Castello di Vezio
Clifftop medieval fortress with sweeping lake views, once home to daily falconry demonstrations.
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This guide to Castello di Vezio on Lake Como asks why a single owl now does a job that once took a team of falconers. It opens with years of falconry demonstrations in the castle garden, trainers flying hawks and owls low over the lake while explaining the training behind each flight and the trust it takes to let a wild bird go and have it return. It follows what changed one October, and introduces Artu, the Eurasian eagle-owl now kept apart from visitors. Look past his enclosure toward the lake and the old Iron Street that once carried iron down from the Valsassina mountains.
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