Bellagio
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| Comune di Bellagio | |
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 Municipal coat of arms |
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| Country |  Italy |
| Region | Lombardy |
| Province | Como (CO) |
| Mayor | dott.ssa Silvia Tresoldi in Cerati |
| Elevation | m |
| Area | km² |
| Population | |
| - Total | |
| - Density | /km² |
| Time zone | CET, UTC+1 |
| Coordinates | |
| Gentilic | bellagini (it.); belagìn (west.lmo.); cujùn (west.lmo. traditional gentilic); there is also a traditional gentilic for every frazione' |
| Dialing code | 031 |
| Postal code | |
| Patron | Saint Steven |
| - Day | December 26 |
| Website: www.comune.canzo.co.it | |
Bellagio is a town and commune in the province of Como, on Lake Como in Italy. It has long been famous for its setting at the intersection of the three branches of the Y-shaped lake. Bellagio is situated at the tip of the peninsula separating the lake's two southern arms, with the Alps visible across the lake to the north. Located in Como province in Lombardy, its population in 2001 was 2,945. It is popular with tourists and also contains many weekend homes for the wealthy of Milan.
[edit] Transport
Bellagio is accessible by narrow and windy roads from Como and Lecco, or by pedestrian ferry from Menaggio and Varenna. A train station at Varenna, combined with the boat trip across the narrow lake, provides convenient access.
[edit] Literary references
A visit to Bellagio served as the occasion for American poet Amy Clampitt's long poem Rain at Bellagio. The poem runs to ten pages in her Collected Poems. An excerpt reads:
- Out on the lake a white traghetto, moving
- almost without pause from one shore to the other,
- a punctual amphibious spider, skeins
- into one zigzag the descending
- clatter from the campaniles of Bellagio,
- of Varenna and Cadenabbia, as though reining
- the fragments of experience into one process —
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