Salita Serbelloni

This guide to Salita Serbelloni in Bellagio, on Lake Como, starts inside the Bottega del Legno, a woodworking shop the Tacchi family has run since eighteen fifty-five near the top of these stone steps. It follows the staircase itself, tumbling from Via Garibaldi to the waterfront, and the way visitors treat it less like a street than a stage. You'll hear how the steps once led toward the hilltop Villa Serbelloni, rebuilt from a fifteenth-century castle, and the family whose name is carved into the stone underfoot. Watch how people pose and hop down the steps as you listen.