Cantù has three glories and none resembles another: furniture and design — the local cabinetmakers' workshops served the great twentieth-century architects — bobbin lace, handed down by museum and schools, and basketball: Pallacanestro Cantù won two European Champions Cups in the 1980s, a feat for a city ten times its size.
Outside the centre, the basilica of Galliano — Lombard Romanesque consecrated in 1007, its frescoes among the region's oldest — justifies the detour alone. Astride Como and Brianza: craftsmanship as a way of life.
Near Cantù
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
