Porto Pescallo

This guide to Porto Pescallo on Lake Como follows a working fishing harbor tucked into the Bellagio promontory since the early twelve hundreds, one of just three coves trusted to supply Como's fish market. It traces the families who lived by the nets, the cramped chapel to Saints Blaise and Andrew squeezed into the square above, and the narrow lane still built for baskets rather than suitcases. Listen for how the sound at the waterline has changed, and for what a fishing village keeps of itself once the boats stop fishing.