Hiking in Bellagio Bellagio and Surroundings
Do you lile to walk among history and nature ? Do you like landscape glimpses and colours ? Are you searching for fun, culture, well being and good food ?
Hiking Bellagio will be able to satisfy all your wishes ! An excursion, guided by a local, that, untieing through Bellagio fractions and theirs prominent places, will allow you to retrace Bellagio history and of its celebrated characters.
Every fraction contains curioousities to be told about which we give short hints to raise your curiousity!
Pescallo, starting point for our excursion, is nown as a fishermen village, Aureggio is a small fraction which allows us to admire ancient Montù estate and San Carlo Borromeo church (16th century) and then Villa Giulia boulevard, a grass sweep which permits to admire lanscape on both lake branches, Loppia fraction with majestic Villa Melzi and
Lake Como gondolas docked at its small harbour. Being at around half of our route we will take a small refreshment at Darsene Restaurant. At the end of of the refreshment we will continue route in San Giovanni village direction with panoramic view of Tremezzina opposite lake coast.
Route along rural area begins crossing Vergonese fraction where it will be possible to admire Villa PLacida and starting from here we will continue till we will access path nr. 1 of “dorsale del triangolo lariano” that will lead us to our journey destination “Baita Belvedere” at Chevrio locality. During the excursion, in a few segments with ascending, we will have the occasion to observe beech and chestnut woods, typical of this area landscape.
Our refreshment will be authentic, informal and genuine. We will enjoy food pleasures with products farmed directly from “Baita Belveder” farm animals and plantations, a an educational guided farm tour is cosnidered.
For our way back a little bus will bring us at destination point, located in the nearby of Villa Giulia of which we will admire olive trees garden extension, and passing by Perlo locality, still functioning water mills
3 hours
Easy
not available
We suggest comfortable shoes and dresses, spare dressing, water bottle (this last one can be purchased also along the route)
When is it possible to make excursion ? from May till October
Participants number ? Maximum 8 participants