Nearest Airport
: Milan - Malpensa 102km and Bergamo - Orio al Serio
at 55
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Nearest Ferry
: Bellagio
at 8
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Nearest Train
: Como - San Giovanni 38km and Varenna - Esino
at 12.6
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Nearest Motorway
: SS 36 at Lecco
at 25
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Nearest Beach
: Lido di Bellagio “Great beach and Lido”
at 8
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Nearest Ski
: Madisimo
at 99
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Nearest Golf
: Como 32Km or Menaggio Croce
at 15
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Car: recommended
Further Sport & Adventure Activities: Bike Rentals, Boat Mooring, Boat Rentals/Charters, Canoeing/Kayaking, Float Plane/Helicopter, Funicular Railway, Park, Public Transportation, Public Villas & Gardens and Rowing Boats.
Bellagio is a beautiful town to explore with a bustling and vibrant visitor centre with boutique shops and wonderful bars and restaurants. The glorious lake front gardens of Villa Melzi are open to the public and a frequent car and passenger ferry service operates to the other golden triangle towns of Menaggio and Varenna.
Lecco is an industrial city with a rich history and offering a wide choice of modern day amenities including a convenient train service to Milan.
The Oliveto Lario / Vassena area:
Ideally situated the Villa is just a 14 minutes drive away from the famous resort town of Bellagio and a 20 minute drive away from Lecco, the historical capital of Lake Como.
Bellagio is a beautiful town to explore with a bustling and vibrant visitor centre with boutique shops and wonderful bars and restaurants. The glorious lake front gardens of Villa Melzi are open to the public and a frequent car and passenger ferry service operates to the other golden triangle towns of Menaggio and Varenna.
Lecco is an industrial city with a rich history and offering a wide choice of modern day amenities including a convenient train service to Milan.
Lombardy:
The Italian Lakes are a little slice of paradise. Elegant ribbons of blue water stretch out ahead, folded into the sun-baked foothills, with a spectacular back drop of the snow-capped Alps.
Lake Como offers hidden treasures just waiting for the visitor to discover them: charming corners forgotten by time, lakeside villages where nothing seems to have changed for centuries.
It is steeped in history with an immense collection of churches, architectural masterpieces and works of art covering the centuries. The lake is situated in a basin surrounded by wooded mountains, and offers an extremely varied landscape, with its' shores featuring a succession of pastures, and woods as well as harsh and impressive rock formations.
All this alongside elegant, lakeside villas with sub-tropical gardens, which provide a haven of peace and tranquillity and chic resorts such as Varenna, Bellagio, Menaggio and Como itself.
Warming, in spriing and graced with natural beauty, the lakes are still a place to draw breath and wonder. Lake Como, oriented north-south, ringed by characterful old villages often wedged onto narrow beaches between rugged cliffs and water. Those classic lake images of flower strewn balconies, Baroque gardens and splendid waterside villas can be found here in abundance. Dotted around and between the lakes are some of Italy's finest art cities, such as Milan, Verona & Bergamo.
The most romantic and picturesque villages on the lake are Santa Maria Rezzonico, Varenna (15 min by ferry) & Bellagio (8 min by ferry), Lenno (visit Villa Balbianello, location for 007's Casino Royale as well as Villa Gaeta, right here in Menaggio) & Laglio (where George Clooney owns Villa Oleandra).
