Loppia
Old fishing hamlet where boats and nets once filled ground floors beneath family homes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Loppia, a small fishing hamlet on Lake Como, starts with a famous fugitive from Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed and the slim wooden boats moored in the harbor. It then moves to an old sailing barge, a rare survivor of the cargo trade, and to a Romanesque church and its Benedictine nuns hidden behind a lakeside villa. Best heard standing by the dock, where the boats are in view.
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