Global Social SeasonDove si riunisce il mondo ★
Como lake in Italy, Lake Como

Italy · Europa meridionale

Lake Como

An Alpine lake of villa gardens, busiest each May for the Concorso d'Eleganza.

Una pagina destinazione è organizzata attorno al tempo: quando il luogo acquista rilevanza, quali eventi ne determinano il peso, e come cambia nel corso dell'anno — seguite dalla geografia pratica (aeroporti, marine, quartieri, zone alberghiere).

Lake Como is a glacial lake in Lombardy, shaped like an inverted Y and covering 146 square kilometers, with a maximum depth beyond 400 meters that makes its basin one of the deepest in Europe, its floor lying over 200 meters below sea level. Roman and later aristocratic settlement built the lake's shoreline as a place for villas rather than working towns, a pattern that continued through the Renaissance and accelerated in the nineteenth century, when European aristocracy and, later, industrialists built or restored the string of lakeside estates, Villa d'Este, Villa Erba, Villa Carlotta, Villa del Balbianello, Villa Melzi, that still define the shoreline and now function variously as hotels, museums and event venues.

The lake's one fixture on the international calendar is the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este, a historic-car judging weekend held each May in the grounds of the Grand Hotel Villa d'Este at Cernobbio, with a public day at the neighboring Villa Erba. Outside that weekend, the lake runs on the rhythm of an Italian resort area: ferries connecting Como, Bellagio, Varenna and the smaller towns, a walking and boating culture built around the shoreline, and a season that runs roughly from Easter to October.

01Quando Lake Como importa

Dodici mesi di attività calcolati dagli eventi presenti nel calendario di questa destinazione — l'importanza di ciascun evento è distribuita sui giorni che occupa. Gli eventi responsabili di ogni mese sono elencati accanto alla barra.

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este · May
Lake Como Monte San Primo, 1682 m high, is located between the two branches of Como Lake over Bellagio and is the highest mountain in, Lake Como Villa Olmo, Como, Lake Como Villa Carlotta (Tremezzo), on Lake Como, Italy Villa Melzi (Bellagio), on Lake Como, Italy Varenna, Italy, Lake Como

02Il calendario qui

In arrivo

Ogni evento nel calendario

1954 Rolls-Royce Phantom IV limousine, chassis 4BP7, built for Princess Margaret with coachwork by H. J. Mulliner & Co., Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este Automotive Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este May 21–23, 2027

Iscriviti al calendario di questa destinazione (ICS) · Apri nel calendario

03Perché è rilevante

The Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este holds its place on the automotive calendar for much the same reason the lake itself has drawn visitors for centuries: the setting does work no ordinary showground could. Villa d'Este's gardens, used for judging cars since 1929, are as much the event's subject as the cars themselves.

04L'anno, mese per mese

GennaioA quiet winter month around the lake, with many hotels and restaurants in the smaller towns closed for the season.
FebbraioStill largely closed for winter, though Como town itself operates normally as a working city independent of the lake's tourist economy.
MarzoThe lake's tourist season begins reopening in stages as the weather turns, ahead of the Easter travel period.
AprileVillas and gardens along the shore reopen for the season, with azaleas and rhododendrons at Villa Carlotta typically near their peak.
MagThe Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este fills Cernobbio for a weekend in the second half of the month, the lake's single busiest fixture, with a public Sunday at neighboring Villa Erba.
GiugnoEarly summer brings the lake to its most comfortable stretch of warm days and cool evenings, before the full heat of high summer arrives.
LuglioHigh season is underway, with ferries, hotels and lakeside restaurants at their busiest through the rest of the summer.
AgostoThe peak of the Italian summer holiday period, with the lake full of both international visitors and Italians on their own August break.
SettembreA favored month among repeat visitors, combining warm water and thinning crowds as the main summer season winds down.
OttobreThe shoulder season continues with mild days, though many seasonal businesses in the smaller towns begin closing for the year.
NovembreMost of the lake's seasonal hotels, restaurants and ferries reduce service or close entirely until spring.
DicembreA quiet winter month, with Como town's own Christmas season the lake's only real seasonal activity.
Tremezzo waterfront of Lake Como, Italy

05Meteo per mese

MeseTemp. max °CMin °CPioggia mm
Gennaio6-279
Febbraio8-174
Marzo134109
Aprile177157
Mag2312201
Giugno2716175
Luglio3019137
Agosto2919173
Settembre2313160
Ottobre199147
Novembre124127
Dicembre9266
 Fonte: Wikipedia climate table for Como (the city at the lake's southern tip; Cernobbio and Bellagio have no dedicated published series of their own, so this is the nearest available station). Wikipedia's own citations for this table are Weather Atlas (weather-atlas.com/en/italy/como-climate) and a Lugano Airport historical record via weatherspark.com; figures are given in whole degrees only, as published, rather than to a false decimal precision. This is a lake, not the sea, so sea_c is null throughout.. Medie di lungo periodo; una determinata settimana può variare.

06Come arrivarci e come spostarsi

AeroportiMilan Malpensa (MXP) · 51 km · commerciale — about 41 minutes by road from Como; the main international gateway for the lake.Milan Linate (LIN) · 55 km · commerciale — approximate driving distance; mainly domestic and short-haul European routes.Milan Bergamo (Il Caravaggio) (BGY) · 65 km · commerciale — approximate driving distance; a low-cost carrier hub east of Como.
MarineComo and Cernobbio lake landings — the ferry piers (imbarcaderi) used by Navigazione Laghi's passenger services; the lake has no seagoing marina, but hotel-operated jetties along the Cernobbio and Bellagio shorefronts serve private boats.
Come spostarsiMilan's three airports each serve the lake by car or train in roughly forty minutes to just over an hour. Ferries operated by Navigazione Laghi connect the lakeside towns; Como has two rail stations, San Giovanni for long-distance and international EuroCity trains and Nord Lago for the Milan commuter line. A car adds flexibility but is not required for the main towns.

07Dove si trovano le cose

Quartieri

Comothe lake's largest town, at the southern tip, with its own historic center, Duomo and silk-industry history.
Cernobbiohome to Villa d'Este and the Concorso d'Eleganza.
Bellagioat the point where the lake's three branches meet, known for its steep lanes and lake views.
Varenna and Menaggiosmaller towns on the lake's eastern and western shores, connected by a cross-lake ferry.

Aree dell'hotel

Cernobbio and Bellagio hold the lake's best-known hotels, several of them converted historic villas, and set the tone for the concours weekend's booking pressure. Como town, at the lake's southern tip, offers a larger and more varied hotel stock connected to the rest of Lombardy by rail.

Quartieri della ristorazione

Bellagio's lakefront and Como's old town carry the highest concentration of restaurants, most oriented toward the lake's own tourist season rather than year-round local trade.

Istituzioni culturali

Villa Carlottaan eighteenth-century villa at Tremezzo, known for its gardens and azalea collection.
Villa del Balbianelloa terraced-garden villa on a wooded promontory, used as a film location.
Villa Melzi d'Erila landscape park at Bellagio with a chapel and Japanese garden.
Villa d'Estethe sixteenth-century villa at Cernobbio, now a hotel, that hosts the Concorso d'Eleganza in its gardens.

Shopping

Como town remains a center of Italian silk manufacturing, and shops around its old town sell scarves and textiles tied to that industry.

08Come cambia il luogo

The lake operates on a clear seasonal switch: open and fully staffed from Easter to October, with the Concorso d'Eleganza as its one internationally significant week, and substantially closed through the winter months outside Como town itself.

09Storia

Villa d'Este, built in 1568 for a cardinal and now a hotel, gives the concours its name and its home. The event itself dates to 1929, when it began as a competition for coachbuilt cars judged on the villa's grounds; it lapsed after the Second World War and was revived in 1995, since when it has become one of the automotive concours calendar's fixed points alongside Pebble Beach and Goodwood.

Nelle vicinanze

Basilica of San Carlo al Corso, Milan Italy Milan Italy's design and fashion capital, busiest for Salone del Mobile and two fashion weeks.

Sulla stampa

Tutte le notizie →

Fonti

  1. Lake Como, Wikipedia encyclopedia consultato 9 September 2026
  2. Como, Wikipedia encyclopedia consultato 9 September 2026
Affidabilità: Medio · Aggiornato 10 September 2026Segnala un errore in questa pagina