Given the speed at which the cars zip by on the winding road around Lake Como, you are likely to miss Villa Pliniana’s unmarked gates. However, once you head down the steep paved driveway, you are greeted by expansive views of Lake Como—and you know you have reached a special place.
Villa Pliniana is built upon the ‘Pliniana’ spring, a narrow creak of fresh water that runs from the Colorée Valley all the way into Lake Como. The water has been referenced in works of literature dating back to the...
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