Nesso

This guide to Nesso on Lake Como opens with Leonardo da Vinci stopping on the shoreline to jot down a description of the ravine splitting the village, a line that survives in his Codex Atlanticus. It traces the two mountain streams that carved the gorge and the mills, presses and spinning wheels that once ran on their force. The Ponte della Civera below you is part Roman, part medieval, rebuilt in stone to link the old hamlets of Coatesa and Riva del Castello.