Museo Degli Strumenti Per La Navigazione

This guide to the Museo degli Strumenti per la Navigazione in Bellagio, on Lake Como, starts with a discrepancy nobody has resolved: is Gianni Gini's collection two hundred pieces or over six hundred? Gini was a sailor first, owner of a nineteenth-century racing cutter and an America's Cup yacht, before he spent decades buying up compasses, astrolabes, chronometers and sundials once used to navigate the open sea. You'll follow how he organized them, floor by floor in a restored Bellagio tower house, around the questions sailors once had to answer without satellites or radio.