Isola Comacina

AttractionLake ComoAbout 2 hours

The lake's only island, small, wooded and scattered with the ruins of a town destroyed in the twelfth century and never rebuilt. A short boat hop, an hour to walk, and a very different register from the villa circuit. Boats are seasonal.

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