"Everything is noble and delicate (on Lake Como), everything speaks of love, nothing recalls the ugliness of civilizat…"

"No sound of wheels or hoof-beat breaks / The silence of the summer day, / As by the loveliest of all lakes / I while …"

"That there is a God, when you look at the sky of Lake Como, is evident. (Robin Williams)"

"I am beside the lake (Como), / The lonely lake which used to be / The wide world of the beating heart / When I was, l…"

"And dimly seen, a tangled mass. Of Walls and woods of light and shade. Stands beckoning up the Stelvio pass Varenna, …"

"And, (Lake) Como! thou, a treasure whom the earth / Keeps to herself, confined as in a depth / Of Abyssinian privacy.…"

"In the past, the rich bought houses and villas only on the hills of Lake Como, as Pliny did with Villa Commedia, in o…"

"[...] at eventide when everything seems to slumber , and the music of the vesper bells comes stealing over the water,…"

"Lake Como [...] is not like Lake Geneva surrounded by large fields well delimited and cultivated with the best system…"

"When you write the story of two happy lovers, place them on the shores of Lake Como. I do not know a district more ma…"