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Lake Como

Lecco and other towns on Como lake

Lecco is panoramically the most beautiful town on Lake Como. Here the Adda river leaves the Lario, forming the Garlate Lake. The beautiful landscape of the lake provides a backdrop to the city, which lies at the center of a modern industrial zone, yet preserves the charm of the past. The city is 50 km north of Milan. It is bordered...
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Como

The territory where Como is located has been populated since the middle ages. The hills towards the south prove that this territory belonged to the Golasecca civilization thanks to Ca’ Morta’s archaeological findings. The locals united quite soon with other Celtic populations, the Insubri, between the VI and V century B.C. Around the 1st century BC...
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Lake Como and the Como Province

"That branch of the lake of Como, which extends towards the south, is enclosed by two unbroken chains of mountains, which, as they advance and recede, diversify its shores with numerous bays and inlets. Suddenly the lake contracts itself, and takes the course and form of a river, between a promontory on the right, and a wide open shore on the opposite side. The bridge...

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