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THE “VIA REGINA”
The Strada Regina (Queen’s Way) is now actually a set of roads (even three or four) that sometimes run parallel, and sometimes intersect and overlap, almost creating a "palimpsest" on the area, thus presenting different urban and economic landscapes even to the untrained eye
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THE “VIA REGIA”
Stretching from Como to Bellagio halfway up the lake, the Via Regia (King’s Way) skirts some of the most picturesque villages of the lake. They all share the common feature of being formed by the many settlements scattered on the dorsal slopes of the "Lario Triangle", and almost all have some kind of lakeside “annex” to secure a mooring point
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THE MIDWAY
The lake has been used since ancient times as the primary communication route joining up all the settlements strewn along its shores: still, it is very difficult to say how trade used to take place. No pre-Roman find pointing to lake navigation has survived to the present day, and neither
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