Sailing around the Ramo di Como

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Sailing around the Ramo di Como

This post is a follow-up to my previous one on the city of Como, and follows the same format, consisting of a brief explanation followed by a picture gallery.

Before anyone thinks that I’ve got a yacht of my own moored up at a luxurious lakeside villa somewhere, I’m afraid I’m going to have to disappoint you: I might gain a few extra followers if I lied, but the truth is I would need pockets as deep as the lake itself to be able to afford to live like that – and I haven’t. If you’ve also got the same type of pockets as me, you might be pleased to learn that the public motorships that ply the lake are a great way of taking everything in without it costing a fortune.

Lake Como is actually shaped like an inverted ‘Y’ and composed of three branches – Colico, Lecco and Como – which meet in the Centro Lago at the picturesque town of Bellagio. The River Adda feeds the lake and enters it near Colico in the north, and finally flows out of it at Lecco in the south-east, but it’s not the only source of water as there are around 36 other tributaries.

This 600 ft deep lake was originally a glacier and is surrounded by a magnificent landscape, which includes the Grigne mountain range whose highest peak is the Legnone at 2609 metres (8559 ft). With all this fabulous scenery around it’s not surprising that many famous people have owned villas here – and who can blame them?

The Ramo di Como is the Como branch of Lake Como, and hopefully the picture gallery will give you an idea of what you can expect to see from one of the boats operated by Navigazione Laghi. They criss-cross the lake, and so they can be used as a hop on-hop off service, but we stayed on board until we reached the Centro Lago (Central Lake).

To try and make sense of it all, I’ve put together a selection of pictures in the gallery which follows the western shore going north from Como to the Centro Lago, and the eastern shore going south for the return journey.

You would need a lot more time than we had available to cover the whole lake and its villages and towns, but in the next and final part of this trilogy of picture galleries I’ll be describing some of the places we saw around the Centro Lago, so I hope this post will whet your appetite enough to come back one more time.

 

The music is Ce Matin-La by Air

For those of you who prefer to see the pictures on a loop, I’ve created the same gallery on the carousel below.

POSTED – JULY 2021

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Originally posted 2021-07-25 10:46:55.

33 thoughts on “Sailing around the Ramo di Como”

    1. Easymalc Post author

      At least the nights start drawing out after today Shey. Glad this post brightened things up a bit for you 🙂

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  2. Fairy Queen

    Hello, I’m Queen from Italy. Lago di Como is very famous because George Clooney had his home here and now is searching another house for his friends. I’ve never been there and in my country there are more beautiful lakes like Lago di Braies. So if you want to search for it do that 😉

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    1. Easymalc Post author

      Thank you for your lovely comments. Hope you’re keeping well and have a wonderful weekend 😊

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  6. restlessjo

    Such a lovely part of the world, Malc! I recognise a few places but we were based at Bellagio and saw more of the bottom end of the lake. All beautiful!

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  9. Sylvia Somers

    As soon as I saw your opening photo of the Villa Balbianello I knew I had to read this post!!! (Some may remember it from a scene in the most recent “Casino Royale”.) Thanks to work, I spent nearly a week in Bellagio (had some time in Menaggio too). That’s when I fell in love with the Lago di Como area and still think it’s one of the most beautiful places on earth! The addition of music is a nice touch! Thanks for the great photos once again, Malcolm!

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    1. Easymalc Post author

      It certainly is a beautiful place Sylvia, but I can’t help thinking what a fabulous job you must have had too 🙂 Thanks for your lovely comments as well by the way.

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    1. Easymalc Post author

      Thanks Luisa. Obviously I don’t know it intimately like you do, but I hope I’m presenting it in a way you approve of.. You can always message me if you see something that isn’t right 🙂

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  12. equipsblog

    Gorgeous, Malcolm. My only facetious comment, that if you had saved this as a Powerpoint show, I would not have had to continue to push the next arrow while I enjoyed the music and all of the pictures. (Some people are never satisfied.)

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    1. Easymalc Post author

      It’s a fair point Pat, and I do sometimes project a series of pictures in the form of a carousel, but thanks for looking at them all the same 🙂

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    1. Easymalc Post author

      Thanks so much for your kind words again Francesc. You’re far too generous, but I’m really pleased that you enjoyed it all the same.

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