The Residence Celeste blog

This is where we put the answers to the questions we get most often before a booking. Not lists of things to see — those are everywhere. The practical things that decide how a holiday turns out: how far a ferry landing really is, when it is worth coming, what you can do without driving.

22 July 2026 · 4 min read

Getting around Lake Como without a car: what you can really reach on foot and by ferry from the west shore

Guidebooks say you can do Lake Como by ferry. True — but it depends entirely on where you sleep. Here are the real distances, measured along the walking route rather than as the crow flies, plus the part nobody usually mentions: when you still want a car.

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