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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 [...]

There is a unique attraction near Bergamo called Crespi d’Adda, which is a nineteenth century factory and model village. It was built to meet all of the workers needs – from birth, in the company hospital, to burial in the company cemetery, with needs in between those two being supplied by buildings such as [...]

Visit Milan for the Duomo (gothic cathedral), Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II (shopping), Pinacoteca de Brera (art gallery) or San Siro (football stadium). Above all, try to see the mural of the ‘Last Supper’, the recent restoration of which took ten years and cost £5 million.
Milan is only an hour or so away, by train, from [...]

The Last Supper was an experiment that went badly wrong. Leonardo didn’t follow the established practice for painting on walls, which was to apply the paint to wet plaster, so that the two dried together. Instead, he painted directly onto dry plaster, with catastrophic results. The Last Supper started to peel soon after it was [...]

You might be surprised to hear that you can join an organised day trip from Lake Como to St Moritz, in the summer. A large part of the attraction is that the journey includes a spectacular ride on the Bernina Express, along the only Swiss railway line that crosses the Alps above ground. This was [...]

There are some similarities between Lugano and Como. Both are small towns, with Como surprisingly having the bigger population (80,000 plus, compared with Lugano’s 53,000). Both have lakeside promenades, boat rides and funicular railways.
The main difference between them is that behind the promenade at Como lie the tourist attractions of the old town, separated from [...]

Bergamo is two towns in one – a high level, walled old town and a lower, modern town – connected by funicular. There are tourist offices in both parts.
The centre of the old town is the Piazza Vechia; a wide square with pavement cafes and a fountain, surrounded by impressive medieval and renaissance buildings. The [...]