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Como is a charming town in Northern Italy. Adjacent to the facade of the Cathedral, the Broletto is an old communal palace built in the 13C and made up of an arcaded ground floor and an upper floor decorated with windows with three openings.

Started in the late 14th century, completed in the Renaissance and crowned with an 18C dome by Juvara, the Como Cathedral has a remarkable face decorated with exceptional technical skill by the Rodari brothers who also decorated the North Portal, called “the frog’s portal”. The solemn Gothic interior is decorated in the Renaissance style: tapestries, paintings by Bernardino Luini and Gaudenzio Ferrari, and a moving Deposition, sculpted by Tommaso Rodari.

The Saint-Fedele Church is decorated with a curious portal in the apse embellished by beautiful carvings. On the inside, which has three naves, do not miss the superb polygonal Romanesque chancel, which is flanked by absidioles and emphasised by two rows of arcades.

The S. Abbondio Basilica is a masterpiece of Romanesque Lombard architecture, consecrated in 1093, and has a front that is sober and noble fronted by a beautiful portal. On the inside, which has 5 naves, there is a magnificent collection of 14th century frescoes evoking the life of Christ.

Maggiore, Orta, Como, Iseo and Garda are all legends in their own right. Of glacial origins, these long, narrow expanses of water stretch out from Piedmont to Venetia and from Switzerland to Trentino at the foothills of the Lombardy Alps. The climate is mild and the landscape of blue waters and towering peaks is particularly pleasing. It is impossible to resist the charm of these Alpine and southern landscapes, the shores of which are lined in opulent villas set in superb gardens and tiny fishing harbours.