Griante, Lombardy

A day on the lake. We bought tickets enabling us to use the ferry any time we liked during the day to visit the towns within the central Lario Triangle.

Some extras:
Sasso San Martino and The Grand Hotel Britannia Excelsior, Cadenabbia.
Down at The Case, after returning from Italy, rummaging for new stuff among the second hand books (proceeds to RNLI), I came across 'Francesco's Italy', a BBC book written by Francesco de Mosta. On page 49 I read 'Mark Twain wrote appreciatively in 1869 in 'The Innocents Abroad':
'From my window here in Bellaggio [sic], I have a view of the other side of the lake now, which is as beautiful as a picture. A scarred and wrinkled precipice rises to a height of eighteen hundred feet; on a tiny  bench half way up its vast wall, sits a little snowflake of a church, no bigger than a martin-box, apparently.'

That little snowflake half way up would have to be the Santuario Della Madonna delle Grazie di San Martino, seen in this extra. Was his description of it as a 'martin-box' pure coincidence?

The surge for the ferry, Varenna, Lombardy
Villa Monastero, Varenna, Lombardy
Via Riva dei Marmisti, Varenna, Lombardy
The Town and Promontory, Bellagio, Lombardy