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What to do on your Lake Como holiday

EaseAway offers a number of different kinds of yachting experience, for non-sailors and sailors, conducted in English or Italian on board a luxury Beneteau Oceanis 323 yacht, the Jandira.
For non-sailors, EaseAway can provide a range of cruises which fall into two categories, depending mostly on what time of the day they take place. During [...]

Apart from some large hotels, there are not many places around Lake Como that provide the kind of facilities offered by La Dolce Acqua, a contemporary Lake Como Spa that also offers beauty treatments and massages.
It’s located in a stylish new building set back from the water at Lenno, on the western side of [...]

There are two ways to get to the ruins of the Castle Vezio, high on the mountainside above Varenna. One is by a footpath, said to take forty minutes to walk. We had hired a car, so drove up steep, narrow, twisting roads that would give even Lewis Hamilton a bit of a fright. But [...]

There is a ‘dirt path’ walk between Dongo and Gravedona, by the side of the lake. It’s either three or four kilometres long, depending on which description you read, but somehow doesn’t seem that far when you walk it. At various points along the path there are tables and seating, where you can have a [...]

San Gottardo is a church on the mountainside about two hundred metres above Dongo. Setting off to walk there, we got lost and passed it without seeing it, ending up about twice as high as we should have been (somewhere near Switzerland, I think). This is what happens when you forget to take the map [...]

There is a number of tours and excursions from Lake Como. In some cases, you can make your own arrangements to get there. Others are probably best enjoyed as organised excursions. These can be booked a couple of days in advance, from tourist information offices or commercial travel agents.

If you find yourself in Milan, on business or on holiday, and you’d like to get out of town for one day, you might find a trip to Lake Como a welcome change. There’s no reason why you can’t do it yourself but it takes a bit of research and you’ll have to rely on [...]

Lake Como can provide a range of adventure sports and outdoor activities – on the water, on land and in the air. And you don’t have to be an expert, or even to have ever done them before, to take part. International centres of excellence typically offer classes for beginners and improvers, including kids.
So unless [...]

Lake Como is primarily a place where adults can relax, go sightseeing, walk around or take part in adventure sports on land, water and in the air. Within that framework, however, there are a number of different things your kids can do at Lake Como – mostly with you, but some on their own [...]

At Lake Como, conventional holiday categories are blurred. For example, picturesque old towns that provide accommodation at night are also sightseeing attractions during the day. And transportation around the Lake by boat and bus is also a kind of sightseeing, because in the course of taking passengers from A to B, they provide some of [...]