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Lake Como & Milan

Gothic spires and gallery arcades in Milan, then the slow golden hush of Lake Como just an hour beyond the city.

Ornate Gothic marble spires and finials crown the roof of Milan's Duomo, a visitor photographing between them
Gothic pinnacles atop the Duomo, a visitor pausing among the spires
A marble statue atop the Duomo's roof overlooks Milan's terracotta rooftops and a brick bell tower, framed by a stone quatrefoil
A marble saint watches over Milan through a quatrefoil window
A vintage orange-and-cream Milan tram crosses a cobbled piazza as pedestrians wait to cross
A vintage tram rounds the piazza in central Milan
A sunlit stone colonnade in the Brera district, seen past the silhouette of a passerby's shoulder in the foreground
Sunlight through Brera's colonnade, glimpsed past a stranger's shoulder
Ionic columns frame the arched doorway of the Pinacoteca di Brera museum, its name lettered above the entrance
The columned entrance to the Pinacoteca di Brera
A bronze statue of a hooded friar bends over a stone fountain edge inscribed with lettering, tending a bundle of flowers
A bronze friar leans over the fountain, arranging flowers
A sailboat rests at anchor before a row of ochre and pink lakefront villas on Lake Como at golden hour
Golden hour on the Varenna waterfront, boats pulled in for the night
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A shirtless man casts a fishing line from a red-railed pier into Lake Como as the sun sets over the mountains
A fisherman casts into Varenna's evening water
A straw-thatched gazebo sits amid manicured hedges in a lakeside garden, with Lake Como and its mountains beyond
A thatched gazebo overlooks the lake from a villa garden
A rustic café interior with mismatched wooden chairs, shelves of plaster busts and glass jars, and vases of hydrangeas
Shelves of plaster busts and hydrangeas in a lakeside café
The pale yellow facade of the Grand Hotel Tremezzo rises above its floating swimming pool and orange umbrellas on Lake Como
The Grand Hotel Tremezzo, its floating pool set into the lake
Potted lemon trees stand beside an arched glass doorway on an ivy-covered villa facade at Lake Como
Lemon trees against an ivy-clad villa doorway
A varnished wooden lake boat named Velarca moored at a dock, framed by overhanging willow branches and red geraniums
A wooden lake boat, curtained by willow and red geranium
A stone staircase flanked by tall bamboo leads up to a wooden torii-style garden gate
Stone steps climb toward a garden gate through the bamboo
A narrow oriel window juts from a building where mustard-yellow and terracotta-orange facades meet on an Italian street
A slender bay window wedged between yellow and orange facades
A wooden pier lined with white posts and chain railings extends into Lake Como toward distant mountains and clouds
A dock reaches out into Lake Como toward the mountains
A row of polished gold dome cloches reflect a distorted, warped image of a yellow building and passersby
A row of gold cloches, each holding its own small reflected world
A colorful lakeside town's rooftops seen from a boat, framed by an orange life ring and a passenger's hand in the foreground
Varenna's rooftops, glimpsed past a life ring on the boat rail
A vintage bicycle leans against a burnt-orange building wall between two barred, plant-filled windows
A bicycle rests against a sun-warmed orange wall
A couple walks hand in hand down a narrow cobbled alley past Ristorante da Rino in a Lake Como village
A couple wanders hand in hand down a Como lane
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