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Bellagio is to head of the cape centers them of Lake Como, it's one between beautiful tourist localities in absolute, not only of the Lario, but of the entire world.
It's beauty has been praised, since the 1500's, from Italian and foreign visitors.

The splendid villas join, the profuse one luxuriance of the trees and the flowers, the colorful perrons, the variety of walks, will be comprised like Bellagio merit the name: Pearl of the Lario.

Bellagio was inhabited preistorica age already, village fortified during the Middle Ages, free Common in the war of ten years deploy against Como, it was possession of the Visconti then of Marchesino Stanga and of the Sfondrati.

Of Romanesque foundation he is the Parochial one of S.Giacomo, to the inside works insigni: one Deposition of Jesus, of the Perugino, one Madonna delle Grazie of Vincenzo Foppa and a crocifisso Romanesque.

There are many villas in Bellagio (beyond Melzi Villa and Serbelloni Villa), one mention: Villa Julia (late 1700), Taverna-Trivulzio-Gerli (fine 1700) with to the inside the ancient Romanesque church of S.Maria of Loppia, Trotti-Bentivoglio-Gerli (1751), the Buttafava-Marchesini and Belmonte (1800).