Tuesday, 26 April 2011

The Lakes. Como, Menaggio, Bellagio

Some of the most popular places for tourists to visit are the great lakes of Italy. Amazing Alpine backdrops, beautiful buildings, great weather and wonderful food.
Como seems to be the main lake for International visitors to be attracted too, with inevitably Como Town at the forefront of everyone's visit to the area. Como benefits from being one of the easiest destinations outside of Milan to travel too, and other destinations around the lake can be reached from there on.
The Town of Como has trains and boats onto places like Bellagio and Menaggio, and sits less than three miles from the border of Switzerland. Como Town itself is probably not the most stunning of places to visit in Italy, but it does have some of the usual ancient Italian buildings next to the lake and around the Duomo area, that are very nice to take some pictures of, but generally it's all a bit too touristy for me.
Personally the best thing about Como Town is getting on the boats and going up the lake. From there on the scenery is stunning, some the houses along the lakeside are amazing and it leads you to likes of Menaggio and Bellagio, both of which are worth a visit and sit on different parts of the lake.
If you feel brave enough to drive in Italy, this would be the place to do it, as the lakeside drive upto Menaggio is totally stunning.

Lake Como

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