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Local Life
Giro d'Italia
Around Lake Como you'll often espy groups of weekend cyclists kitted out as champi-
ons. Just as in any elegant Milan bar, locals like to do things with class. Many follow
routes that have been used as stages of the nation's great cycle race, the Giro d'Italia.
Second only to the Tour de France, the Giro has drawn champions from around the
world since its inauguration in 1909. A time trial stage in Milan is tradition.
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Sorico
FISHING VILLAGE
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The northernmost towns of Dongo, Gravedona and Sorico once formed the inde-
pendent republic of the
Tre Pievi
(Three Parishes) and were a hotbed of Cathar
heresy. Now they're more popular with water-sports enthusiasts than Inquisitors.
Sorico, the most northerly of the towns, guards the mouth of the River Mera,
which flows into shallow Lake Mezzola, once part of Lake Como and now a bird-
breeding nature reserve. Follow the river to the tiny
Oratorio di San Fedelino
,
with its 1000-year-old fresco of Christ and the Apostles. It's only accessible on foot
or by boat from Sorico.
(
;
Gravedona, Domaso)
Eating
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Ittiturismo Da Abate
€€
LARIAN, SEAFOOD
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Da Abate is located just 8km south of Bellagio in the hamlet of Lezzeno. Run by
Claudio and Giuseppe, it is one of the few fish farms left on the lake and is Slow
Food recommended. Sample traditional fish specialities such as
lavarello
in bal-
