18Oct

My Halloween pumpkin
Pumpkins to carve and paint for Halloween, at Villa Carlotta's autumn festival.
Friday to Sunday: festivals, exhibitions, concerts and markets around the lake, and the sights with their Saturday and Sunday opening hours.

30 Oct – 1 Nov
18Oct

Pumpkins to carve and paint for Halloween, at Villa Carlotta's autumn festival.
30Oct

An organ concert in the Romanesque basilica of San Fedele, one evening in late October, with free entry.
Until2Nov
On 1 and 2 November the centre of Sorico fills with stalls, with the livestock area that tradition requires.
Until17Jan 2027

An exhibition at Palazzo delle Paure on the seventies and the utopia of the rock festivals, in pictures by eight photographers.
Until31Dec

Two hundred years since Volta's death: talks, visits and exhibitions, in Como and beyond.
Until6Dec
Local craft stalls on Lungolago Europa.
Last day1Nov

An exhibition spread over seven places in Bellano, from its churches to the Lezzeno sanctuary.
Until31Dec
Morazzone in Como's cathedral, four hundred years after his death.
Until8Dec

An exhibition at Villa Carlotta on the Dutch princess and the dukes of Sachsen Meiningen, for the bicentenary of Georg II.
Until8Dec

The old postcards in Villa Carlotta's Historical Archive show how the garden, the villa and the landscape around them have changed.
Until31Jan 2027

Villa Monastero remembers Marco and Rosa De Marchi, who bequeathed it for public use, ninety years after Marco's death.
1Oct
A festival of Como and Lombard cooking in participating restaurants across the province of Como.
Until8Nov

Villa Carlotta's autumn programme, from early October to early November.
Until7Nov

The autumn festival Lecco devotes to Manzoni, around Villa Manzoni: readings, tours, talks and the Camminata Manzoniana walk.
Until10Jan 2027

The pleat in cloth, from the making to Capucci's gowns: an autumn and winter exhibition at the Silk Museum.
Until13Dec
The Tremezzina's autumn food festival: from October to December, restaurants and hotels in the area serve menus of the lake, the land and Lario tradition.
Last day1Nov
An international exhibition of contemporary textile art, every autumn in Como.
Until22Nov

More than seventy sculptures, paintings and drawings by Paolo Schiavocampo at Palazzo delle Paure, in the autumn.
Until12May 2027

Plays, dance and concerts at the Teatro Sociale on Piazza Verdi.
Until15Nov

Industrial-archaeology photographs of the Gerenzone valley, in Lecco's Torre Viscontea.
The sights and their opening hours on Saturday and Sunday.