Como's branch
This small territory is able to offer a beautiful landscape with such different aspects, more than in any other place in Italy. In fact we come across from the brianzola Plain to the PreAlps that embrace the first basin of the branch of Como. It is an inimitable environmental belt, since the prehistorical age, mankind has understood how much was gradevole to live in this area, and after the Renaissance, was destination of travellers, searchin for the lost paradise, but above all for historical and real characters, writers, poets, men of letters and philosophers.
The sides of the river basin of Como are tacked from many villas, encircled from luxuriant parks that, with their royalty, are evidence of the fascination that the country of Como exerted during the years.
Towns composed by stone houses characterize these shores, that have a bewitched aspect, and where time seems to have stopped. The most important city is obviously Como, that gives the name to the lake.
It was built more than two thousand years ago by the Romans, and nowadays it is the center of the country where history, art, culture, cohabit with the industry and the commerce in a scenery to which the lake, with its continuous renew of colours and atmospheres during the different seasons, gives a frame of particular beauty.
The city of Como is famous for its silks too; well-known for its fineness and originality. Another handicraft in the neighbouring towns, exactly in the city of Cantù "city of furniture ", is the one of the wood.
Furnish of fine workmanship are made with more or less valuable woods, in order to satisfy every requirement.
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