the Lake Como

Visit Lake Como from the lake with your boat

It is the third Italian lake as a surface with 145 km ² and the first for perimeter development with 170 km. It is located 199 m s.l.m. Among the deepest in Europe , has depths in cryptodepression. It is the fifth deepest basin in Europe with its 410 meters after 4 Norwegian lakes. It reaches a length of 46 km (Gera Lario - Como) and has a width from 650 meters to 4.3 km. Bifido fjord entirely excavated in the circle of the Lombard Prealps , with a characteristic shape of inverted "Y" or , as goes the popular local saying, man-shaped :

- Lake Como is shaped like a man , and that other one leg in Lecco in Como, in Domaso the nose and sit in Bellagio -

It is one of the most beautiful Italian landscapes , settled in 800 by the major poets of Romanticism , by Alessandro Manzoni , Stendhal, George Gordon Byron, Franz Liszt.

Strong is the nautical vocation of the territory. Along the coast of the lake is a series of small private docks and moorings public, many are also equipped marina.
Our nautical center proposed as a starting point to discover the lake Como. From Domaso you can reach in 25 minutes the central lake and 50 minutes to get to Como.