Brunate
Hillside village above a lake, reached by a cable railway climbing a steep, wooded slope.
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This guide to Brunate, the ridge village above Como on Lake Como, opens with a slope so steep it kept the place small for most of its history. It reaches back to the country people who climbed up on foot or behind a mule, and to the year 1894, the wealthy Milanese families and the Art Nouveau villas that came to line the ridge. Best heard with the lake in view.
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