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Lake Como is the only Italian lake with a genuinely international second-home market. The villa shore from Cernobbio through Moltrasio to Bellagio changes hands privately and rarely, the hotels take July and August bookings a year out, and Passalacqua at Moltrasio is one of only seventeen hotels in the country holding three MICHELIN Keys. Arrivals come by car from Linate or by helicopter, not by train.

What pays for that is made elsewhere in the region, in family engineering and textile firms across the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Monza. It shows in where the best tables are: Da Vittorio stands in a village outside Bergamo, Dal Pescatore in farmland near Mantua. High-class companions are active in Como, Bergamo, Brescia, Monza and Sirmione on Garda as readily as in Milan, and nothing in the region is far from anything else.

North again, the Valtellina took the alpine half of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics in February, the men's downhill at Bormio and the snowboard and freestyle parks at Livigno, and both towns came out of it with upgraded lifts and new hotel stock. Livigno is a duty-free zone, which has always shaped who goes there in winter.