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    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      HTSIHTSI’s 12 top picks from a year in travel
      Lake Como’s latest hotel is an 18th-century gem

      An exclusive look at Villa Passalacqua

    • Wednesday, 28 September, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Lake expectations: the five-star hotel causing ripples in Como

      Patricia Urquiola’s creation is piquing the interest of design aficionados and longstanding Como visitors

    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2016
      World
      Milan warns on tents for migrants sent back by French and Swiss

      Increase in arrivals as neighbouring countries take more aggressive attitude towards asylum seekers

    • Monday, 14 September, 2015
      Global property
      Critics brand Renzi’s latest tax cut a political ploy

      Italian PM’s homes policy is less a stimulus and more a bid to attract centrist voters

    • Friday, 18 April, 2014
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      With a view to improvement

      ‘Being at 1,800 metres in the Alps helps give me a broader view of what’s going on in the world’

    • Friday, 4 April, 2014
      Life & Arts
      Price of waterfront homes on Italy’s Lake Como remain buoyant

      Scarcity of large lakeside properties in perfect condition has kept values high

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      Further room for improvement

      The Swiss and Japanese are annoyingly similar in their obsession with constant renovation

    • Saturday, 3 April, 2010
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      That’s my kind of town

      Part of the magic of Italy is that everything tends to be pretty much as you left it the year, decade or century before

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