Explore the lake

The Triangle15

• TownsNessoA village split in two by a waterfall, with a stone bridge where the water meets the lake.
• TownsMagreglioThe Ghisallo village: the chapel and the bicycle museum are here.
• TownsSormanoThe Muro: 1,700 metres averaging 17%, with the altitudes painted on the road.
• TownsLezzenoSeventeen hamlets strung out for more than seven kilometres along the eastern shore, from the Cavagnola point towards Bellagio, facing the Isola Comacina: a parish church with a Roman inscription in its bell tower, the tower of Rozzo and, towards Bellagio, the sheer walls of the Sassi Grosgalli, with a cave you can only visit by boat.
• AttractionsOrrido di NessoA waterfall entering the lake under a stone bridge, at the bottom of three hundred steps.
• AttractionsMuro di SormanoThe Sormano Wall, the cycling climb from Sormano to the Colma, closed to cars: the Giro di Lombardia dropped it after 1962, amid the riders' protests, and later took it back.
• AttractionsSormano Astronomical ObservatoryThe astronomical observatory at 1,128 metres on the Colma di Sormano, at the top of the Muro, with a telescope open to the public.
• AttractionsCastle of the Sormani, SormanoRemains of the castle destroyed in 1555, with walls rebuilt in the 1960s and a serizzo stone gateway bearing the Sormani arms.
• AttractionsSan Lorenzo Castle, NessoThe wall up to fifteen metres high that remains of the castle built by the people of Como in 1449 and destroyed in 1532, in the war against the Medeghino, with turrets and swallowtail merlons added in the nineteenth century; beside it, the church of San Lorenzo.
• AttractionsNosée Valley, NessoAt Nosée, above Nesso towards Tronno, the stream that further down forms the gorge gathers in a large pool beneath a double-arched stone bridge; further on, among the stones, is a second pool, the Pozzo dei Ladri.
• AttractionsMenaresta, source of the LambroThe karst spring of the Lambro above Magreglio, at 942 metres above sea level: a siphon in the rock that fills and overflows in a cycle of about eight minutes, hence the name — the water “mena”, flows on, and “resta”, stays.
• AttractionsBulberi CaveAt Lezzeno, below the sheer walls of the Sassi Grosgalli, the cave reached only by boat, where legend says the bulberi, the lake's largest fish, took refuge.
• Ferry piersNessoLimited, seasonal sailings
• Ferry piersLezzenoBoat
• Ferry piersCarenoA hamlet of Nesso