More about the location:
The apartment is one of five in the Residenza Bellavista. You can drive up to the entrance to unload your car. We recommend you park in the free communal car park 50 metres away. The apartment has a separate entrance with seven steps down to the porch. It is 50 metres from the railway, but the local slow train passes once an hour (5:30 am to 11 pm) for less than 20 seconds and is not loud. A 10-minute walk down the mountainside is the nearest beach (pebble), food store and bakery, restaurant and Fiumelatte railway station. There is a beautiful pebble beach a 10-min drive away at Lierna and a sandy 'Lido' at Varenna and at Bellano. Local restaurant il Crotto di Pino is steps away from the apartment. The nearest supermarket (Eurospin) and nearest petrol station are in Bellano. The best patisserie nearby is Cafe Loro in Bellano. There is a mini fish market in Mandello (not every day of the week, check opening times) and a fruit and vegetable market on Saturday mornings in Lecco.
Situated on famous hiking trail:
The apartment is situated on one of Como’s oldest and most famous hiking trails, Il Sentiero del Viandante or the Wayfarer’s Path, which dates to Roman times and spans the lake’s eastern shore and offers hikers many superb views over Lake Como and the surrounding mountains. Fiumelatte means Milky River and is named after Italy's shortest river which mysteriously dries up here in some months. It was first mentioned 500 years ago in the writings of Leonardo da Vinci who explored it to find the source. The best shorts walks from the apartment are to the source of the Fiumelatte (1 hour there and back), to Castello di Vezio and back via Varenna (90 minutes) and the shortest is a circular walk around Fiumelatte-Pino is via Via Roslina then up the mountainside and along to the opposite end of the village, then back via Strada Vechia, which is a beautiful old path with great views over Lake Como.
Getting there :
If you come by car, take the SS36 motorway from Milan to Lecco and then take the road to Sondrio via Varenna. Turn off after the second tunnel under Lecco to the right on to the SP 72 and Fiumelatte-Pino is the village before you reach Varenna and there is a signpost to 'Loc. Pino'. To get to there without a car, take a bus or train from the airport to Milan central railway station then the Milano-Colico train to Varenna. The apartment is a 35-minute walk from Varenna railway station. You can also take a train from Milan central railway to Lecco where you can change trains for Fiumelatte. You can also drive to Menaggio and take the car ferry to Varenna, which is a short drive to Residenza Bellavista in Fiumelatte-Pino.
Ski:
The three skiing areas of St. Moritz in Switzerland are just 90 minutes drive from Fiumelatte-Pino. The slopes of Italy's western Trentino and Lombardy are between 90 minutes and 2 hours drive away. The main ski resorts in this area are: Paganella, Va di Sole, Madonna di Campiglio, Pinzolo, Passo Tonale, Ponte di Legno, Aprica, Bormio and Livigno.
Golf:
There is a golf course on the opposite side of the lake just outside Menaggio.
marks the location of the property in Lake Como
