This essay is a part of Companion Fare, a series of personal stories about nonromantic love and travel.

Forget outdated guidebooks and endless online searches. With Explore Como Lake and Explore Lake Garda, trip planning is streamlined into one seamless experience. The platforms are designed with ...

Luxury tour operator SwisSkiSafari tracks powder at a micro level to whisk clients to Europe's prime slopes. We pursued the ...

Lake Como is an undeniably gorgeous destination in Northern Italy, and Varenna is truly one of the most beautiful towns on ...

The pool at Grand Hotel Tremezzo, Lake Como, Italy Lake Como Italy Sunset over Lake Como, Italy Lake Como, Italy I arrived at my final destination feeling relaxed and pleased I’d booked the service.

The arrival of a new arts center and new hotels like The View have done much to put the small city further on the map ... the city, Lake Lugano, the Alps, and, in the distance, Italy.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Como’s Gabriel Strefezza, center right, celebrates scoring with teammates during the Serie A soccer match ...

There are also grand houses with grand gardens, plus the homes of writers, poets and artists to explore (poet William Wordsworth arguably put the region on the map). What’s more, there is a jaw ...

This is not to say that the rest of the hotel is not magical ... oldest family companies (with no name or ownership changes) in Italy, a billion-euro enterprise with interests in construction ...

Introducing size – below we look at Italy’s 30 largest towns and cities ... Padua and Mantua. Lake Garda, too, is nearby, with the Dolomites just beyond. And come summer, the city’s Roman ...

It should come as no surprise that vine-friendly plots intersperse the steep, bristly terrain squished between the lake and ... of luxury in Como, Il Sereno is a knockout hotel with no bad angles ...