Bellagio is a well-known tourist location and elegant health resort situated at the end of the promontory which divides the lake into the Como and Lecco branches, It is about 30 km from Como. In the town you can visit the Villa Melzi, a nineteenth century palace surrounded by a wonderful park containing statues and exotic plants. In the old part of the town there is the Romanesque Church of San Giacomo which was built in the twelfth century and restored in the twentieth.

The old Villa Serbelloni, on the top of a promontory, was substantially rebuilt in the eighteenth century and is surrounded by a large garden with grottoes and a great variety of plant species.

One kilometre away on the road to Lecco you come to Villa Giulia which was built in the eighteenth century within a big garden which slopes down to the lake. At one time it was the residence of Leopold I of Belgium.