Region: LOMBARDIA
Province code: CO
Zip code: 22020
Phone area code: 031
Distance from COMO 7 Km / 4 Miles
Elevation: 225 mt / 740 feet
TORNO
This health resort is situated on a promontory on the east side of the Como branch of the lake, about 7 km from Como. The Parish Church of Santa Tecla, with its 1480 Gothic door and rose window, is on the lakeside. It contains a sixteenth century fresco by Benzi. The Church of San Giovanni is in the upper part of the village. It was built in the fourteenth century and has a Romanesque bell tower and a Renaissance door. The Villa Pliniana is 2 km away. This private house was built in the sixteenth century and is surrounded by large gardens where there is an intermittent waterfall which Pliny the Elder described. Famous writers and musicians, such as Foscolo, Shelley, Stendhal and Rossini, were guests here.
