Lenno

Lenno is a small village on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy. It is located about  north of Milan and about  northeast of Como. Lenno is on a small bay of Lake Como called the Golfo di Venere (Bay of Venus).

Ancient Romans started the village. Julius Ceasar invited 500 Greeks to come live in the village. The Greeks planted olive trees all around Lenno. The historian Paolo Giovio (1483-1552) and the geographer Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) wrote that Pliny the Younger had a villa in Lenno. It was called  the Comedy villa.Bagot, Richard (1912). The Italian Lakes, pp. 107-108. A. & C. Black

Today, the village is popular with tourists. It has mansions, hotels, restaurants, and a small harbor. In 2014, Lenno was joined with three other nearby villages (Mezzegra, Ossuccio and Tremezzo) to make a single municipality called Comune di Tremezzina.Il Giorno (8 January 2014). "Fusione Comuni, 9 nuove amministrazioni al voto il 25 maggio". Retrieved 27 November 2017 .

Twin towns
Lenno was twinned with:
  Lemnos, Greece

References

Category:Former municipalities of Como