Lake Como · Things to do

A ten-kilometre waymarked walk between Colonno and Griante along old mule tracks and lake-shore lanes, passing through half a dozen villages.

A neoclassical villa on Como's waterfront with free public gardens and a rotating exhibition programme inside.

Como still weaves a large share of Europe's silk. The museum keeps the dyeing vats, looms and printing machinery from the industry's peak.

A Cluniac priory on a wooded spit at the northern end of the lake, with a Romanesque cloister and monks selling their own liqueur.

The lake's only island, reached by a short boat hop from Sala Comacina, with the ruins of a town Como destroyed in 1169 and left empty.