Arrived to Lago di Como on the 6th day of the tour.

Stayed at Silvio's in Bellagio and made a ferry trip to Menaggio and Varenna. Beautiful places!

Good night!

ps. my other trips to Lake Como can be found here.

Bellagio

 What is this? Horses!

A talking tree

 Apples made of red roses

The conservatory of Bellagio was theatrically decorated

in autumn theme 

 The greenhouse is massive

- the displays change from season to season

- Chef Michael Mina's restaurant on the background 

 Bellagio resort opened in 1998

 Detail of the beautiful Carrara marble mosaics floor

 Bellagio has a gallery of Fine Arts

 Chocolate fountains

 It looks like this behind the reception

 Famous ceiling of the hotel's lobby

- a dazzling display of a colourful and vibrant

glass flowers sculpture

 Detail of Fiori di Como by glass artist Dale Chihuly

 Going out of Bellagio

 Well, not yet out,

there's also an upscale glass enclosed

shopping promenade called Via Bellagio

with nice shops like

Hermes, Prada, Chanel, Dior, Tiffany&Co....

 Front facade

- ocher- and terracotta-coloured

Mediterranean-style building

 Famous dancing fountains

- more than 1000 streams of water shoot up to 76m

in the air with music

 The sound when the water drops back to the lake

is like a thundering noise

- could see (and hear) this also thru the window from the room of Vdara

 Beautiful!

 As already in Italy, let's continue it here to Rome

- Caesars Place on the background

Don't really have to walk there....

Lazy day in Bellagio

View of Lake Como
from room 32
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After all that running & walking,

Sunday was a peaceful day for relaxing

in Bellagio
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Streets of belaggio downtown
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Local cheese shop
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Lots of shops & fine boutiques

selling Tod's, Missoni...
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Had lunch in downtown
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Tortelloni filled with cheese in pesto sauce
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Delicious piece of fruit cake
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Rest of the day enjoyed the great view

from the balcony of room 32,

reading a book, eating crisps...
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Sunday seemed to be a boating day!

Lots of boats at the lake

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Silvio's

Saturday dinner at Silvio’s
- wanted to eat there once more as it was so good last time

- and this time was no disappointment either!

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As a starter chose local mozzarella type of cheese

called burratina

with a portion of sun dried tomato, potato & zucchini

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Main course was - surprise, surprise:

grilled lavarello

& 1 sardine - a local speciality.

Very good strong taste

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And sorbetto ended the great dinner

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Hiking in Bellagio

Saturday walk

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Bellagio has an area that extends from app. 200m at sea level

to reach the peak of Monte San Primo at 1.680m

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Bellagio is divided into 22 small hamlets

that are all extremely characteristic .

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Walked up to Vergonese,

then up and down through Mulini del Perlo,

Visgnola, Regatola, Villa Giulia, Oliveiro…

These are all hamlets of Bellagio

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Saw many green houses
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No idea what is the name of this plant
with flowers and fruit at the same time
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Lunch in Pescallo at La Pergola

Entrance to La Pergola
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View of the lake Como

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As a starter had caprese
- too much mozzarella, heavy one

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As a main course had a local dish:

fried pesce persico (perch filets)

with rise & curry sauce!
- very good!

Don’t know how they had made the rice so tasty!

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Boats in Pescallo
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The cobble stoned paths went up & down

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Pink house & pink flowers

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Continued to walk to the downtown,

had an stracciatella ice cream

and sat down for a moment at Punta Spartivento

- the end of the peninsula

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Punta Spartivento
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Someone's villa in the end of the peninsula
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Didn't choose the easiest way back to the hotel...

Again took a small path up & down, steep steps etc.

- not easy but very pretty

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The path went through a farm

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