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25. Varenna
26. Villa Monastero
27. Vezio
28. Piona
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Gardaland
What's on out of town
Chiaravalle
Morimondo
Certosa di Pavia
Vigevano
Sabbioneta
Como
Lake Como Route1. The Lake
2. Cernobbio
3. Villa Erba
4. San Vincenzo
5. Villa dʼEste
6. Moltrasio
7. Villa Passalacqua
8. SantʼAgata
9. Laglio
10. Isola Comacina
11. Ossuccio
12. Lenno
13. Santo Stefano
14. Battistero
15. Balbianello
16. Mezzegra
17. Tremezzo
18. Villa Carlotta
19. Menaggio
20. Santo Stefano
21. Bellagio
22. San Giacomo
23. Villa Serbelloni
24. Villa Melzi
25. Varenna
26. Villa Monastero
27. Vezio
28. Piona
Stresa
Crespi d'Adda
Gardaland
What's on out of town
Santo Stefano is the destination No. 20in our visiting tour on Lake Como. A list of destinations is available, each with an audioguide. We travel northbound, from Como to Piona.
Menaggio Via Annetta e Celestino Lusardi
mapWith your back to the waterfront, from Piazza Garibaldi you can see the street that leads to the church of Santo Stefano.
The origins of the church of Santo Stefano date far back in time but countless restoration projects have resulted in extensive changes, not least in the building's direction: it now faces the opposite way to before.
The interior was frescoed in 1899 by Giovanni Maria Tagliaferri, a painter from Pagnona, a village in the mountains overlooking Lake Como. The altar is surrounded by 18th-century copper medallions depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary.
Above the altar, at the head of the left aisle, is a copy of a Madonna by Bernardino Luini, a Renaissance painter who was profoundly influenced by the work of Leonardo da Vinci. The original was handed over to the French at the end of the 18th century in return for the promise to move the Pretura (the local magistrate's court) from Tremezzo to Menaggio, and is now kept in the Louvre.
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