"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…"

"You, Lario (Lake Como) very great. (Virgil)"