A LAKE'S PROGRESS

 Emily Backus - Financial Time

“Long ago, roughly 2,000 years before the film star George Clooney famously bought a pair of villas on Lake Como, Roman patricians and high ranking officials took refuge from congested urban life on these steep, wooded shores. Virgil knew of the lake. Como native and 2nd-century Roman statesman Pliny the Younger built two country villas here: one in Lenno and one in Bellagio, which he called "Comedy" and "Tragedy", according to a guide book. Over the centuries, European rulers, industrialists and cultural luminaries have followed, enjoying homes among fishing villages and silk-makers.

Lake Como is the lucky, long side of a wishbone-shaped lake, the shorter, eastern leg of which is Lake Lecco. Located about an hour by car from Milan, the lake, or at least its southern half, also has unusually beautiful natural assets. Its narrow breadth and the surrounding hills imbue it with a dramatic intimacy not found in its beautiful sister lakes, which sashay in irregular file from east to west along the borderlands of northern Italy and southern Switzerland. The Romantic poet Shelley said: "This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty," while Wordsworth called it "a treasure which the earth keeps to itself.

As a result, a succession of elite European landowners has left it with a legacy of stately villas and manicured gardens, taming its landscapes with grand and elegant domesticity. But there are also colonies of humbler homes and busy towns around the water”  By Emily Backus

“Location” prices the real estates, of course: villages in the South coasts, Eastern and Western, are actually much more expensive than other lake Como areas. One of the reason is that they are closer to Como downtown services, but never understimate the other areas where properties are proposed at lower prices. in the future they  will surely give an appreciable profit.

A bright spot on Valle Intelvi: this green valley is located on the mountain behind Argegno village. In this area it s possible to buy  attractive properties attractively priced..

Valle Intelvi  Region is located in a key position among water and mountains, Como and Lugano and both lake shores.