Lake Como Trips & Tours

A hideaway for poets, aristocrats and a few Hollywood movers and shakers, Lake Como is dramatic, theatrical and very, very beautiful. Its narrow, branching Y-shape creates steep wooded slopes that drop sharply into intensely blue water, the towns — Bellagio, Varenna, Menaggio — carefully dotted in between. There’s a real hint of the Roman here, and the neoclassical estates and tiered wedding-cake gardens that cling to the shore are no less fabulous than they were centuries ago. The five-star hotels are numerous and legendary, and as much a part of Como as the scenery, especially when you’re on the terrace, spritz in hand. But the best way to admire the cinematic landscape is undoubtedly from the water, cruising on a traditional, Venetian-style vessel or an elegant Riva boat before arriving back to land for sunset.