Bellano

Right behind this town on the eastern shore of Lake Como, the Pioverna stream has carved the Orrido, a deep gorge you enter on wooden walkways fixed to the rock above a waterfall. Cotton mills made Bellano a small industrial centre in the 19th century; today it draws visitors with its lakeside promenade, its ferries and the novels of Andrea Vitali, who sets his stories here.

Highlights

• The Orrido di Bellano, a gorge and waterfall seen from walkways on the rock (IT)
• The church of Santi Nazaro e Celso, from 1348, with its large rose window
• Pesa Vegia on 5 January: re-enactment, bonfire on the pier, parade of the Magi
• Giovanni Angelo Del Maino's carved Deposition of nine figures in Santa Marta
• The lakeside promenade with small pebble beaches

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.