Greenway del Lago di Como
Ten-kilometer lakeside path tracing an ancient Roman road past olive groves, frescoed villas, and quiet hamlet gates.
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This guide to the Greenway del Lago di Como follows the easy ten-kilometer path along the old Roman road, the Strada Regina, through seven lakeside hamlets, olive groves and frescoed villa gates. Woven into that quiet walk is late April 1945, when partisans stopped a retreating German convoy near the lake's northern end and pulled a disguised passenger from the truck, holding him overnight in a farmhouse in Mezzegra while his companion refused to leave his side. You'll hear how a wartime stop along this shoreline sits alongside centuries of olive groves and merchant palaces. Look for the plain marker along the path, easy to walk past.
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