Portrait·2 min
Stories from the lake
Stories of the lake: its trades, winds, cooking, architecture and life out of season.
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Feature·2 min
Como silk
Como has worked silk for centuries: in the district the thread that arrives from Asia is twisted, woven, dyed and printed, mostly for fashion houses.
Feature·2 min
Palazzo Terragni, rationalism beside the cathedral
In 1936 Giuseppe Terragni completed the Casa del Fascio in Como, now Palazzo Terragni: a rationalist building in white marble fifty metres from the apse of the cathedral.
Season·3 min
Lake Como in winter
In winter the museums of Como and Lecco, the Romanesque churches and the Brunate funicular stay open, while almost all the great gardens close until spring. The centre-lake ferry runs all year, with fewer sailings.
Feature·2 min
The lake in colour, around 1895
A dozen views of Lake Como printed in colour with the photochrom process in the 1890s: Bellagio, the Tremezzina, Cadenabbia, Menaggio and Como.
Feature·2 min
The lake's first photographers
From the 1840 lithographs made from daguerreotypes to Carlo Bosetti's albumen prints in Bellagio: sixty years of photographs of Lake Como.
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