After breakfast we headed south along the lakeside to the main town of Como. I had wanted to go by boat but the schedule didn't work out for us. The drive is very pretty but entails going through town after town with very narrow streets and impatient drivers. Apparently the locals get annoyed if you don't drive twice the posted speed limit. Oh, these hot-blooded Italians! Then there is the hassle of parking and driving around in circles. Having a vehicle is nice, but sometimes it is more trouble than it is worth.
The town of Como was settled in Celtic times. Julius Caesar himself ordered that the swamp be drained and the settlement moved down to its present location at the south end of the lake. Both Pliny the Elder and Younger lived here and Cosima Liszt (who later married Wagner) was born in Como. The main attraction is the fine duomo with its façade erected and decorated in the mid-fifteenth century. The interior is quite spacious. The cupola is late 18th century.
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