Careno
Stone-stepped lakeside hamlet reachable only on foot or by boat, its houses built from local quarried limestone.
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Careno is a lakeside hamlet on Lake Como that can only be reached by boat or on foot, and its two churches raise a question this guide sets out to answer. You'll meet a twelfth-century papal document, the stonecutters who quarried the mountain above the lanes, and the household heads who once ran the village themselves. Best heard on the shore by the water, before you climb the steps.
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