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Lake Como Route
   1. The Lake
   2. Cernobbio
   3. Villa Erba
   4. San Vincenzo
   5. Villa d'Este
   6. Moltrasio
   7. Villa Passalacqua
   8. Sant'Agata
   9. Laglio
   10. Isola Comacina
   11. Ossuccio
   12. Lenno
   13. Santo Stefano
   14. Battistero
   15. Balbianello
   16. Mezzegra
   17. Tremezzo
   18. Villa Carlotta
   19. Menaggio
   20. Santo Stefano
   21. Bellagio
   22. San Giacomo
   23. Villa Serbelloni
   24. Villa Melzi
   25. Varenna
   26. Villa Monastero
   27. Vezio
   28. Piona
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Lake Como Route
6. Moltrasio

Moltrasio is the destination No. 6
in our visiting tour on Lake Como. A list of destinations is available, each with an audioguide. We travel northbound, from Como to Piona.

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Located a short way north of Cernobbio - about 9 kilometres from Como in the Argegno-Menaggio direction - is the town of Moltrasio. If you're travelling by car it's worth taking the panoramic route followed by the original Strada Regina which winds its way from Moltrasio to Laglio passing through Carate Urio. To take this old route rather than a more recently built stretch of the Regina, take the first downhill turn-off to the right once you've left Villa d'Este behind you.

The various parts of Moltrasio are built at different heights on Mount Bisbino as it slopes down towards the lake. Hundreds of years ago it was already famous for the stone quarried here: this local Moltrasina stone was used by the celebrated master stonemasons from Como who worked throughout Southern Europe between the 12th and 15th centuries.
Nowadays Moltrasio is known as an elegant little town with beautiful villas stretching along the shores of the lake: one of them is Villa Passalacqua, which can be visited.
Moltrasio's most illustrious former residents and visitors include Vincenzo Bellini, the famous 19th-century opera composer, best remembered for Norma, Winston Churchill who, so legend would have it, tried to retrieve his mysterious correspondence with Benito Mussolini at Villa Le Rose, and fashion designer Gianni Versace, who owned Villa Le Fontanelle.

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Lake Como Route
1. The Lake
2. Cernobbio
3. Villa Erba
4. San Vincenzo
5. Villa d'Este
6. Moltrasio
7. Villa Passalacqua
8. Sant'Agata
9. Laglio
10. Isola Comacina
11. Ossuccio
12. Lenno
13. Santo Stefano
14. Battistero
15. Balbianello
16. Mezzegra
17. Tremezzo
18. Villa Carlotta
19. Menaggio
20. Santo Stefano
21. Bellagio
22. San Giacomo
23. Villa Serbelloni
24. Villa Melzi
25. Varenna
26. Villa Monastero
27. Vezio
28. Piona
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