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Some visitors happily find their own way around Lake Como, perhaps with the help of a guide book. For others who are perhaps travelling in groups or don’t hire a car or just prefer the transport and information to be organised by somebody else; there are guided tours available. Guided tours are here defined as [...]

Lake Como Sightseeing Lake Como sightseeing opportunities are found mostly in the mid Lake area, the western side of the Lake, Como town and the northern end of the Lake (Alto Lario). Lake Como Guided Tours Some visitors happily find their own way around Lake Como, perhaps with the help of a guide book. For [...]

The official ‘Lago di Como’ ferry leaflet (available from ferry points around Lake Como) opens out to reveal one timetable on one side (Como – Colico and reverse) and four on the other (counting ‘there’ and ‘back’ schedules as one). To get the best from what follows, you need to have that leaflet open in [...]

There are a number of specialised museums around Lake Como, some of which will interest a wider audience: Como produces almost all of Europe’s silk, supplying every Italian designer you can think of, and two former factories have been converted into museums. One is the Museo didattico della Seta di Como, at Via Castelnuovo 1, [...]

There are a number of locations around Lake Como for horse riding: The Cavalcalario Club, Bellagio, provides horses for one, two hours or for the whole day. The Centro Ippico del Lario in Sorico and El Picadero in Colico both organise rides and lessons.

Hire of mountain bikes is widespread around Lake Como. Some of most popular locations are: Tabo Surf Centres at Gera Laria and Sorico – new Scott Test Centre. Rates per day are: €15 (basic), €25 (front suspended Scale 50) and €27 (full suspended Aspect 15 and 25). Map of mountain routes available. The centres also [...]

The most important villas for most visitors to Lake Como include the Villa Olmo in Como, the Villa D’Este and Villa Erba in nearby Cernobbio, the Villa del Balbianello near Lenno, Villa Carlotta in Tremezzo, Villa Monastero in Varenna and the Villas Serbelloni and Melzi near Bellagio. They stand out because of their size, position [...]

The Villa Carlotta in Tremezzo is possibly the only, and certainly the best known, villa on the Lake to provide visitors with ticketed access, on a ‘free range’ basis, to both ‘house’ and gardens. The neo-classical building is described by one guide book as ‘sober’. But that certainly doesn’t apply to the external steps – [...]

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 the [...]

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, [...]