Lake Como
Three nights, one shore, and the boat that does the work.
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The terrace is the whole architecture here.
An upside-down Y, four hundred and ten metres deep – the deepest lake in Italy – with the mountains coming straight down into it and a century and a half of other people’s villas along the shore.
It is not a place you drive around. It is a place you take boats across, and almost every itinerary I am asked to fix has got that one thing wrong. Here is the whole brief.
You’ve reached the quiet door.
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