{"id":1996,"date":"2013-10-12T00:45:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T14:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.lewisdrafting.com.au\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2013-10-12T02:54:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T16:54:23","slug":"lake-como-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"Lake Como Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent a beautiful and relaxing week in Lake Como.<\/p>\n

Lake Como\u00a0,\u00a0is a lake of glacial origin in\u00a0Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of 146\u00a0square kilometres\u00a0, making it the third largest lake in Italy. At over 400\u00a0metres (1,300 feet) deep, it is one of the deepest lakes in Europe, and the bottom of the lake is more than 200 metres (660\u00a0ft) below sea-level. We could probably be safe in our boat here !<\/p>\n

Lake Como has been a popular retreat for aristocrats and wealthy people since Roman times, and a very popular tourist attraction with many artistic and cultural gems. It has many villas and palaces. Many famous people have or have had homes on the shores of Lake Como, such as Madonna, George Clooney (he was out when we visited ), Versace and Sylvester Stallone. Lake Como is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful lakes in Europe, and we can now understand why.!!!<\/p>\n

We had a beautiful room, that after walking the 120 stairs to reach it (really hard after doing it a couple of times a day…. after all the other stairs….1000’s), was perfectly place on what seemed like the top of the lake! We could hear the church bells nearby ring on the half hour, day and night, and at siesta time, hear the jolly little Italian man singing happily away while he worked in the bar below us. We were lucky to catch up with one of my sisters Diane,\u00a0and brother-in-law Dennis, for dinner one night during their trip\u00a0in Italy.<\/p>\n

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Our favourite gelatos\u00a0in Menaggio Lake Como<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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After 120 steps up…. our room with a view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bellagio,<\/a>
Bellagio, Lake Como<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Menaggio,<\/a>
Menaggio, Lake Como<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Menaggio\"<\/a>
Menaggio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lake<\/a>
Lake Como car ferry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Verenna<\/a>
Verenna from the lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mal,<\/a>
Mal, on one of the many hundreds of staircases in Lake Como. We tried to walk at least 10km a day to help with the eating !<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Menaggio\"<\/a>
Menaggio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Water<\/a>
Water taxi Bellagio, Lake Como<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We spent a beautiful and relaxing week in Lake Como. Lake Como\u00a0,\u00a0is a lake of glacial origin in\u00a0Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of 146\u00a0square kilometres\u00a0, making it the third largest lake in Italy. At over 400\u00a0metres (1,300 feet) deep, it is one of the deepest lakes in Europe, and the bottom of the lake … Continue reading Lake Como Italy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy-france-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}