The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was right: "This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty," he wrote in 1818. Beautiful Romanesque churches, splendid aristocratic villas with exuberant gardens, romantic medieval towns with steep cobbled lanes and spectacular viewing points, which offer an ever-changing panorama of the blue lake with the backdrop of snow-capped mountains—Lake Como has it all.
Como, the largest city on the lake, is best enjoyed on a day excursion, whereas Bellagio, Menaggio, Tremezzo and Cernobbio are idyllic towns and perfect for longer stays.
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