Overview
It filled with Liberty-style villas at the turn of the twentieth century, when Milanese industrialists built summer houses up here for the air, and several survive along the ridge road. The Volta lighthouse, a beacon built in 1927 for the centenary of Alessandro Volta’s death, stands half an hour’s walk further and can be climbed. Paths continue along the ridge for hours, and the village is the trailhead for most of them.
Highlights
Ride up in the late afternoon and walk to the lighthouse for the light on the lake, then take the last funicular down. The queue for the funicular is longest between eleven and two, and the ticket office sells returns which do not save the wait. In winter the village is often above the fog that fills the lake basin.