Market Day
Enjoy the local markets – Cernobbio’s local market is every Wednesday in the lakeside square; Como has a market day three times a week and the villages all have special produce and craft markets.
Visit a Villa & Garden
Villa Carlotta in Tremezzo
Villa del Balbianello in Lenno** (film location for Casino Royale and Star Wars Episode II)
Villa Melzi and Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio
Villa Olmo in Como ** (Rubens exhibit see below)
Villa Monastero in Varenna
Ferries stop at most villages, for timetables visit... http://www.navigazionelaghi.it/eng/com/nlc.html
Rubens in Como
27th March - 25th July 2010
Como presents one of the greatest artists of all time in the most important exhibition of the works of Peter Paul Rubens to be held in Italy in the last twenty years, featuring 25 masterpieces from the Painting Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, the Liechtenstein Museum and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, all of Vienna, together with more than 40 works by other seventeenth-century Flemish painters, including Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Gaspar de Crayer, Pieter Boel, Cornelis de Vos and Theodor Thulden.
Silk Museum (Museo dittatico della Seta) in Como
Como is known as the silk capital of Italy and has a buoyant industry in furniture manufacture and design. Opened in 1990 the museum documents the history of the silk industry in Como.
Via Castelnuovo 9, 22100 Como
http://www.museosetacomo.com/eng_home.php
Hit the Lido! (Beach)
There is a lido in Cernobbio and also in Moltrasio for those wanting a spot of sand and sun! But for those of you wanting a more elegant lido experience perhaps to wile away the day lounging under gazebos and having drinks and snacks served to you by a pair of friendly waiters then head to Lido di Lenno. After dark it transforms into a fab outdoor bar with music and dancing (Wed-Sat music nights).
Via Comoedia 1, Lenno
http://www.lidodilenno.com
Hiking, Walking & Cycling
Cernobbio is ideal for hiking and mountain biking. Great paths lead to the top of Mount Bisbino and then travel the Via dei Monti Lariani, a route that runs for 125 km from Cernobbio through the mountains of the western shore of Lake Como up to Sorico.
You can also jump on a bike and ride to Como, along the lakeside road to Lario and beyond, or across the border into the rolling Swiss countryside.
