Villa Monastero is one of Varenna’s best-known landmarks. It's now a museum showcasing a collection of items left by its owners

The largest basin of the Brianza lakes, a few kilometres from Lecco

One of the presumed houses of the protagonist of The Betrothed, in the Lecco district of Acquate

The Village of Varenna is divided into a grid of streets that steeply slope down towards Lake Como.

The fishermen's village newly popular as a picture postcard destination, with itineraries of art and nature