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ITALY’S IDYLLIC LAKE GARDA

  The moat and drawbridge of the medieval fortress guards the entrance into Sirmione. Photo, Alamy There aren’t many places in Europe more beautiful than Italy’s Lag…

BELLA BELLAGIO, THE JEWEL OF LAKE COMO

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Beautiful Lake Como. Northern Italy offers a wonderful series of lakes, and Lake Como is generally regarded as the most spectacular of them all.  Its unmistakable upturned…

SIRMIONE, LAKE GARDA—HOME TO A MOATED CASTLE AND AN ENORMOUS ROMAN VILLA

Scaglieri Castle, the entrance into Sirmione.  ‘The pearl of islands!’ wrote the Roman poet Catullus in the 1st century BCE, describing the town of Sirmione, on the southe…