“Did you see George Clooney?” That is the question I heard the moment I got home from my trip. As soon as I said the words “Lake Como,” my friends asked if I saw George. I told them I saw Bellagio but not George; it was disappointing for me, too.
Bellagio—the real thing, not the Vegas casino resort—is a picturesque little town in Lombardy, Italy, with “beauty” (bella) embedded in its very name. However, the historical sources attribute it to the Latin bilacus (“two lakes”). The town, also called a “pearl of Lake Como,” is located between the two legs that comprise Lake Como’s shape of […]