Bellagio sits on the tip of the promontory dividing Lake Como into its two branches: a position so perfect the world made it synonymous with lakeside elegance — Las Vegas included, which borrowed the name. Cobbled stairways, the Serbelloni first, stitch the village from lakefront to belvederes.
The gardens of Villa Melzi, romantic and stepping down to the water, are open for strolling; Villa Serbelloni, on the hilltop, now hosts the Rockefeller Foundation's study centre. The ferry links Varenna and Menaggio in a triangle that is the quintessence of Lake Como: half an hour's sailing, a century of holidays.
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The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
