian roots which indicates a head ... More »
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Villa Balbianello
The Villa del Balbianello is a villa in the town of Lenno, overlooking Lake Como. It is located on the tip of a small wooded peninsula on the western shore of the south-west limb of Lake Como, ... More »
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Montecchio Fortress - Fuentes Fortress
Montecchio Fortress
The only fort of World War I still intact with the 4 largest Italian cannons.
The fort was built in the characteristic style of early 20th century buildings and designed ... More »
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Varenna
Varenna is built upon a rock at the foot of a mountain which rises almost vertically above it, leaving the skeleton of a ruined ancient castle exposed to the sky. Its community dates back to th ... More »
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Villa Carlotta
Villa Carlotta is a marvellous high-class residence on the western shore of Lake Como constructed in 1690 by the Milanese banker Giorgio Clerici and donate by the princess Marianna of Nassau, w ... More »
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Villa Melzi
Villa Melzi was born as a summer residence in Bellagio of Francesco Melzi d’Eril, vice-president of the Italian republic at the time of Napoleon (1801 – 1803). The project, commissioned to the famous ... More »
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Bellagio
Few places are as romantic as Lake Como, and even fewer resorts as beautiful as Bellagio. Called the “Pearl of the Lake”, Bellagio's world class hotels and restaurants provide the perfect place to soa ... More »
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The Abbey of Piona
The Abbey of Piona is Colico's flagship even though it is situated in the hamlet of Olgiasca, on the rocky point which leads down to the half-closed lakelet formed by a natural blockage. More »
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Comacina Island
The Comacina Island is the only island of the lake Como.
Today half-deserted, it was inhabited since the times roman.
It had monuments in paeolocristiana age already (V sec.) and it grew of imp ... More »
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Menaggio
Menaggio is situated on a small cape where the Lake Como reveals in all its awfulness. Optimal its receptive and sport equipment, graceful the dock often full of boats multicolors.
Menagg ... More »
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